Twice as nice or double trouble?

A Chinese company plans to replicate cattle, racehorses, sniffer dogs and even departed family pets at 'the world's largest cloning facility', but its success will depend upon whether the public can swallow its longstanding distrust of the controversial technique. Cheng Yingqi reports.

Strawberries, bananas, pawpaw ... anyone who has eaten these fruits recently will have tasted cloned foods, which have been sold unlabelled at supermarkets across the world since the 1980s.

While people seem happy to eat cloned fruits, many draw the line at consuming cloned meat, so when the Boyalife Group in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, announced an ambitious plan to build what it described as "the world's largest cloning factory", the news made a big splash.