CEI Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. HEALTH

The Food and Drug Administration declares milk and meat from cloned livestock safe to eat.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Food Safety Policy Gregory Conko on the opponents of farm cloning:

“Since Dolly the sheep became the first successfully cloned animal in 1996, thousands of other healthy sheep, cattle and pigs have been born, but critics still claim the process will create monstrous new hybrids. The scary predictions of anti-technology activists have been shown to be nothing more than science fiction.”

2. ENVIRONMENT

A new study chronicles the poor performance of climate models used to predict global warming.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Doug Bandow on how the models come up short:

“What will the world look like in a century? Imagine asking that question in 1900. And in 1800. The world would have changed in so many dramatic ways, that any economic and environmental predictions would have been worthless. That’s the problem that we face with the climate doomsayers. They can spin out scenarios day after day, but there is little reason to believe the underlying economic and other assumptions. So far the computer models have proved inadequate to the task. More research has come forth demonstrating that the models predict more warming than we have so far seen. If they can’t get the last three decades right, why does anyone believe that they will get multiple decades, or longer, in the future right?”

3. TRADE

The European Union imposes minimum prices on salmon imports from Norway.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Journalism Fellow Lene Johansen on the wider implications for international trade:

“What the EU is actually trying to say is that they don’t like that producers are selling below cost. But unregulated markets trend towards no profit at any given time. It should not be abnormal that it bops below once in while. The whole point of the EU was to create a free market where products, people, and capital could move freely. So far I have seen protectionism, market regulation down to a ridiculous level, and now also price regulation.”

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