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Originally Posted by Baltar  As a food it won't be any different whether cloned or not; people are just spooked by the concept. But the repercussions for the environment are very frightening. Some farm animals can become feral if they escape (including pigs, horses and goats). If they start interbreeding, or cross breeding with their wild ancestors it'll create a mess of the gene pool in the wild. |
A quick note.
Cloning, as itself, does not equal, or require, artificial genetic alterations, and will not, as itself, produce new types of genes, or even new genetic recombinations.
If you are afraid of domesticated, bred animals messing the gene pool, the threat has existed as long as they have been domesticated and bred in the first place, about 5000-7000 years ago.