I don’t know much about Verlyn Klinkenbord, but I like the way he thinks:
Anyone who really cares about food — its different tastes, textures and delights — is more interested in diversity than uniformity. As it happens, the same is true for anyone who cares about farmers and their animals. An agricultural system that favors cloned animals has no room for farmers who farm in different ways. Cloning, you will hear advocates say, is just another way of making cows. But every other way — even using embryo transplants and artificial insemination — allows nature to shuffle the genetic deck. A clone does not.
Read the rest of his New York Times editorial — Closing the barn door after the cows have gotten out.