Meat from cloned animals

Just catching up on the recent news. And this article on meat from cloned animals needed some comment. There is one passage that made me angry. The article states:

Advocates of livestock cloning say it will improve the quality of steaks and dairy products by propagating the animals that are disease-resistant, give lots of milk or produce lean and tender meat.

If these are the main reasons given by the companies that would like to sell such products then we simply don't need it. The selection of "better" products is in no way different from what the food industry has been doing for decades now. The process might have been more difficult since breeding is less predictable.

But did it give us food that tastes better? Oranges, apples, meat? Granted, the food I can buy today looks great. Just don't try to eat it...

So why would we need another technique to "improve" our food? Especially if it's cloning, since there is not that much known about the side effects of cloning.

Would really wish they would tighten the rules on GMO in the EU again.

Posted at: 08:49 | Permalink | category: /english/personal/news/science