Cloned meat could be coming to a grocery store near you — without labels

Would you buy a steak or pork chop that came from a cloned animal? 

In the new year, you might end up doing just that — without even knowing it.

Health Canada has introduced new regulations that will remove cloned meat from the agency’s “novel foods” category, which means meat from cloned animals won’t need to be labelled.

The move raises a whole lot of juicy questions. Is cloned meat safe to eat? Shouldn’t producers be forced to tell us what we’re eating? Do we even need to clone livestock?

Joining us on tonight’s Closer Look to answer all those questions — and a lot more — is Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University.

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