Dairy Industry Skeptical About Cloned Cows By FREDERIC J. FROMMER, Associated Press Writer Mon Jul 11,11:44 AM ETWASHINGTON - As the Food and Drug Administration considers whether to lift a voluntary ban on selling food from cloned animals, the agency is getting some resistance from an unusual source: the dairy industry. Trade groups for farmers and companies that use dairy products are not enthusiastic about introducing milk from cloned cows into the marketplace, fearing consumers would be leery about the products.[...]Bob Schauf, a dairy farmer from Barron, Wis., about 90 miles east of Minneapolis, cloned his prize-winning Holstein about four years ago, making four copies — one of which died because of complications while calving earlier this year.Schauf called the ban "ridiculous. It's a phobia more than anything scientific. We need to get FDA to come along and say it's fine. They're as normal as any other animal. Common sense has to take over soon."Because the FDA has asked farmers not to sell products from cloned animals, Schauf feeds the milk to his family and employees. He said he has other elite cows that he'd like to clone but has held off because of the government action....
WASHINGTON - As the Food and Drug Administration considers whether to lift a voluntary ban on selling food from cloned animals, the agency is getting some resistance from an unusual source: the dairy industry.
Trade groups for farmers and companies that use dairy products are not enthusiastic about introducing milk from cloned cows into the marketplace, fearing consumers would be leery about the products.
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Bob Schauf, a dairy farmer from Barron, Wis., about 90 miles east of Minneapolis, cloned his prize-winning Holstein about four years ago, making four copies — one of which died because of complications while calving earlier this year.
Schauf called the ban "ridiculous. It's a phobia more than anything scientific. We need to get FDA to come along and say it's fine. They're as normal as any other animal. Common sense has to take over soon."
Because the FDA has asked farmers not to sell products from cloned animals, Schauf feeds the milk to his family and employees. He said he has other elite cows that he'd like to clone but has held off because of the government action....
note: "Elite Cows" would make a great band name.
So would "Burrito Rockists."
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