Hi Greeneyes,

I grew up on a farm/ranch raising 120 head of registered polled hereford cattle. Our stock was registered so most was sold for breeding stock. We used to run them in the mount Hood national forest in the summer time over thousands of acres of Eagle creek canyon. We got out of the cattle business about 25 years ago and now raise beautiful noble and Grand fir Christmas trees on our family farm in Oregon.

You may want to consider Buffalo as the meat is lean and low in cholesterol. At any rate range fed beef raised on grass is leaner and healthier for you than beef raised in feedlots on grain and who knows what else. Cloning in itself is probably OK as long as the beef is raised in the right environment.

When traveling through California on I-5 we pass a huge feedlot that wreaks to high heaven of Methane. I feel sorry for those cattle living in their own waste it just can't be healthy. I also wonder where all that beef goes too.

All the best,

Steve