Cloned food 6

No Bum Steers
Steak

Livestock farmers hope to use cloning for the same kind of improvements in beef that experts foresee for milk. Farmers plan to identify animals from their herds that produce the choicest meats—prime grades with top consistency and marbling—so they can clone them. The hope is that the offspring of these clones will produce the same exceptional quality steaks, chops, and fillets. Says Ronald Bailey, a science editor for Reason magazine, in a blog entry: "The usual neoluddite naysayers oppose cloning animals. As for me, I can hardly wait for a nicely marbled steak from a clone of prize-winning steer." Such meats likely won't be introduced for four and a half more years.