Why is Cloning Animals Worse than Cloning Plants?
This is from David Friedman at his blog, commenting on Europe Seeks to Ban Food from Clones:
Despite the title, the attempt is for some reason limited to animals. Shouldn’t the same principle apply to plants—for which cloning, in the form of grafting, is a very old and very common technology?
Of course, banning cloned plants pretty much means banning wine, aside from whatever can be produced from wild grapes. And apples. And most other fruit. But if it’s a matter of principle …
David Friedman is always good. He doesn’t suffer fools lightly.
Cloned food all tastes the same.
Brian, if David is right you must be wrong. Does all wine taste the same? I think what you meant to say is that the clone is identical to the parent.
Because cloned animals are cute. And the only good use for grapes is wine making.