Alarm Spreads in UK over Cloned Beef

Carlos Lujan for the International Herald Tribune

Several outlets have reported outrage in the UK over news that meat from the offspring of a cloned cow had been sold to consumers. The cause for concern does not seem to be the safety of the meat itself, but how this "slipped through the cracks" in a country where this is illegal.

Here in the US, these products have been legal since 2008 without any labels distinguishing cloned strains. But in Britain, where mad cow disease is still fresh in the public's mind -- many fear allowing this will open a Pandora's box of genetically modified organisms for consumption and other uses.


Read the BBC article about the discovery here: 

Meat of second cloned cow offspring 'in UK food chain'