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Canada Tries Counterfeiting (Cloning) Meat

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Milt Harris ——Bio and Archives--November 29, 2025

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I’m not sure how much any of you have even thought about buying and eating cloned meat, but I can honestly say that I have spent a sum total of zero time thinking about it. I have never seen it in any of the stores that we shop at, and for good reason. Despite FDA approval under certain conditions, cloned meat remains uncommon in grocery stores due to high costs and public skepticism.

That skepticism is precisely why the Canadian government decided to try and pull a fast one on the public by not labeling the meat as being cloned.

In late October, Health Canada quietly approved the removal of labels from foods derived from Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) clones and their offspring. As a result, Canadians purchasing meat at grocery stores would have no way of knowing whether the meat was........

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