Today I received a petition which assured me that cloning animals was a "risky, unnecessary and cruel technology."

Well, what do you know, human beings aren't animals. :-) It's fine to clone humans, but it's baaaahd to do it to sheep. (Pun intended.)

And according to the link they supply, the science its sketchy, and there is not enough data on the safety of cloned materials. And suddenly, they've discovered that the procedure doesn't work that well! (Well, isn't that amazing? Seems it was working fine -- quite promising! -- when we argued it deserved Federal funding.)

Yes, indeed, we can have cloned human fetal tissue implanted in our bodies and brains -- that would be wonderful and non-cruel, wouldn't it? -- but it would be scary, scary, scary if we simply ate cloned meat or drank milk from a cloned cow. Never mind that the hyodrochloric acid in your stomach breaks down DNA within, rather than directly integrating the material into one's tissues, as planned in the other scenario.

Giving all homage to Jonathan Swift, I have a modest proposal: Since cloning experimentation is good, but it is "cruel" to do it to animals, the obvious answer is to have the federal government decree that all cloning experiments must henceforth be peformed on developing humans.