Scott Adam's Take:
Highlight: "I sure enjoy eating Bob the cow, but I wouldn’t feel comfortable eating Bob the other cow."
We have no reason to think that cloned food will be any different from non-cloned food. Your body doesn't check the DNA, it only pulls the proteins apart into amino acids and then builds
completely different proteins from those building blocks. Diseases can't be carried in amino acids, since bacteria are bigger than amino acids.
If you owned a diseased cow (for example) and had to pick a way to get tons of beef from it, you'd do
better to clone it. The clone wouldn't have the disease, since mad cow disease (for example) is transmitted by ingesting a diseased protein, and the clone wouldn't have done that. It's entirely possible however, that the disease could be sexually transmitted, and all "safe, healthy, natural" offspring would have the disease in perpitutity.
The only disease you can pass on to a clone is a genetic disease. And you can't catch a genetic disease from eating meat. You can't catch a genetic disease.
And even if
everything I said above was wrong, and
if the FDA decides to approve it, that's an argument for becoming vegetarian. It gives you no reason whatsoever for giving up eggs or honey.