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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, eight out of ten European citizens consider the cloning of animals for food to be unjustifiable and six out of ten say they would never consume products derived from cloned animals. This data confirms once again that there is not one valid reason to allow the cloning of animals for food.
Authorising the trade in food and products derived from cloned animals must make us all reflect carefully on the consequences of such a choice. To allow today the consumption of meat, milk and cheese from cloned animals could, in the future, mean allowing trade in products which are not healthy and not natural but artificially created in a laboratory. Further, as Mrs Antonescu said a short time ago, we still do not know today if cloning for food purposes really is safe and does not pose risks to human health. We only know that this technique causes suffering, hurt and pain to animals, which is often avoidable.
Traditional production methods and the work of millions of farms which, through hard work and sacrifice, guarantee excellent products every day, are also put at risk by cloned food. So finally, I say ‘no’ to cloned food on our tables but ‘yes’ to a healthy, balanced and – why not, if I may say so – Mediterranean diet."@en1
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