Dolly, the first cloned animal ever, was a nice, perfectly normal sheep. And she was also lucky enough to die before the FDA’s decision that cloned animal food products are safe. Yes, the United States’ Food and Drug Administration eventually announced this week that meat and milk from cloned animals do not pose a risk and that they are safe to consume. However, despite this decision, the Department of Agriculture asked producers to wait a little longer and not to sell such products until further notice.

The Food and Drug Administration’s decision came in a moment when thinking of eating cloned meat is no longer a sci-fi scenario. Despite food producers’ complaints, surveys showed that people are not as afraid as producers suggested about eating such products. In fact some may find it simply attractive!

So, when the National Farmers Union in Washington, D.C., realized products from cloned animals would eventually reach supermarkets, the institution asked at least for product labeling, which sounds fair, in fact: consumers should be at least aware of what they cook.

At the moment the number of cloned animals doesn’t surpass 1,000, but some day in the future these cloned “cattle, swine and goat clones” will no longer be used only for breeding and will sit in our burgers.