Mass-Produced Food

The New York Times quote of the day for today, from an article saying that the FHA has found that meat from cloned animals is safe to sell to consumers:

"When you buy a box of Cheerios in New York and one in Champaign, Illinois, you know they are going to be the same. By shortening the genetic pool using clones, you can do a similar thing [for meat]."

It is worth it all to have mass-produced food that is exactly the same everywhere - even if it has all the nutritional value mass-produced out of it, like Cheerios. With that identical meat, people all over the world can eat identical McDonald's hamburgers.