[knarf]

Job security, is my guess

A 1000 lb beef or two 500 pounders ... that's the (basic) question.

Seems to me the 1000 would probably eat a bit less than two 500's, require a little less space and accomplish the 'task' of being butchered in a little less time.

(All the above just a guess)

[sodpoodle]

We are interfering with natural selection and bio-diversity; the point of no return is coming - when there are only hybridized crops and cloned livestock - genetic mutants.

Visionaries are hoarding Heirloom seeds for this eventuality - let’s pray that a breeder stock of bovines, fowl etc., are being safeguarded too.

[Nifster]

Lots of fancy made up words that really amount to nothing

I get tired of people ringing the fire bell for a five alarm fire when the wet leaves aren’t even smoldering.

[Wonder Warthog]

Alarmist horse manure. Cloning is no different than selective breeding by artificial insemination. The basic structure of the animal changes not at sll. Beef is still beef, pork is till pork, etc.

This is quite different from "genetically manipulated" species, which involves the insertion of "foreign" genes into the organism's DNA. THAT changes the basic structures/biochemistries of the manipulated organism, and there might possibly be unexpected side effects (though AFAIK, none has ever been identified/proven).