Posted on 07/16/2015 1:18:10 AM PDT by Olog-hai
What grows quickly, is packed with protein, has twice the nutritional value of kale and tastes like bacon?
The answer, according to scientists at Oregon State University, is a new strain of seaweed they recently patented.
Dulse is a form of edible seaweed that grows wild along the Pacific and Atlantic coastlines. It’s harvested and commonly used by people in dried form as a cooking ingredient or nutritional supplement.
But OSU researchers say the variety they’ve developed can be farmed and eaten fresh, with the potential for a new industry for Oregon. …
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Wow soylent green is today
Will muslims stay off the beach now?
Seaweed is already delicious.
How can they patent Dulse? It’s been around a long time.
Not the bacon-flavored modification.
I do not eat fruits and veggies anymore.. just a few classes on bio- engineering food scared me. At least when they bio engineer animals, they can only go so far before it is fatal. So skipping all of that, even if it is bacon flavored.
Why don’t you eat heirloom fruits and vegetables?
This is just a question. How do you specifically know a vegetable is “heirloom” or not? Is it by the seed packaging, word of the supplier, or what. Is there a definitive way to tell that doesn’t rely on somebody’s word?
I could do that.. but I haven’t. The inherit pervasiveness of bio- engineering means I cannot rule out the cross contamination. I am not a big veggie fan anyway. So I just avoid veggies.. Most of it is bad for my thyroid anyway.
You think older folks are not paying attention. You can bet their parents or grandparents were into farming. They know more than we think.
Does it glow in the dark? (Fuku, I mean. Not phosphorus. Course, I guess that might cause it, too.)
The piglets acquired their bizarre ability to glow under ‘black’ or UVA light after their embryos were injected with DNA from a jellyfish.
Oh crap. That’s just…wrong.
Just what we needed, bacon flavored seaweed. I hope this new invention wasn’t paid for with our money.
We are slowly discovering the secrets of everything. We ate from the tree of good and evil. Can’t put the genie back. I suspect in 200 years we will have implanted memory in an equivalent of a USB port and cyborg implants for various reasons
ALL foods that we eat are genetically engineered, NO exceptions. The only difference between the techniques we use now versus those used in the past is that now, we can target a single gene, while in the past, we altered tens of thousands of genes randomly and hoped that one of the random results would be useful.
If a plant or animal has been cross-bred, then its entire genome has been altered. Genes that were suppressed in the parent stocks become active in the offspring, and vice versa. Entirely new configurations of DNA were brought into existence through cross-breeding techniques.
Around the early 1900s, a popular genetic engineering technique was to expose seeds to radiation. The radiation literally broke the DNA into fragments and destroyed nucleotides, so that if the plants survived, when they tried to repair the DNA damage, the results were unpredictable. Segments of genes ended up glued together in ways that could never happen "naturally", even by breeding. Plus, the DNA sequences of genes were randomly altered, all over the genome. Plant varieties resulting from radiation exposure have been used in agriculture for over a century.
It is incomprehensible to me that people are perfectly fine with the drastic and random genome alterations that characterize our long history of genetically modifying organisms, but when we use precision techniques that literally allow us to make a change as small as one single nucleotide out of the billions in the genome, leaving the rest of the genome intact and unchanged, people are irrationally afraid. I try to understand, I really do, but I fail.
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