Are You Eating Cloned Meat? It Might Be More Common Than You Think, Say Scientists

Posted July 4, 2016

External Article: Daily Mail

Aaron D. Levine, associate professor in the School of Public Policy, was quoted in the Daily Mail article “Are You Eating Cloned Meat? It Might Be More Common Than You Think, Say Scientists.” 

Excerpt:

With the possible exception of the ram sacrificed by Abraham in the Bible, Dolly must be the world's most famous sheep.

The ewe's birth in an Edinburgh laboratory on July 5, 1996 was front-page news, provoking hype and hand-wringing in equal parts.

For the most part, cloning turned out to be a dead end.

But there is one sector in which Dolly's legacy is alive and well: the duplication of prize breeding animals.

How aggressively the private sector has developed this niche market has depended in large part on national or regional regulations, with key differences between the United States, China and the European Union. 

“The most dramatic impact of the cloning of Dolly has been on animal cloning in the United States,” said Professor Aaron Levine, an expert in bioethics and cloning at Georgia Tech.

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