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"Mr President, as a UKIP MEP I really do not want to see any more EU legislation on anything at all. We do not need EU legislation on what British farmers can do and on what British consumers can eat – but ‘British’ consumers is the key word: it is up to them. If British consumers do not want to eat clones and the products of clones, they can make their wishes known to the retailers, as they did about battery chickens 40 or 50 years ago. The retailers can then incorporate non-cloning into their assurance schemes and this will guarantee that there are more British products on British supermarket shelves. That is the way to approach it.
In any case, I do not think cloning is going to catch on to any great degree for two reasons. The first is that it assumes perfection – that you have ‘got there’ – when in fact there is always somebody somewhere who will produce something better, and the clone becomes redundant. The second reason I do not think it will catch on is because of the difficulties involved. We have heard about the deformities and mortality. These represent costs, and it is quite likely these costs will outweigh any benefit of cloning.
Finally, I would like to say that we should never dismiss a technology out of hand. I can visualize a scenario where cloning might be quite useful. Imagine a livestock disease sweeps across Europe from Asia, most of European livestock are naive to the infection, but a few will survive it. These can be cloned and thus you can protect the species."@en1
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