There’s a strong chance you’ve eaten cloned meat
‘On July 5, 1996, scientists at an Edinburgh laboratory in Scotland announced the birth of the world’s first cloned mammal. Dolly the sheep instantly made headline news, opening up a new frontier in genetic research. Replicating mammalian life in this way opened up new business avenues for the mass production of “genetically superior” meats.
Just two decades later, the genetic experiment that was Dolly has become a niche market. In the U.S., commercial livestock cloning is big business at Cyagra, based in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, and at ViaGen in Austin, Texas. Together, these geneticists pump a few thousand cloned animals out into the marketplace each year.’
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