US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible

[Science News]

Coldeagle sends us the news that the US Food and Drug Administration has declared that meat from cloned animals is safe to eat. The agency decided that no labeling is necessary for meat or milk from cloned cows, pigs, or goats or their offspring. (Ironically the FDA didn't include cloned sheep in the announcement, claiming a lack of data, though the very first cloned animal was a sheep named Dolly.) The article notes that a couple of major food suppliers have already decided not to use any products of cloning, and that the groups opposed to cloning in the food chain will now concentrate their efforts on convincing more suppliers to boycott the business of cloning. The FDA noted that their focus groups and other public input indicated that about 1/3 of US citizens do not want food from cloned animals under any circumstances; another 1/3 have no objections; and another 1/3 fall somewhere in between.Read more of this story (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/16/0023213&from=rss) at Slashdot.
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[popowich]

Would you want to eat a cloned steak?

FDA safe doesn't carry much weight with me.

Think of all the darned pill recalls after people spontaneously combust. :laughing6:

I'd like to know if Applebees is serving a cloned steak up for me.

-Raymond