How soon will meat or milk from clones be on the market?
It’s highly unlikely that you will see meat from clones at the supermarket any time soon. We anticipate that clones would be used as elite breeding animals rather than as food themselves. Instead, the sexually reproduced offspring of animal clones would be the animals intended to produce food. Milk from cow clones may enter the food supply once clones are bred and have their calves (cows don’t make milk until after they have calves). It’s important to remember, however, that at this time there are only a few hundred cattle clones, most of which are not dairy cows, so again, it’s highly unlikely that there will be much milk from dairy cow clones in the food supply.
