Cloned meat enters the market … but you would never know

Cloned meat enters the market ... but you would never know

The Big Story discusses how important accurate food labels are to Canadian consumers, and whether…

CityNews Toronto

By Analysis by The Big Story podcast

Would you want to know if the food you were eating came from a cloned animal?

New Health Canada regulations set to kick in next year don’t require beef and pork manufacturers to label whether or not their products were from cloned animals. After consultations with the general public and stakeholders, Health Canada decided to remove cloned meat from their ‘novel foods’ category.

Cloned animals are made through assisted reproductive processes such as artificial insemination. Sometimes, the cloned animals’ offspring is what makes it to the meat counter…