Healthy Bacon: Will It Take Genetic Engineering, Cloning?

The Indy Channel ^ | March 27, 2006 | AP

[Abathar]

Read this just as I took a bite out of McGriddle with bacon sandwich, the thought of mixing worms with my bacon didn't set very well...

[Servant of the 9]

It's not supposed to be good for you, it's supposed to taste good.

What is with these wussies who want to live forever, no matter how mean, joyless and foetid they have to make that life?

So9

[Abathar]

Almost everything in life that is pleasurable is either illegal, immoral or fattening. Just leave my d@mn bacon alone, if I want to cut my life short by a couple of years because I like bacon then so be it.

[Calpernia]

Genetically engineered animals? Patenting of DNA then?

I smell Monsanto.

[Bear_Slayer]

A report was released this week regarding omega 3s.

They can not confirm that Omega 3s are good for you.

[Calpernia]

Ooops! Was I right?? It is LOOKING that way!

Copy:

The Monsanto Pig (Patent pending)

The patent applications were published in February 2005 at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva. A Greenpeace researcher who monitors patent applications, Christoph Then, uncovered the fact that Monsanto is seeking patents not only on methods of breeding, but on actual breeding herds of pigs as well as the offspring that result.

"If these patents are granted, Monsanto can legally prevent breeders and farmers from breeding pigs whose characteristics are described in the patent claims, or force them to pay royalties," says Then. "It's a first step toward the same kind of corporate control of an animal line that Monsanto is aggressively pursuing with various grain and vegetable lines."

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[Abathar]

I read that awhile ago too, they ASSUME they are better for you, but they don't have the proof yet. Mixing worm DNA with swines, can anything good really come of that?

[Bear_Slayer]

I thought hogs already had microscopic worms. Do they need more?

[jern]

whats wrong with turkey bacon as a substitute

[Vectorian]

You must already have a pretty strong stomach to start with if you can eat MuckDonalds syntho-food replacement substance voluntarily! :D

[Abathar]

Yeah, I know. I usually get a McMuffin, Canadian bacon at least has a grain to it, not much they can do to mess with that except what they call cheese...

[Smokin' Joe]

...uncovered the fact that Monsanto is seeking patents not only on methods of breeding,

I'm not sure I want to know what they found 'unique and patentable' there...

If these patents are granted, Monsanto can legally prevent breeders and farmers from breeding pigs whose characteristics are described in the patent claims, or force them to pay royalties,"...

These guys would patent dirt if they thought they could get away with it.

moneymoneymoneymoney...

[Xenalyte]

Of great interest ping!

[JZelle]

I loved that Olestra but it never really took off.

[Calpernia]

Another one for review:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1573646/posts
How do you say No NAIS in Japanese?

(Monsanto) (posts 63 and 64 show Monsanto playing with the bird flu)

[Old Professer]

All my life, I have been laughed at for picking all the fat off grilled or fried bacon; now they're going to make the fat the healthy part?

[Old Professer]

Double blind, placebo controls, no measurable benefit whatsoever.

[Abathar]

I had no problems with potato chips made from it, but my wife had to run to the bathroom as soon as she ate some. I hoped it would take off better than it did myself.

[Abathar]

You do? Unfortunatly the crispy fat is the best part of the pig, I usually go after that first...

[Smokin' Joe]

That is one step shy of people monitoring, and creates all sorts of bookwork and requirements which will drive small grazing livestock herd owners out of business.

Wonder who lobbied for that? (/sarc)