Responding to consumer queasiness about eating meat and drinking milk from cloned animals, and frustrated by continued delays in the government approval process, America’s two largest cloning companies will today, according to this story, roll out a voluntary program aimed at helping shoppers avoid food from clones.
Meat and milk from the offspring of clones would, however, become part of the general food supply.
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