Cloned cows at Inverness?
The BBC reports on the surprise finding that cloned cows meat has entered the food chain in the UK – and that this is rumoured to have come from a farm near Inverness:
Meat of cloned cow offspring in UK food chain, FSA says
The FSA said it had “traced two bulls born in the UK from embryos harvested from a cloned cow in the US”.
The first was slaughtered in July 2009 and its meat entered the food chain and would have been eaten. There are unconfirmed reports that the animal came from a farm near Inverness.
The second bull was slaughtered on 27 July 2010, but its meat was stopped from entering the food chain, the agency added.
American biotechnology companies are cloning animals that give high yields of milk and meat to use as breeding stock.
As if industrialised farming doesn’t pump enough hormones, antibiotics, and other chemicals into cattle, now someone near Inverness is claimed to be pushing cloned versions as well!
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