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"Mr President, personally I am not at all convinced of the necessity, the morality, the safety or the traceability of cloned animals.
As regards necessity, we have, for years, been trying to encourage extensive rather than intensive production, and there are enough ways to ensure natural reproduction, and other ways of guaranteeing a growth in the animal population, if so required. As regards morality, as Mrs Sommer said, if it is morally acceptable to have cloned animals, then it is only going to be a matter of time until it is morally acceptable to have cloned human beings. We have enough oddballs in the world already without cloning more!
Mr Staes mentioned safety, and I agree with him. How can one conclusively say at this stage that the offspring of cloned animals are safe for human consumption? I do not think one can. Finally, on traceability, one of our great achievements in the European Union, as Anne Delvaux said, is that we can trace food from the stable to the table. What are we going to do now: guarantee that we can trace it from clone to home? I do not think we should be doing this. Our aim should be to eliminate cloning, not to facilitate it."@en1
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