Cloned Meat: Its What's for Dinner

Cloned meat: What is that dinner? "[Clone] involves destroying the nucleus of the egg cell from the initially cloned species, then the nucleus is removed from the cells of the same animal and injected into the egg cells.An animals with the same genetic makeup." (1) It looks yummy. You may soon get Grade A cut beef. Still pork. Or chicken. This idea is enough for you to be a vegetarian.

As cloning research progresses, one day you can meet your wishes. The US government recently decided that it is safe to drink milk and eat meat of cloned animals. This decision raised discussions on human health, animal rights, and the difference between good and evil. Like the same twins, clones are exact genetic copies of each other. The difference is that twins have appeared and were born simultaneously without the participation of scientists. Clones are created in the lab and can be separated for several years. Scientists cloned eleven animals such as sheep, cows, pigs, mice, and horses.

On 28th December 2006, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the consumption of meat and other products from cloned animals. Cloned animal products are said to be indistinguishable from uncloned animals. In addition, the company does not need to provide a label to inform consumers that meat is derived from cloned animals. In 2007, some meat and dairy producers proposed a system to track the movement of all cloned animals in the food chain. However, as of 2013, there is no tracking system, products derived from cloned animals are sold in the US for human consumption.