Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Cloned meat a step nearer US menus: "America moved a step closer to serving meat and milk from cloned animals or their progeny yesterday when the government's food regulation agency said they would be as safe to eat as conventional foods.
"The finding means that food products derived from animal clones are likely to be as safe as corresponding products from non-clones, or as safe as foods that we eat everyday," the study says. It does not address animal welfare, environmental safety, or ethical questions. "
Likely. That's the key word here. Cloned meat is likely to be as safe as non-cloned meat. That's a pretty low standard, and yet it opens to door for wholesale contamination of livestock DNA with cloned genes.
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