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Originally Posted by Scribbler1
For milk, perhaps. However I think they are talking cloned steers for their meat. Otherwise you wouldn't have the labeling controversy due to the FDA permission to use cloned steers.
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Has it actually hit the market anywhere? Cloning is more expensive than embryo transfer, and that's pretty pricy at the moment. It's only done on any scale for expensive horses (and not thoroughbreds- they have to be mated naturally to be regestered). Alot of beef and dairy farmers use AI, though, but most beef farmers also use a 'clean up' bull to catch the cows that don't take from the AI. I'd still think it would make more economic sense to clone the high quality bull (beef or dairy), and maybe even the breeding beef cow rather than the steers themselves. If both of the parents are clones, the offspring is predictable.