Is it Safe to Eat a Clone's Offspring?

After some research, scientists have proved eating a cloned animal's offspring is safe, provided that it is consumed with some really good spicy mustard and perhaps a nice glass of red wine.

The only known side effects are that the eater's next few bowel movements will be remarkably identical.

I have no reason to expect it to be unsafe, but should it prove to be so, it leaves one very large question. Aside from the obvious "parts harvesting" opportunities (organs, limbs, etc., along with raw materials such as bone, fur, skins) what purpose does the cost of cloning serve? I believe one of the greatest reasons for development of cloning abilities was increased market supply, particularly in areas which are traditionally protein-poor because of conditions NOT conducive to live-stock raising. Cloning doesn't require the whole gestational cycle, along with providing the means to start new generations in far higher numbers than perhaps God intended, by natural means.

(Note: please don't get excited at my reference to God. I'm not suggesting He has any position on cloning. Merely that that was not the method He provided us. And I prefer referring to Him over referring to Nature as the provider.)

Identical twins are clones of each other, and there is no reason from this that the offspring of one would be less healthy than offspring of the other.

No argument there, but there IS that ugly rapid-aging thing Dolly the Sheep did. My twin starting as a baby, and catching up with me in two years (I'm 56) would really give me nightmares imagining the next 2 years. Meet my twin brother --- Say, what? You gotta be kidding. He's either your Great-Grandfather, or a really dried prune. No way that's YOUR twin! (And I'm ugly enough my kids don't want to introduce me, as it is!)