A more detailed article about yesterday's decision to allow food from clones animals: F.D.A. Tentatively Declares Food From Cloned Animals to Be Safe. "Cloning is too expensive to be used to make animals only to then grind them into hamburger or even to milk them. Rather, farmers and breeders are cloning prized livestock so they can then be used for breeding using more conventional means of reproduction...most food from cloning would come from the sexually produced offspring of the cloned animals."
Posted on December 29, 2006
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