Eat the Same Cow for the Rest of Your Life
Clone-Generated Milk, Meat May Be Approved
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to rule soon that milk from cloned animals and meat from their offspring are safe to eat, raising the question of whether Americans are ready to welcome one of modern biology's most controversial achievements to the dinner table.Hundreds of cloned pigs, cows and other animals are already living on farms around the country, as companies and livestock producers experiment and await a decision from the FDA.
It'll be really weird when cloned cows drop dead, get ground up into feed, and identical cows end up eating themselves. Scientifically, cloned tissue probably isn't any worse for human health than natural tissue. But why bother? Is there a shortage of cows that we need to clone them?
And if cloned meat gets approved, it begs the question: Why raise cattle when you could clone muscle cells in a vat? (Well, not you, but some large pharmaceutical company.)
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