Is animal meat asexual reproduction safe?

The British Food Standards Bureau has informed scientists of their conclusion that the milk and meat of their asexual and female reproductive animals are safe to use as food.

In particular, experts from the UK Independent Advisory Council on new foods and their processed products also confirm that there is no significant difference between meat and milk with asexual reproductive animals. normal livestock.

Scientists claim that animal meat reproduction asexually is safe. (Illustration).

In the course of the work, the scientists studied and collated the flesh of two cows born by American asexual reproduction with calves taken from a cattle farm in London. The Bureau of Food Standards said the calf was the son of one of eight children born in England from embryos sent by asexual cows in the United States.

According to the BBC , Chairman of the Advisory Council Andrew Wardz stated ' The conclusions of the Council have confirmed that the meat and milk of asexual reproductive animals as well as their later generations are almost identical to those of the same species. Raising them by traditional methods so, in terms of food safety standpoint, eating these products does not meet any risk '.

We remember that in the United States as well as in some South American and Asian countries, farms consider breeding of asexual animals such as cows, sheep and pigs to be legal. But on European farms, to bring products from asexual reproduction to the market, the law is more stringent, so special permission from the authorities is required.

In these countries, experts still believe that asexual reproduction does not only adversely affect the health of the animal itself, but it does not know in the long run what effects it can have on human health. Consume products from them.

Currently, the EU is proposing to prohibit the import of meat and milk from asexual reproduction into Europe. The head of the British Food Standards Bureau said in December this there will be a plenary meeting of EU countries and where the British side will discuss this issue.