TORONTO, ONTARIO — November 20, 2025 — AvranceCorp Developments premiered AvranceCorp Presents, where guest “The Canadian Food Professor” Dr. Sylvain Charlebois discussed Health Canada and cloned meat, one of the hot topics in the Canadian food and agriculture sector.
Charlebois is the senior director at the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University and is also the co-host of The Food Professor podcast.
“To be honest, I’m a bit surprised by this whole story to be honest,” Charlebois explained to AvranceCorp Presents host Kenai Andrews. “I wrote an op-ed on Oct. 29 so a few weeks ago, basically stating what I was hearing in the industry. Health Canada is about to or has approved the commercialization of meat products, coming from offspring of cloned animals.
“It’s not the cloned animals per se, but its offspring, like babies, essentially.”
“What I was hearing is that Health Canada is considering these products as novel,” Charlebois added. “And when you look at the scientific literature, it is true that if you eat a conventional piece of meat, beef or pork, and a cloned piece of beef or pork, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. It’s true.”
“However, in the era of transparency and consumer trust, I thought that perhaps Health Canada would consider seriously to label these products. Well, it actually got worse. Not only that Health Canada is not looking at enforcing a mandatory rule around labelling for cloned meat, but it’s also not planning to send out a press release for media, to let media know what’s happening.
“Probably because they knew that people would not react appropriately.”
Predictably, the issue has generated a lot of online debate towards Health Canada.
Charlebois discussed several topics of concern to homebuyers, homeowners, and even builders on the episode, including his thoughts on the narrowly passed Canadian federal budget and its impact on the food and agricultural industry.
AvranceCorp Presents airs Wednesdays at 2:00 p.m. ET on the AvranceCorp YouTube channel. Click here to watch the entire episode and for more content.
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