Getting Some Clarity on Cloned Meats, their Availability and Safety

What’s happening?
The Canadian public has expressed concern over transparency and consumer choice in the regulation and sale of cloned meats. A recent Global News article (1) was a source leading to this trending topic review by the PEN Team.

 

Cloned meat refers to meat from the cloned offspring that was created by genetic copying of an animal through a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) (2). This creates a genetic twin of a donor animal, that is born and grows up...