Posted on 10/11/2019 2:49:14 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Friday gave the green light for genetically modified cotton to be used for human consumption, paving the way for a protein-packed new food source - edible cottonseed that tastes a bit like chickpeas - that its developers said could help tackle global malnutrition.
The Food and Drug Administration's decision on the cotton plant developed by Texas A&M University scientists means it is allowed as food for people and all types of animals.
Texas A&M AgriLife Research plant biotechnologist Keerti Rathore said the scientists are holding discussions with companies and hope to have the plant commercially available within about five years. Rathore said the team also will explore seeking regulatory approval in other countries starting with Mexico.
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I don’t cotton to it.
Those dang cotton pickers keep messing with our food supply.
Having just used Cotton pickers... I looked up the meaning and most definitions says it’s a reference to blacks.
And I can’t certainly see how that could be. But growing up in the south cotton picking idiot was leveled at a whole lot more than blacks. Sometimes I’m still learning that some of the idioms we used growing up did have racist underpinnings that I never noticed.
Anyway. I didn’t mean it racially.
“I knew it, I should have listened to Milo and put my
money in Egyptian cotton...”
I wonder how many will get that reference?
Give me some more of the blue!
This is my wife’s favorite comedy movie...I mean favorite. I like it too....but it is her favorite...Great stupid flic...
Catch 22.
O.K. That seems to make sense now.
LOL - thanks!
This makes me sick! You eat it!
I can’t. It made me sick.
LOL
The plantation was taken over by a new owner who decided his slaves should be better fed, so he provided them with plentiful garden vegetables, more corn, and pork.
After a couple of months the slaves sent spokesmen to the "Big House" to entreat the owner to "Please let us have our cottonseed back, We sho' misses it."
So, the owner gladly allowed them to add the (plentiful, waste) cottonseed as a component of their new diet -- and they flourished on it!
(Couldn't help but wonder if it really was the cottonseed oil that they really missed in their diets...)
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So --- this "new" cottonseed food might not be a bad idea...
TXnMA
(Full disclosure: As a youngster, I often shelled out cottonseeds and ate the seed pulp as a nutty-flavored snack -- reminiscent of sunflower seeds, piñon nuts, bull nettle seeds, or pumpkin seeds -- quite enjoyable, but lots of effort required...)
The new “normal”:
Burn corn aka ethanol.
Eat GMO cotton.
Whatever happened to “eat zhit and die”?
Cotton produces a chemical called Gossypol which is very effective at controlling insects, but also has a lot of nasty effects on humans and other animals. The AP article I’m going to link to in a little while mentions that chickens die within a week when feed straight cotton seeds. Simply eating oil pressed from the cotton seeds but not properly purified can make men sterile (over prolonged periods of time). Right now some cotton seed is feed to cows, which can break down small amounts of gossypol and much of the rest is pressed for oil that goes through a complex set of treatments to remove gossypol, making it safe for human consumption.
http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2009/12/02/edible-cottonseed/
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