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Question

For most people meat is a necessary part of any meal. But just ask yourself would you still eat it if you knew that it had come from a cloned chicken or pig?

The European Food Safety Authority has so far found no indication（25）______ food products such as milk and meat from cloned animals are less safe than ones from normal animals. However there are still economic and ethical (伦理的) concerns related to (26) ______(eat) cloned animals.

That’s (27) ______ the European Union has launched a proposal to ban the sale and import of food from cloned animals.

First of all cloning is extremely costly. More importantly cloning has a low success rate. It means that many cloned animals won’t survive into adulthood and some (28) ______ die before they are even born. This causes unnecessary suffering among animals and is opposed by animal rights supporters.

While it would make it illegal to sell and import cloned animals the proposal says that (29) ______ sale and import of food from the offspring (后代) of clones would be allowed since they are not considered to be the direct products of cloning. But they are required to be clearly labeled (30) _____ ___customers can choose whether they want them or not.

The proposal (31) ______ (put) to the European Parliament and member states and it is not expected to come into force until 2016.

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