Could you be eating cloned meat? Or drinking milk from cloned cows? The answer is: probably.

Experts say there's no sure way of knowing whether cloned livestock have found their way into the food chain, even in Europe, which is the country closest to totally banning livestock cloning.

Cloning is an expensive process. Apart from it becoming more common in the US; Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and Australia are just some of the other countries that clone livestock. 

A cloned animal costs around $15,000, so it is more common to copy genetically outstanding specimens so they may naturally sire exceptional progeny. For instance: a dairy farmer may have a cow that produces milk day in and day out and ends up carrying the load for other cows that produce less milk. So that farmer may choose to clone that cow so it can produce offspring that also produce high yields.

It is rare that these cloned animals should make it to the food chain, although, once their life comes to an end, experts can't rule out that they don't end up as meat on your table or food in your dog's bowl.

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Were you aware that you could be eating cloned meat? Does it bother you? If cloned meat were less expensive, would you forego ethical concerns to put food on your table?