Are Cloned Cows Coming to a Grocery Store Near You?
SIOUX CENTER (Worthy News)– Each year cows, pigs and horses are cloned and bred in the United States.
Trans Ova Genetics is a company located in Sioux Center, Iowa which births using cloning techniques cows, pigs and horses.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the consumption of meat and milk from cloned cows, pigs and goats in 2008.
“There are cattle in the thousands globally now”, and their offspring and descendants are “going to multiply every year,” Blake Russell, head of Trans Ova’s animal cloning division told the Agence France Presse.
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