Brussels, 15/10/2010 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission will, on Tuesday 19 October, propose a five-year ban on animal cloning for human foodstuffs. The Commission's aim in this, a source said, is a Europe-wide ban on “commercial practices which seek to clone animals for meat or milk production”.
Cloning will not, however, be outlawed in the EU when it is for research purposes in medicines and insemination methods for the protection of endangered species. “Cloned animals should...