Cloned food fight.

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'The probability is that the food is safe to eat.... But the jury's stilt out.'

--Lester Crawford of the Food and Drug Administration, on the agency's conclusion that food from cloned animals is probably safe, but that further research is needed. [NPR, Oct. 31]

'Food is an intensely emotional topic. People who are otherwise rational become irrational. about food safety.'

--Consumer educator Elizabeth Whelan, on public wariness of eating cloned food. (The New York Times, Nov. 4)

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