Health Canada Pauses Plan to Remove Labels on Cloned Meat After Public Outcry

Health Canada Pauses Plan to Remove Labels on Cloned Meat After Public Outcry
Cuts of beef on display at a supermarket in Montreal, in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Ryan Remiorz
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Health Canada has indefinitely suspended plans to eliminate mandatory labelling of foods that come from cloned cattle and swine following considerable public pushback.

The decision follows a wave of objections from activists and the public that Canadians could soon be eating cloned beef and pork products without knowing it.