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to Heavensoon
Cloned
Cattle In The Human Food Chain
There are few more familiar and pathetic
spectacles than British bumbledom, caught
red-handed in some grotesque piece of
incompetence, burbling its denials of
accountability. Now that the public has become
aware that both milk and meat from cloned cows
and their numerous offspring are apparently
coursing freely through the human food chain,
the stampede for alibis has begun among
officialdom. In the front line is the Food
Standards Agency, set up 10 years ago in panic
reaction to the provoked by the BSE scare. For
48 hours the FSA stoutly maintained that no
milk or meat from cloned animals or their
offspring had ever entered the food chain.
This stance has now been modified (ie totally
discredited), with Tim Smith, the FSA chief
executive, admitting that the agency does not
know how many cloned embryos have entered
Britain and that a three-year-old bull derived
from a cloned animal was slaughtered, sold and
eaten last year.