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EU Backing Cloned Animal Products

Critter News

If they are cloned solely for the products they provide, will it be more difficult to argue for their welfare as living creatures? If this policy is adopted, European farms could be populated by cloned supersize animals used as breeding stock for cows, pigs and sheep that are reared for food. From the Daily Mail.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

10,000 Birds

There are a lot of other large Galliforme birds around the world, and before the Spanish were busy conquering the New World, one of these, from Central Asia most likely, was already being imported as a food product and as live birds into Europe.

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