I don't have an ethical problem with cloning, and I figure that if the "parent" animal is healthy to eat, then the clone is... well, a clone, and will no doubt be healthy enough to eat, too.

But where the frack is the benefit?

Monoculture has serious problems. It has them in nature, and it has them on ranches. Now we're talking about moving from monoculture in terms of species to monoculture in terms of genotype. So they're all prone to catch the same set of diseases, or have the same tendencies toward cancer, or have the same genetic problem we didn't foresee because we were looking instead at how much muscle tissue grows on their backsides.

For what? So that every cut of meat can taste like every other cut of meat?

This is very, very poor farm policy, regardless of health impacts, and this is why IMO we need some authority that looks at the overall systems to give approval, rather than just looking at the direct health effects to the consumer. The consumer isn't the major point in this -- in the longrun, this is a stupid move for our entire system of agriculture.

Blaarrrrgh.

/rant