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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11337

18 June 2015
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) food
MEPs say no to cloning of animals for food

Brussels, 17/06/2015 (Agence Europe) - MEPs on the European Parliament's environment and agriculture committees are on the same wavelength as the European Commission, only much more demanding, when it comes to the idea of cloning animals for food.

By a huge majority on Wednesday 17 June (82 votes in favour, 9 against, and 9 abstentions), the MEPs gave a categorical 'no' vote to the cloning of farm animals, the marketing of cloned animals or live cloned embryos and the sale of products, such...

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