European Parliament Toughens Draft Ban on Animal Cloning
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The European Parliament voted for a permanent ban on the cloning of all farm animals, the import of cloned livestock and the sale of food from such animals and their offspring, setting up a potential clash with national governments in Europe.
The European Union assembly on Tuesday tightened a 2013 proposal by EU regulators that would provisionally prohibit the cloning of some animals -- cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and horses -- and the sale of animal clones and embryo clones. The proposal two years ago from the European Commission, the EU’s regulatory arm, was less stringent also because it stopped short of covering the offspring of cloned animals.