{"id":15341,"date":"2015-12-16T08:21:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T13:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15341"},"modified":"2015-12-16T08:21:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T13:21:07","slug":"brave-new-food-ges-and-clones-are-heading-to-the-dinner-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15341","title":{"rendered":"Brave New Food: GEs and Clones are Heading to the Dinner Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2015\/12\/16\/brave-new-food-ges-and-clones-are-heading-to-the-dinner-table\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Brave New Food: GEs and Clones are Heading to the Dinner Table<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"post_meta\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-77876 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2015\/12\/gmcrops_2595814b-510x318.jpg\" alt=\"gmcrops_2595814b\" width=\"510\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>Consumers, safety activists, Big Food, biotech companies and many of the US\u2019s importing and exporting partners have been closely watching to see if the FDA would approve the genetically engineered AquAdvantage Salmon, which it did last month. Of course unlabeled GE crops are eaten by millions and GE animals have been created to make\u00a0<em>human drugs<\/em>\u00a0largely under the public radar. Still the AquAdvantage Salmon is the first approved GE animal destined for the US dinner table.<\/p>\n<p>The AquAdvantage Salmon is not the only GE food animal in the works. Scientists at the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, where Dolly the cloned sheep was created, have spent years creating chickens that can be used as \u201cbiofactories\u201d to make eggs with interferon and other disease-fighting substances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce you\u2019ve made the transgenic birds, then it\u2019s very easy,\u201d enthused scientist Helen Sang, PhD. \u201cYou can breed up hundreds of birds from one cockerel [young male]\u2014because they can be bred with hundreds of hens and you can collect an egg a day and have hundreds of chicks in no time.<\/p>\n<p>Other researchers are working on animals engineered to contain omega-3. Scientists at Harvard Medical School, the University of Missouri and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have concocted \u201cwhite piglets with muscle tissue larded with omega-3 fatty acids,\u201d say published reports. All they had to do was modify a round-worm enzyme that converts omega-6 to omega-3, inject the gene into mouse embryos to create mice that make their own omega-3, and transfer the genetic material into pigs\u2013and voila!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople can continue to eat their junk food,\u201d said Harvard\u2019s Alexander Leaf, MD about the brave new pigs. \u201cYou won\u2019t have to change your diet, but you will be getting what you need.\u201d Aren\u2019t animals great?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brave New Food: GEs and Clones are Heading to the Dinner Table Consumers, safety activists, Big Food, biotech companies and many of the US\u2019s importing and exporting partners have been closely watching to see if the FDA would approve the genetically engineered AquAdvantage Salmon, which it did last month. Of course unlabeled GE crops are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19,11070,11069,11071,5493,5608,373],"class_list":["post-15341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-agribusiness","tag-big-agriculture","tag-big-food","tag-biotech","tag-counterpunch","tag-genetically-modified-organisms","tag-gmos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15342,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15341\/revisions\/15342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}