Meat and milk from cloned animals is as safe, FDA says.

This Yahoo news item confirms what we informed om first week of January in the post;
Cow Named Peggy Sue To Receive FDA Clearance.(Cloned Livestock Might Get FDA Clearance)

WASHINGTON - Meat and milk from cloned animals is as safe as that from their counterparts bred the old-fashioned way, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday.
The decision removes the last U.S. regulatory hurdle to marketing products from cloned cows, pigs and goats, and puts the FDA in concert with European food regulators and several other nations.
"The data show that healthy adult clones are virtually indistinguishable" from their counterparts, concludes FDA's 900-plus page safety report.
But for economic reasons, it will be years before many foods from cloned animals reach store shelves. At $10,000 to $20,000 per animal, they're a lot more expensive than ordinary cows.
With FDA's ruling, "If you ask what's for dinner, it means just about anything you can cook up in a laboratory," said Carol Tucker-Foreman of the Consumer Federation of America, who pledged to push for more food producers to shun cloned animals.

The two main U.S. cloning companies, Viagen Inc. and Trans Ova Genetics, already have produced more than 600 cloned animals for U.S. breeders, including copies of prize-winning cows and rodeo bulls.

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Cow Named Peggy Sue To Receive FDA Clearance.(Cloned Livestock Might Get FDA Clearance)

Cloned cows Peggy Sue, right, and Anna Belle, left, are shown on a farm operated by Viagen outside of Austin, Texas in this Oct. 4, 2005 file photo. Meat and dairy producers are promoting a privately-run system to track cloned livestock in an effort to head off consumer concerns as the government prepares to allow food made from cloned animals to enter the market for the first time. (AP Photo/Thomas Terry)

The following article on WSJ left me wondering if we really have a choice!. If people wanted to eat or clone them selves it is fine by me as long as I have a choise not to. But after reading the article, it looks like I and I am sure bunch more will left in a ditch.

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.

According to the same article, Because of the price tag -- cloned cattle cost $15,000 to $20,000 per copy -- most of the cloned animals will be used for breeding, and it will be three to five years before consumers see milk and meat from their offspring. Some animal breeders in the U.S. have already been experimenting with cloning animals. ViaGen Inc., the largest animal-cloning company in the nation, has cloned animals, such as a cow named Peggy Sue.

Read the very informative artical on Wall Street Journal.

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