Well, there it is, right here on Daily Kos as an ad. An advertisement for milk from cloned cows. If you go to the website, you get what purports to be the first dairy to offer milk from cloned cows.
The quotes on the site from "people" are so over-the-top, though, that it immediately becomes obvious that the whole thing is a hoax. Plus there is no contact information of any kind.
So that gets me to thinking, who is behind this? They'd have to be well-funded to be placing web ads in various places. This appears to be some sort of backlash from the FDA's January declaration that cloned animals are safe to eat.
So who would want to make people afraid of science and technology by purposely extrapolating out to a ridiculous endpoint that would never happen? My first guess was Religious Right. I suppose PETA or some organicophile group could also be behind it, but then I'm thinking it would be funnier. Usually the funnier the snark, the further left it leans. (ooh, could that be skralyx's Law???)
Milk from cloned cows, let's just clarify, would be a horrific market failure. The website says that "We’re so proud that our milk comes from cloned cows, we say it right on the label." Guess how many people would want that product? Like, 3. Oh, and it would cost $500,000 a gallon, so that'd be another entry barrier. And there'd be nothing wrong with any of it - the public would have been informed clearly of what was inside and summarily rejected it.
Plus, the cat's already out of the bag. We can clone. Clones have been made, and the Earth did not implode. I mean, they could have done better than this - why not scare people with cloned armies of zombies eating all our babies? That'd be a hell of a lot scarier than milk. It's almost as if this is some sort of campaign against The Liking Of Cloning.
But wait! Maybe the point is that the use of cloned cows WOULDN'T be on the label, because if it were, you would justly react with the horror with which you reacted to this website for the 12 seconds you thought it might be real. Well, whatever. Milk from clones is identical to that from non-clones, because why wouldn't it be? There's no actual safety hazard here, people. Again, I think you're supposed to be afraid of turning into the preppy/metro people on the website. It's not so much a campaign against cloning as it is a campaign against The Liking Of Cloning. That's why I smell a twinge of religiousness, maybe. Very judgmental of these straw men.
There are legit ethical issues to look at with cloning, to be sure, such as that clones may not make it to term, they can be larger and make for more-difficult childbirth, etc. But if you're going to tell me that that is our biggest concern in ethics when it comes to how cows are raised - I mean, we already put them through mechanized slaughterhouses after they grow up lying in their own feces - you've got some priority restructuring to do. If I were a cow and had to pick, I'd be a clone raised on Frou-Frou Farm, that's for damn sure.
OK, ka-POW - that's my 3-minute take, because I saw that thing and had to respond somehow, however incoherently.... thanks for humoring me and wading through that...