Friends of the Earth has received responses from three major grocery stores who state that they do not sell products from cloned animals: Albertsons, SUPERVALU, and Harris Teeter. One retailer based in Seattle, PCC Natural Markets, took the lead back in February, 2008 by completely banning all products from cloned animals and their offspring in their stores.
We are still waiting for many more responses. You can help strengthen this action by signing our petition. Each new signature helps increase the pressure on your grocers, which encourages them to ban cloned animals from their stores.
Press Release | Center for Food Safety on Cloned Animals
The FDA has lifted a voluntary ban on allowing cloned animal products from entering the human food supply. Based upon flawed studies, the FDA has claimed that eating meat and dairy from cloned animals or their offspring is harmless to human health.
Cloned animals have a much higher rate of genetic abnormalities than sexually reproduced animals. Most cloned animals die immediately after birth because the intricacies of the cloning process are still not well understood. Dolly, the first cloned sheep, died only six years after her birth of premature arthritis and lung disease. Obviously there are many genetic complications with cloned animals. Why would we want to ingest something that is known to be genetically flawed and diseased?
