Bull Market for Clones: Studs, Not Stock

January 16, 2008 By JOELLE TESSLER, AP Business Writer

(AP) -- The reaction was fast, furious and expected. Within hours of the government's announcement that milk and meat from cloned animals was safe, food companies insisted they had no plans to sell such products and consumer groups said Americans had no plans -or desires - to eat them.

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