Cloning and You

thesis: there is nothing wrong with eating meat and milk from cloned animals

After about six years of study, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States ruled that meat an dmilk from cloned pigs, cattle and goats (and their subsequent offsprings) are safe. Although many people entertain the idea that products from cloned animals are unnatural in some way, it's literally quite safe (so says years of study). "The public should understand that cloning is just another form of breeding, like artificial insemination that ranchers widely use," Trans Ova President David Faber said.

Cloning animals produces a genetic twin from the subject. If the original subject suffered no problems, then naturally the cloned animal is just as likely to suffer nothing as well. In fact, it's probably more safe to reduce genetic mutation among animals (for some mutations are not wholly beneficial). Most farmers and breeders are pleased with cloning as another breeding tool. This allows them to preserve some of their most prized animals. And the agency has concluceded that cloned animals are born healthy and are no different than non-clones.

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