Soon, if the FDA has its way, you might not know whether the frozen pork chops you found in the meat section of Dave’s Supermarket came from Porky – or Porky’s genetically altered clone, Petunia.
Multiple studies by the agency have shown that milk and meat from cloned livestock are no different in chemical make-up than from their natural-born brethren. Rats fed a steady diet of cloned meat showed no health problems. And breeders of the cloned animals say that their meat is actually tastier and healthier, since only the most robust, disease-free animals are cloned…
This article appears in Jan 16-22, 2008.