According to the Washington Post, the FDA is millimeters away from approving the widespread sale of cloned meat and milk. Asked whether the FDA had properly evaluated the ethical implications of cloning food for consumption, the FDA's chief of veterinary medicine offered us this reassurance:
"In any case, Sundlof said, the FDA has no authority to make decisions based on ethics concerns. Nor is it inclined to call for labeling of products from clones, as some have demanded. For one thing, clonal meat or milk would be impossible to authenticate, since there is no way to distinguish them from conventional products."
Ah yes, the capable hands of the mass producers. Time to start back up my vegetable garden.
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