Inching closer to the future

[debgeisler]

According to today's Wall Street Journal online:

Get ready for a food fight over milk and meat from cloned animals and their offspring.

After more than six years of wrestling with the question of whether meat and milk from them are safe to eat, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to declare as early as next week that they are.

The FDA had asked producers of cloned livestock not to sell food products from such animals pending its ruling on their safety. It isn't clear whether the FDA will lift this voluntary hold.

While many consumer groups still oppose it, the FDA declaration that cloned animal products are safe would be a milestone for a small cadre of biotech companies that want to make a business out of producing copies of prize dairy cows and other farm animals -- effectively taking the selective breeding practiced on farms for centuries to the cutting edge.

This is my cow Bossie, and my other cow Bossie, and my other-other cow Bossie...

Soon, the meat will be grown in a vat.

Comments

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

I think the WSJ is jumping the gun a bit. It is still *way* cheaper to make cows the old-fashioned way. :)