A Snoozing Pig (photo by Sanjay Pindiyath, courtesy of morguefile.com)

There’s some good news for those of us who do not want food from cloned animals ending up on our dining room tables. Smithfield Foods says it will not produce pork from cloned animals because the technology is “relatively new”.

The Center for Food Safety, a non-profit public interest organization, has stated, “Given the lack of data regarding human health impacts, CFS believes the FDA was premature in pronouncing food from cloned animals to be safe to eat.”

Dean Foods, Stonyfield Farms, Organic Valley, Ben & Jerry's and Straus Family Creamery have previously said they will not to accept milk from cloned cows. Consumer surveys have indicated that the overwhelming majority of Americans want food from cloned animals labeled as such.

To read an article from Food Navigator on the topic go to: Smithfield rejects cloned pork