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The sale of meat and milk from the offspring of cloned farm animals is set to be backed by EU Commissioners despite mass consumer opposition.

A huge majority of the public is against clone animal farming, according to studies in Britain and across Europe.

Concerns surround the ethics of the process, the welfare of the animals and a lack of research on food safety. However, a leaked report to be discussed by the EU’s College of Commissioners today comes out in favour of food from the offspring of clones.

A new report suggests that the offspring of cloned animalsA new report suggests that the offspring of cloned animals could be consumed 

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One of the most fervent and important debates in modern society is the one surrounding the health effects of wireless technologies. Perhaps no other topic has polarized society so much in recent history, except for the tobacco saga.

While in 1939 the German physician Franz Hermann Muller published the first epidemiological study linking smoking to cancer, and two 1950 articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association linked smoking to cancer, cigarette ads continued for decades, featuring health professionals, babies, and even Santa. It took thousands of scientific studies until establishments that initially adamantly refuted any links admitted to the potential health dangers.

Exposure to wireless technologies has become ubiquitous — through cellphones, wireless Internet, Bluetooth, and other applications. But how much do we know about the impact radio frequency radiation emitted by wireless devices has on biological systems?

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