Manufacturing Consent | Why Health Canada’s Safety Assessment Fails — Part 10 of 12

In this segment, Shawn Buckley explains why Health Canada’s safety assessment of cloned meat is fundamentally inadequate and why key risks have been ignored. Shawn walks through how Health Canada claims cloned meat is safe while explicitly refusing to assess the very risks that make cloning dangerous, including unpredictable genetic defects, anatomical abnormalities, and increased use of hormones, antibiotics, and other drugs. He explains that Health Canada’s assessment ignores the reality that most cloned animals never survive to maturity and relies only on data from the small fraction that do. Shawn compares this approach to evaluating seatbelts while refusing to consider car crashes, illustrating how the core danger is deliberately excluded from analysis. He also explains that Health Canada relies on limited nutrient comparisons and selectively cites U.S. regulatory conclusions while failing to mention that the European Union has banned both cloned meat and the cloning of farm animals entirely. Shawn outlines what a reasonable safety process would actually require, including large-scale, long-term animal studies, ethical human trials, screening for genetic defects and drug residues, and post-market surveillance—none of which currently exist. He concludes by warning that Canadians are being asked to accept cloned meat without evidence of safety and urges viewers to recognize this as part of a broader manufactured consent process. 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