FDA Approves Cloned Livestock for Food

Posted by Patrick McDowell in Health News | Comments Off

Our friends over at the Food and Drug Administration stated that they believe food from cloned livestock is just as good as getting food “the old fashioned way.” Personally I don’t exactly see what the big deal here is, whether it is cloned or not, it is still meat. However many people are skeptical about how healthy cloned livestock is.

Although companies have the go-ahead to start, the FDA urges them to wait a bit longer. Not for safety reasons, but marketing. The FDA wants the market to have a chance to ease into the change. The average cloned cow will cost betweek $10,000 and $20,000 – thus it’s safe to say that farmers will be cloning for breeding purposes, letting their offspring be used for meat.