Press Release: Europeans are very sceptical about animal cloning for food production, Eurobarometer reveals

A Flash Eurobarometer study, presented by the European Commission on 9 October, 2008, revealed that European citizens have a generally negative perception of animal cloning for food production. The study was carried out to assess citizens' attitudes towards animal cloning. It indicated firstly, that the vast majority of citizens has a good degree of knowledge of what is animal cloning ( eight out of 10 stated correctly that 'cloning is making an identical copy of an existing animal'). Secondly, the study showed that a very high percentage of citizens is negative about cloning for human consumption as 81% felt that the long term effects of animal cloning on nature are unknown while 84% states that we don’t have enough experience about the long-term health and safety effects of using cloned animals for food.