The creator of Dolly the sheep has called for farmers to take up cloning as a way of producing cheap food.Professor Keith Campbell believes the country's farms should be populated by superstrong, super-sized offspring of clones.The U.S. expects to be eating clone-farmed burgers, pork and bacon within two years, and supporters of the method say Europe must follow suit.The Daily Mail revealed earlier this year how the daughter of a U.S. clone cow had been born on a British farm for the first time, making Frankenstein Farming a reality.The intention is that the cow-Dundee Paradise-will be used to help breed Britain's future milking cow herds.Professor Campbell said yesterday that this should be the first step to a far wider use of cloned animals to produce food from cattle, pigs, chicken and sheep.Campaigners insist that meat and milk from cloned offspring is identical to the food in supermarkets and should not be labelled.However, any attempt to deny families the right to decide whether they want to eat food produced in this way would be highly controversial.One of the biggest concerns is the high number of clone-animal pregnancies that lead to abnormalities, miscarriages and stillbirths.Even in the most successful cloning systems, twice as many piglets are born dead-around 20per cent-as with existing breeding.The clones could be created from cells taken from the ears of prized animals or even bodies going through a slaughterhouse.Clone-offspring cows would be bigger and able to produce more milk than those from current breeding techniques.Pigs might also be much bigger, leaner or faster growing, so making them easier and cheaper to produce.Professor Campbell, director of animal bioscience at Nottingham University, said cloning is a useful extension of existing selective breeding, which includes artificial insemination and embryo transfer....To read more go to:
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PS:This article gives me the creeps!!!No wonder so many millions are sick with all sorts of "funny" disorders.....Could it be what we eat that causes it???what are we gonna really have for dinner???Nobody knows cause they don't want it labeled!!!!!We are seriously thinking to move to the country and start our own farm,where pigs are pigs and sheep didn't come from some other sheep's ear...EWE,,,,,,,,!!!!!!!!!!
As in the days of Noah...

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