Hold the clone....

Cloning is in the news again following the decision of the US Food and Drugs Administration that meat and milk from cloned animals can be sold without special labelling. Some people have an instinctive dislike of cloning, but here's the question for today - if a cloned animal mates and has offspring, are those offspring clones? Because this is the reality of what is being suggested - you won't find meat and milk directly from cloned animals on sale. What will happen is that these cloned animals will be used for breeding, and it is the meat and milk from their offspring, and in turn their offspring, and so on down the line, that will appear in the shops. So will there really be any difference?