It's official: I'm just not brave enough for the brave new world.

A decade after Dolly became the first cloned sheep in history, the Food and Drug Administration is set to approve [0] the widespread cloning [1] of barnyard animals for milk and meat.

The fight between pro- and anti-clone camp is heating up, according to articles at the New York Times [2] and the Washington Post [3].

In a nutshell, the issue boils down to this: Will the public ever know if our meat and milk has been cloned?

Pro-cloners argue that because there are no differences between the clone [4] and the original, the average consumer will "come to accept this." They also say it'll improve quality, (because breeders will be able to reproduce the most superior animals) and consistency (because today's steak will literally be last month's steak.)

Anti-clone people -- which to my surprise included powerful food corporations like Kraft and Nestle -- are worried about how this will go over with the public, among other things.

They already have an inkling. More than 60 percent are opposed to eating cloned products for ethical and moral reasons. Others worry about the health risks.

I don't know where the moral/ethical line falls for you personally, but I'd like to hear it. (If only to worry about aspects of cloning that haven't even occurred to me yet).

Here's what I know for sure: If they approve this, I'm swearing off lamb chops forever. To me, eating a Dolly kabob would surely mess with my karma. Besides that, it's just plain weird.