‘CRISPR’ Bacon? Scientists Create Low-Fat Pigs

[CrealCritter]

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/10/24/bacon-low-fat-pigs/

Sounds so freaking delicious - GMO Pigs. Nothing like it NOT!

So the question is how far will scientists go in making our food what they think it should be? It's getting to the point where I don't trust anything at the grocery store anymore.

 

[NH Homesteader]

I just read this story today! Awful isn't it?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

 

[TexasLisa]

Might be time to start raising my own fatty pork!

 

[CrealCritter]

I just read this story today! Awful isn't it?

Just can't leave well enough alone... First I was GMA salmon
www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/08/09/salmon-becomes-worlds-first-genetically-modified-animal-to-enter-food-supply.html

now GMA pork GMA = Genetically Modified Animal).

Any bets how long it will take the FDA to approve GMA Pork?

 

[tortoise]

Every time you select animals to breed for the qualities you want, you're "genetically modifying" your future food.

 

[CrealCritter]

Every time you select animals to breed for the qualities you want, you're "genetically modifying" your future food.

But it's naturally occuring modification and not crossing two different species that would not otherwise breed and produce naturally. That's the difference in my mind anyways.

"Atlantic salmon are modified with a growth hormone gene from Chinook salmon that makes them grow much faster than normal."

 

[Britesea]

I wonder how much longer it will take for the medical community to stop demonizing fat?
Pork fat is at least 50% monounsaturated, which is what you find in the much-touted olive oil. Why is it unhealthy when it's in an animal instead of a fruit?

 

[NH Homesteader]

There's a big difference between selective breeding and gene editing!

I don't want less fatty bacon! Leave my bacon alone, scientists!

 

[Mini Horses]

Personally I like bacon fat!! My AGHs gave me nice meat, lean enough, with lovely fat to render. What's not to like??? I don't care about saving them $$$. Geesh, guess I will have to keep raising pigs.

Damned scientists need to work on climate change and leave our food alone. All the diseases out there and they have to make bacon less fat?????? No wonder I keep seeds and milk goats for raw milk, free range chickens on non- chemically treated pastures and all this stuff. Leave my food alone.