Article: FDA says cloned animals are safe for food, sales won't begin quite yet

More than a decade after scientists cloned the first animal, the U.S. government has decided that meat and milk from clones is safe to eat.

Now, will people buy it?

Consumer anxiety about cloning is serious enough that several major food companies, including the big dairy producers Dean Foods Co. and Smithfield Foods Inc., say they are not planning to sell products from cloned animals.

Also, the industry says most Americans would never eat a cloned animal for sheer economic reasons: At $10,000 (euro6,700) to $20,000 (euro13,400) per cloned cow _ compared with $1,000 (euro670) for an ordinary steer _ they are too valuable. They would be used primarily for breeding, to ...

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