The Threat Of Cloned & Genetically Modified Meat Is Creeping Back

A few months ago (back in November 2025) the Canadian public was outraged when the media reported that Health Canada was allowing cloned beef onto supermarket shelves WITHOUT clear labelling. In the end Health Canada backed down and amended the policy to ensure sufficient labelling so people would at least be aware of what they were buying. This was hailed as a victory, and we at Canada Health Alliance even included it in our ‘Wins of the Week’ at the time.

Yet, maybe we were duped… At the time I was surprised that Health Canada caved to public pressure so quickly, because when it comes to things like the outcry around vaccine injury and the lack of disclosure around informed consent, five years later they are still resolutely ignoring us.

So why did they so quickly back-down when it came to the labelling of cloned meat?

Well, according to Shawn Buckley, the President of the Natural Health Product Protection Agency (the NHPPA), who has been championing the cause of public health in Canada for decades (literally), this was all part of their planned strategy to “manufacture consent.” And sadly we all fell for it!

According to Shawn: “Health Canada and the mainstream media are colluding to manipulate Canadians into eating cloned meat. First, cloned meat that is strictly labeled and then later after years of use when we’re comfortable with it … they’ll take labeling away.”

The question is why? Why all this drama and focus on the labelling of cloned meat? Is it because we believe we have a right to know what we are eating, so the labelling is a critical part of our freedom of choice and informed consent, especially given how important our food is to our overall short, medium and long term health and wellbeing? Sure, that is an important point. But is it THE most important point?

If we step back for a second let’s think about what the most important issue here really is. It shouldn’t be about having correct labelling on cloned meat, it should be about not being fed cloned meat in the first place! Yet we have been cleverly distracted to now accept cloned meat – as long as it has proper labelling.

The level of psychological manipulation is extreme and shocking, especially as it is being done by Health Canada, a government department whose supposed role is specifically to safeguard our health and wellbeing.

Shawn Buckley goes on to explain this in greater detail saying, “Manufacturing consent is where basically the media takes control of the narrative and in this case they’re focusing on a ‘decoy issue’ and that decoy issue is that there should be labeling.

How it works (as explained by Corey Huntsburger of Talk Truth) is as follows… Let’s say you’re Health Canada and you want to get Canadians eating cloned meat without labeling. Well, you know that if you just came out and said, “We’re going to allow cloned meat into the food supply without strict labeling,” almost certainly Canadians would say no.

Health Canada can’t risk that. Remember, the goal is to get you eating cloned meat without labeling. So, how do you get Canadians to that point? Well, you have to manufacture this consent, and you do that by avoiding the real issue. The real issue is, should we be doing this in the first place and should we be eating cloned meat, whether it is labelled or not.

So, to manufacture the “consent” you need, is you get everyone looking at a different issue and you get them emotional about that different issue and you make them feel like they’re looking at the real thing.”

It is a classic short term ‘distraction’ exercise to achieve a long term goal. Because now we have essentially accepted and given our “consent” for cloned meat to enter the food chain, with just the flimsy proviso that it has proper labelling.”

Shawn goes on to explain, “Remember, the real issue is, should we be eating cloned meat? It is not about whether that cloned meat should be labelled or not. Sure, it’s worse without labeling. But this is the decoy issue.

I challenge you, find me one mainstream media report saying it’s unsafe or even questioning the safety of cloned meat. They’re either assuming it’s safe or saying Health Canada says it’s safe or “this expert,” (it’s usually the same one), says it’s safe. I mean, they’re not saying there’s a danger here. They’re saying, “there’s nothing to see here, citizen. It’s safe. But shouldn’t there be labeling?” And Canadians who are being manipulated into not asking the right question, are all piping up, “Well, of course there should be labeling. My gosh, there should be labeling. Isn’t this outrageous? They’re going to allow cloned meat without labeling!” All we’re looking at is whether there should be labeling, which isn’t the real issue.

So, what Health Canada does is they announce that cloned meat won’t be classed as a novel food anymore because if it is they’d have to prove it’s safe and that can’t happen. So they say, “But we’re going to require strict labeling.” And everyone said, “We won. We won. Let’s get the historians out. Has it ever happened ever before where the citizens actually won? They were going to do this without labeling and now we’ve got labeling!”

We’ve been totally manipulated because the real issue is, and always has been, should we be doing this at all?

Well, of course, we shouldn’t be doing this at all. The mainstream media doesn’t mention the fact that cloned meat is strictly banned in the European Union. There’s 27 European Union member countries and not in a single one of them are you allowed to eat cloned meat. They’ve actually banned the importation of cloned meat for safety reasons and for animal welfare reasons.

The fact of the matter is that there’s not a single human safety study with regards to the health risks of consuming cloned meat. There’s not really any meaningful animal safety data either. They know there’s serious known risks of genetic defects, anatomical defects and excess chemicals in the animals – and that is in the very few animals that do actually manage to grow big enough to eat. They need more hormones and antibiotics and drugs just to survive. Well, nobody mentions that. It’s all so manipulated it’s crazy.”

The bottom line is that there is no advantage to cloned meat: It is untested, there are serious anticipated health risks and it’s more expensive.

Yet we appear to have been distracted into giving “manufactured consent” for cloned meat to be introduced into the Canadian food chain because the media got us to fixate on labelling, which, no doubt, will quietly disappear over the next few years anyway, likely without us even noticing…

Our lesson in all this is not to be duped by distraction again, and to keep our focus on the real issues that have the bigger impact on our health, not the media-hyped side-line issues.

What Canadians Need to Know About Cloned Meat

• Cloned meat has arrived — Without the science Canadians expect
• Mandatory Exposure: Without labelling, Canadians cannot avoid cloned meat.
• Manufactured Consent: Media coverage focused only on “labelling,” not safety — shifting public attention away from banning cloned meat entirely.
• Zero Human Data: No human trials exist on cloned beef or pork.
• Flawed Animal Evidence: There are no animal studies for cloned pork and only short-term rat studies for cloned beef.
• EU Safety Standard: The European Union bans cloned meat and is proposing a ban on the cloning of farm animals.
• Hidden Risk Pathways: Cloned animals are a gateway to introducing genetically engineered traits, pharmaceuticals, and biochemicals into the food system.
• Regulatory Double Standard: Natural health products face drug-like scrutiny, while cloned meat, with all its risks and unknowns faces none.

We would like to thank Shawn Buckley and the NHPPA for raising concern and awareness about this important, and misunderstood issue which will have a significant impact on the long term health of non-vegetarian Canadians.

The sources for this article include:
https://nhppa.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Manufacturing-Consent-Discussion-Paper-NHPPA.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru_euYIWdu4