Meat and Milk from Cloned Animals in America's Food Supply?

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Twelve years after scientists produced Dolly the Sheep from the cells of another animal, the FDA says milk and meat from cloned livestock is safe to eat. Is the world ready? Critics say cloning's expensive, inefficient and cruel. What about the quality of the food and the "yuck" factor? Also, a business editor on stimulating the economy, in early American history, Christmas was banned by Christians.

Twelve years after scientists produced Dolly the Sheep from the cells of another animal, the FDA says milk and meat from cloned livestock is safe to eat. Is the world ready? Critics say cloning's expensive, inefficient and cruel. What about the quality of the food and the "yuck" factor? Also, a business editor on the basics of stimulating the economy, and a look at colonial days, when Christmas was banned by the Puritans. 

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Host:

Warren Olney

Producers:

Karen Radziner, Frances Anderton, Dan Konecky, Sonya Geis