Farming Today This Week

As cloned meat enters the UK food chain, Caz Graham visits a dairy farm in Staffordshire to explore how cattle breeding relies on technology. Professor Andrew Leitch from City University London tells Farming Today the world must embrace cloning technology or mass starvation may result.

The Food Standards Agency has launched an enquiry into how meat and milk from the offspring of cloned cows has entered the food chain. Tim Smith, its Chief Executive, tells Farming Today that despite this, legislation to prevent cloned food arriving in the UK from parts of the world where cloning is commonplace is secure.

But the Soil Association warns that animal welfare and consumer suspicion means that the cloning of food animals shouldn't happen in the UK.

Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Melvin Rickarby.