Well, it's official: American meat eaters, you'll eat cloned meat and like it, thank you very much. The FDA has finally given its approval to allowing meat and milk from cloned animals into the food supply (with the odd exception of newborn cattle and all sheep - wasn't Dolly the first celebrity cloned animal?)

The safety consensus is pretty much the same as the one we wrote about two years ago: meat from a cloned animal is as safe as meat from a non-cloned animal. And since it's "just as good," cloned meat won't be labeled any differently at all. Consumers will have no idea if, on a genetic level, they really are eating the same thing every night.

For the sake of meat eaters, let's hope that things have changed since five years ago, when we wrote that "Cloning to create new animals will almost always create an abnormal creature." Of course, if you eat meat and this development worries you at all, you're more than welcome on "our side." We've even streamlined the signup process so there's no forms to fill out or anything!

As for the vegans out there, I think you've got a fun set of questions to ask your omni friends at the next lunch break...