Manufacturing Consent | The Dangers of Cloned Meat Being Ignored - Part 9 of 12

In this segment, Shawn Buckley explains why Canada is in the middle of a manufactured consent exercise designed to normalize the consumption of cloned meat—first with labeling, and eventually without it. Shawn walks through Health Canada’s own opinion document and shows how regulators begin with a predetermined conclusion that cloned meat is “safe,” then work backwards to justify that claim. He explains that most cloned animals never survive to maturity due to genetic defects, organ damage, and developmental failures, yet safety claims rely only on the small fraction of animals that survive long enough to be studied. Shawn details how Health Canada uses superficial comparisons, such as limited nutrient equivalence, while ignoring the core risks inherent to cloning itself, including unpredictable genetic abnormalities, increased illness, and the heavy use of hormones, antibiotics, and chemical drugs in cloned animals. He also explains why these risks are never meaningfully addressed in the safety assessment and how similar genetic technologies have already produced unexpected harms in other contexts. The segment concludes by showing how ignoring known dangers is a defining feature of manufactured consent, allowing regulators and media to promote cloned meat while discouraging genuine public scrutiny. Find out more: https://nhppa.org/manufacturing-consent/ Read Shawn’s discussion paper: https://nhppa.org/manufacturing-consent/#discussion-consent Support this work with a donation: https://nhppa.org/donate