New York – The US Food and Drug Administration is expected to declare as early as next week that meat and milk from cloned animals and their offspring can be sold to the public.
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The FDA had previously asked producers of cloned livestock not to sell food products from such animals pending its final ruling.
The decision is expected to generate intense opposition from some consumer groups. Some big food companies contend the concept is too new and controversial, and they will not, at least initially, market such products. [wsj]
The decision would come after more than six years of wrestling with the question and would be a milestone for a small cadre of biotech companies that want to make a business out of producing cloned farm animals.
What are you talking about? Why would it be pareve? It’s an animal, of course it’s fleishig. And there’s no reason why it should be a shayla either. It’s 100% kosher, subject to shechita, bedika, melicha, and not mixing with milk, just like any other animal of the same species (um, we are talking about kosher species, of course; a cloned pig is no more kosher than any other pig).
Now if you’re talking vat-grown cultured flesh, that’s another story; that would indeed be pareve, and would be kosher even if the original DNA came from a pig. But we’re nowhere near that technology yet, and it has nothing to do with cloning.
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what is the halachic/kosheret of such an animal?