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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 21:56:07 -0700
From: Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net>
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Subject: Vatican against human cloning
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Vatican calls for worldwide halt to human cloning
Agence France-Presse
VATICAN CITY (June 24, 1997 12:08 p.m. EDT) - The Vatican launched an
attack Tuesday on human cloning and called for a worldwide halt to such
practices.
The Vatican's academy for life said such a development risked becoming a
"tragic parody of the omnipotence of God."
It said cloning could pervert the fundamental relations of humanity --
"a woman could be the twin sister of her mother, not have a biological
father and be the daughter of her grandfather."
It noted there had already been suggestions for cloning based on
replicating geniuses, people of exceptional beauty, selecting
individuals who were healthy and free from genetic illnesses, and the
possibility of choosing the sex of children.
The Vatican warned against the promotion of the idea that a handful of
people "could have total domination over the existance of others, to the
point of biologically programming their identity, selected through
arbitrary criteria or for pure exploitation."
It said cloning risked "developing the conviction that the value of a
man or a woman does not depend on his or her personal identity, but only
on selectable biological qualities."
The Vatican warned cloning violated two fundamental human rights --
equality and non-discrimination.
However, the Vatican said similar experiments on plants and animals
should be encouraged "providing the rules of defending animal rights are
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Britain Warns EU on Meat Handling
LUXEMBOURG (AP) -- Britain warned Tuesday that it would block imports of beef from the European Union by midsummer, if the EU fails to tighten its meat processing and inspection standards.
At a meeting of EU farm ministers, Britain's Agriculture Minister Jack Cunningham said beginning July 22, the government would apply to meat imports from elsewhere in the 15-nation bloc the same strict standards that have been placed on British beef producers.
Britain has faced strict oversight of it beef production since last year, when dozens of British cattle were struck by an outbreak of BSE -- bovine spongiform encephalopathy -- or mad cow disease.
A possible link was established between the disease and a fatal brain ailment in humans.
Specifically, Cunningham said he wants certain animal tissue banned from use as food or animal feed. The proposal mirrors one made last week by the EU executive Commission, which cited weak anti-BSE controls across the EU.
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 10:45:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: **** <dolphins@pgh.nauticom.net>
To: Pat Fish <pfish@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>
Cc: Miyun Park <miyun@pcrm.org>, ar-news@envirolink.org, veg-news@envirolink.org
