Cloned Beef, Pork, and Milk): It's What's for Dinner.

Karyn Schauf sets a frosty glass of milk on the red-checkered tablecloth in front of me; a plate of Oreo knockoffs sits beside it. Two identical cows prance across the glass. In fact, nearly everything in the kitchenette � plates, cookie jars, wallpaper trim � is emblazoned with cows. And why not? We're next door to the Schaufs' 99-cow milking stables, Indianhead Holsteins, in Barron, Wisconsin.

I swirl the glass: A thick lather coats the sides. I sniff: It has a rich, almost buttery aroma. I hate the idea of milk over ice, but the drink is on the rocks because it was squeezed in a steamy, unpasteurized froth just half an hour ago from Mandy2, a 5-foot-tall behemoth with hindquarters as big as truck wheels and a posterior as flat and broad as the tailgate of a pickup. Her massive bone structure supports an udder the size of a beer keg, capable of producing more than 15 gallons of milk a day.

I sip: The milk tastes crisp and creamy, almost velvety � probably because it's fresh and raw. I dunk a cookie, and it gets soggy fast; when I bite into it, it feels like a chocolate milk shake on my palate. Schauf tips her own glass to her lips, chugs it in two big gulps, and sighs loudly.

"You don't have to drink all that if you don't want to," she says. But I do. Mandy2 has outdone herself. Her milk is delicious. There's no reason it shouldn't be, but I'm surprised.
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For now we see through a glass, darkly.... 1st Corinthians 13:12

I wonder, how common are cloned animals? and thus, cloned products?

In "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science" by Tom Bethell, we are shown that the success rate of cloning is so low, and the rare successes show a lot of defects and even die sooner than their originals.

However, the article cited makes it appear to be so easy that we should expect cloned products in our store shelves, soon ending up in our table. But really now, how many animals have been successfully cloned?

Is the article just scaring us out of cloned products which still don't exist?

I'm not questioning whether cloned products are good or bad. Rather, I'm asking if the article's rendition of cloned products being in everyone's table actually realistic?

From the book's chapter on cloning, chapter 8, "The Folly of Dolly -- Cloning and its Discontents":

This seems confirmed by the cloning article in Wikipedia which lists successfully cloned animals, the number of which hardly gives us any reason to expect cloned products on our table.

Just like the human genome project, the promise of cloning appears to be ending up as a dud.

Gerry