Cloned Meat

Would the technology used to clone children have any worthwhile benefits other than cloning?

I think so, yes. Actually, I think this technology could come along much sooner than the technology for cloning living things. In fact, it's starting to come into existence now. I think that the technology for cloned meat, when we perfect it, will be a substantial benefit to the world. It will many of the problems with meat-eating. Eating meat would become more ethical, since no animals get harmed in the process. The environmental effects would not be as significant since it does not take 12 pounds of grain to produce one pound of cloned meat; additionally, the cows would not produce as much methane. Cloning technology is certainly good for something, luckily for us this technology will probably soon be sufficient to produce meat.

As an interesting note, generally humans find that the closer the animal's physiology is to human physiology, the better the meat tastes. As such, if we could clone human flesh (no different from other animal flesh and it would be ethically obtained) meat-eating could eat it and it would presumably  taste better than many other kinds of meats. Many people would probably find this creepy, but I'm sure some people would develop a taste for it.