FDA permits sale of food from cloned animals.

Long expected news, one headline of many:

Link here.

They permit the sale of food derived from animals born as identical twins, don't they? Those are just natural clones.

Unnatural cloning of animals is a very expensive process. Why would the food industry bother? Ordinary inbreeding is much less expensive.

-Paul W.

If cow 1 is edible and cow 2 is an identical clone, it's edible, too. Just as if it were one of a pair of identical twins.

Cloning livestock is very expensive, so the cloned animal is not eaten; it's used for breeding stock.

We drink wine made from grapes grown on vines propagated from cuttings. How is this any different?

The problem is that people with too little gray matter conflate the ethical issue of cloned humans with cloning of animals. they then have to make up some hysterical rationale as to how it must be bad for you, thus conflating the science of cloning with the science of genetic modification. By this point in the convoluted argument, the birds have eaten the trail of crumbs and they lose track of their logical missteps.