On the day after the F.D.A. Says Food From Cloned Animals Is Safe a report by the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies “doubts as to whether cloning animals for food supply is ethically justified.”
The group said that surrogates carrying cloned embryos could suffer and that the clones themselves experienced a high rate of disease and other health problems that include increased weight, malformations, respiratory problems, enlarged livers, hemorrhaging and kidney abnormalities.
In cattle, the group’s statement said, about 20 percent of cloned calves do not survive the first 24 hours after birth and an additional 15 percent die before weaning.
