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Wednesday, 18 February 2009 22:43

Is cloned chicken still organic?

Unless it's a cloned chicken in Canada...

According to new Canadian guidelines released on 13th Feb, 2009, producers won't be able to raise cloned animals in an 'organic' environment and label them as an organic product.

In 2008, U.S. legislation was introduced to ensure that meat or milk from cloned animals could not be labelled as 'organic'.

It all seems a bit odd..
as certainly a cloned animal is not necessarily a genetically engineered one - and hence just as organic as any other.

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written by Ali Greenrow, February 19, 2009 - 11:17 GMT
So... If you raise a chicken organically THEN clone it and raise the clone in an organic method from the egg, it's not organic - right? Strangeness.... :-)

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