Cloning Meat

I ran across this article online and found it to be quite disturbing...(link below)

So it turns out that the FDA announced that food products from cloned animals and their offspring are safe enough to enter the U.S. food supply. The ability for Cattlemen companies to control the type of meat and milk they produce by cloning their best cow or best sheep will in return (hypothetically) satisfy more consumers but also increase revenue. Cloning replicates and does not genetically modify a species. But according to the article many people feel uncomfortable about this issue. Especially the fact that the FDA will not require food producers to label products derived from cloned animals! This bothered me extremely.  The consumer has no choice in the matter, no rights. 

But the good news for now is that since its so expensive to clone a single animal $15,000, then its not likely that we will be consuming cloned meat or milk. Instead this single cow or sheep are used as part of the breeding stock to create "better" animals. But then we ask ourselves...what about all the offspring of this cloned animal? How will that affect us both morally and physically?

The consumption of cloned meat raises many questions:

If it wasn't born "naturally" then is it considered less than an animals and therefore be treated as such? Are cloned animals still natural if we created them (because isn't everything natural)? How do we know if it has long term effects. Where do we draw the line between what is real and what is not? It goes on and on...