Conventions are with accustomed challenges, where as change is with unknown. On that premise, the cloned meat and milk to enter the world market is also facing stiff opposition from the conventional thinkers around the globe. After completion of a year long scientific study, the Food and Drug Administration is likely to give clearance for meat and milk from cloned farm animals and their offspring to appear on the super market shelves. If it is approved it would be against the wishes of the US Congress which has recommended the decision should be delayed further to do more research in that area.
New Zealand and Australia have already concluded studies and declared that the end product from the cloned farm animals is safe. Canada and Argentina are expected to approve the same. Even the EU’s food and safety organization would predictably endorse the same through a draft statement in the coming weeks despite the European consumers’ aversion towards agricultural biotechnology. Multiple studies on this field have shown that the chemical composition of those products is virtually identical to that of conventionally bred animals. In a related study in which the rodents fed with cloned meat did not show any ill effects on their health.
The vast majority of clones die either before birth or soon after is because the clones do not have immunity against a variety of deceases compared to that of conventional ones. Of the particular concern, the study further clarifies that it has no relevance in terms of the end product. When broiler chicken entered the food markets there was widespread skepticism, yet it withstood the test of time and contributed immensely to the food needs of mankind.
It may not be understood by the haves but certainly the developing countries were able to feed more mouths, not by catering broiler chicken but taking the pressure out of other food products. Food related illnesses are directly proportional to greed and the cloned animal products would only have similar ill effects on health.