12/01/06 President Signs Act & Cloning Regs

President signs act and cloning regulations. I'm Greg Martin with today's Northwest Report. These stories and more coming up. President Bush has signed the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act - which expands criminal prohibitions against the use of force, violence and threats involving animal enterprises. The Act also increases penalties for violations of these prohibitions. As defined by the bill - animal enterprises include commercial and academic enterprises that use or sell animals or animal products for profit, food, agriculture, education, research and testing. This definition also includes equine activities such as rodeo, horse shows and similar lawful equine events. The Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent in September. The Food and Drug Administration is expected to release a draft of new regulations that could allow for the sale of meat and milk from cloned animals. The FDA expects to release a draft of the new regulations by year`s end. Only in recent years has cloning technology reached the point where it can be used for cattle and other mammals. Still - at a price of about 20-thousand dollars per animal - cloning is far too expensive to be used to put food on your table. Instead - it will be used to reproduce breeding animals with highly desirable traits. Now here's today's Washington Grange. (GRANGE) That's today's Northwest Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.