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====April Fool's Day joke==== In March 2009, "CyClone Dairy" launched an advertising campaign and a website to promote its milk products, which purportedly came exclusively from cloned cows.<ref name=cyclone>{{cite web|url=http://www.cyclonedairy.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330053234/http://www.cyclonedairy.com/|website=cyclonedairy.com|archive-date=March 30, 2012|title=CyClone Dairy β Perfect Cows. Perfect Milk|url-status=usurped|date=March 30, 2012}}</ref> On April 1, 2009 ([[April Fool's Day]]), Ben & Jerry's announced that it was behind this fake company. Ben & Jerry's had created the tongue-in-cheek hoax to raise awareness of the increasing presence of products from cloned animals within American food<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Paynter |first=Ben |url=https://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/15-11/ff_clonedmeat?currentPage=all |title=Cloned Beef (and Pork and Milk): It's What's for Dinner |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |url-access=limited |access-date=April 2, 2010 |date=October 16, 2007}}</ref> and to campaign for a tracking system of cloned animal products.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ga3.org/campaign/CloneTracking |title=Take Action: Tell Congress to create a tracking system for cloned animals! |website=Ga3.org |access-date=April 2, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100416053210/http://ga3.org/campaign/CloneTracking |archive-date=April 16, 2010 }}</ref> The hoax was revealed on April Fool's Day with the message: "We believe you should have the right to choose which foods you eat β and not to eat cloned foods if you don't want to. And that's why Ben & Jerry's believes we need a national clone tracking system, so people and companies can know where their food is coming from."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.benjerry.com/activism/inside-the-pint/more-about-milk/cow-cloning/ |title=Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream β Cow Cloning |work=Ben & Jerry's |access-date=April 2, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100426190941/http://www.benjerry.com/activism/inside-the-pint/more-about-milk/cow-cloning/| archive-date= April 26, 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>
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