The BBC ran an article about animal cloning, and featured Austin company ViaGen. It must be a pretty tremendous prize bull to pay $15,000 to clone it. Pigs are only $3,000 to clone. According to Blake Russell, VP of sales and business development, "The technology is currently in a rapid state of development and will meet the needs of large agricultural numbers around the world very, very soon."

Currently the FDA doesn’t allow animal products from clones or their offspring to enter the human food chain, but a ruling at the end of the year is expected to change that.

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