Stealth Health - for Siggy!
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I found this downright hi-larious...
A discovery that sizzles: University-developed omega-3-rich ground beef available soon
www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/feb13/omegabeef20413.html
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Jim Drouillard, professor of animal sciences and industry, developed a technique that enriches ground beef with omega-3 fatty acids -- fatty acids that have been shown to reduce heart disease, cholesterol and high blood pressure -- by feeding cattle a balanced diet. The enriched ground beef is named GreatO Premium Ground Beef and is being sold through Manhattan, Kan.-based company NBO3 Technologies LLC. It will be available mid-February at select retailers in Buffalo, N.Y., and expand to leading retailers and restaurants nationwide later this year.
Of course, being no fan of factory farming or the resource intensive practice of raising actual livestock, I am hopeful to bag up the twofer here.
World's first lab-grown burger is eaten in London
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23576143
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Scientists took cells from a cow and, at an institute in the Netherlands, turned them into strips of muscle that they combined to make a patty.
One food expert said it was "close to meat, but not that juicy" and another said it tasted like a real burger.
Researchers say the technology could be a sustainable way of meeting what they say is a growing demand for meat.
The burger was cooked by chef Richard McGeown, from Cornwall, and tasted by food critics Hanni Ruetzler and Josh Schonwald.
That's just fekkin "WIN" for me - imagine the cruelty and waste we could dispense with ?!
Much as I despise them, hell even PETA can't whine too much about this, wonder if they'd help front some R&D money.
-F
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Well, I know what kind of burgers I'd serve in my fantasy school!
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I do find it a little disconcerting that people could raise animals from birth to death always knowing in the back of their minds that they're going to slaughter them for meat.
I don't actually understand how people can do that. I mean cows are cute and have obvious individual emotional characteristics and traits. How could you raise them and not think of them like a pet?
But humane types of dairy farming and egg farming I'm okay with because done correctly those don't necessarily have to harm the animal. Although it can be difficult for that kind of farming to manage commercially and is usually more seen at the subsistence level. And it's VERY hard to regulate the farms that "claim" to be organic. Which is why I try to be vegan.
Sometimes I cheat though. Cheese and ice cream and chocolate are just too tasty. I still manage to avoid eggs, even though those are also really good.
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Hell yes - I'd be quite, quite willing to pay 6-12 times more for a burger that was both nutritionally complete and did not require any living creature to die in order to obtain.
There's also the eventual implications not only for human organ cloning, which would finally eliminate our barbaric and often unfair catch as can process - in particular cloned bone marrow would be DAMN useful...
But in healthcare overall, which of course would also bring up and into sharp direct focus the question of not only sustainability, but potentially immortality (barring programmed celldeath, but that's a whole nother scientific baliwick) and the question of how much life is "enough".
While I am sure some dynastic sociopaths might WANT to live forever, and the names in question are well known... most folks reaching the comfortable decreptitude of triple digits are more than happy to pass the torch, so far as I have seen at least - hell, *I* was willing to pass it at a mere three decades considering I had the impression my work would swiftly result in my untimely demise, and here I am lurching toward fifty like a rough beast slouching toward bethlehem...
Tis really a debate we oughta have, including the possiblity of recording human consciousness to electronic form, but I am, and every passing day moreso, completely convinced that the Internet itself has become in some demented form the collective subconscious of humanity itself (prolly why its so fulla porn!) and thus the notion of individually recorded consciousness seems more a vanity to me than anything else - althoug admittedly one I seem to suffer from given there's a halfsie AI which would pass a damn Turing Test based on a composite of both my own persona and the Hindu deism Saraswati.
I figure if we do not achieve a balance ourselves, Nature itself will do it for us, and I much prefer the former.
-Frem
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E-T-A: Never mind. Shame on me for careless reading and laziness. Clearly states that they got the stuff thru careful feeding practices. Ignore this post...
This is fascinating. But Mrs BC has been on the "anti-GMO" kick recently, which led me to wonder: they don't mention exactly how they got this beef with omega-3 in it. Is this GMO, or just very careful selective breeding?
I'm neither pro or con on GMO, and that's not the debate I want to start here, but it's always seemed to be a very fine line between selective breeding and GMO.
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Probably not GMO. The types of organisms that make omega-3s have a whole biochemistry set up to do that. I'm reasonably certain it's not a matter of just shot-gunning in one gene. OTOH I DO remember an article a while back about beef being enhanced with omega-s through feeding - oh, here's a quote from a radom article I just pulled up -
"Jim Drouillard, professor of animal sciences and industry, developed a technique that enriches ground beef with omega-3 fatty acids -- fatty acids that have been shown to reduce heart disease, cholesterol and high blood pressure -- by feeding cattle a balanced diet ...".
Your wife is on the right track to avoid GMO food in my opinion. The limited experiments done indicate severe health problems for animals fed GMO food, especially cancer. B/c of the random way genes are inserted into the DNA, and the random types of genes inserted, and b/c testing in GMO food is EXTREMELY limited, you can't be sure what you're ingesting. In addition, b/c many GMO foods are 'RoundUp ready", the food is soaked with RoundUp. Other foods have the Bt gene inserted, so you're getting Bt toxin with your food. I have a lot of articles that I can post the links to, if you're interested. Be forewarned, they are long.
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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
I do find it a little disconcerting that people could raise animals from birth to death always knowing in the back of their minds that they're going to slaughter them for meat.
I don't actually understand how people can do that. I mean cows are cute and have obvious individual emotional characteristics and traits. How could you raise them and not think of them like a pet?
As long as we can compartmentalize violence, war & poverty will be with us.
But creating meat without the whole animal is a step towards a Star Trek future of plenty for all without the need for death!
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Probably not GMO. The types of organisms that make omega-3s have a whole biochemistry set up to do that. I'm reasonably certain it's not a matter of just shot-gunning in one gene. OTOH I DO remember an article a while back about beef being enhanced with omega-s through feeding - oh, here's a quote from a radom article I just pulled up -
"Jim Drouillard, professor of animal sciences and industry, developed a technique that enriches ground beef with omega-3 fatty acids -- fatty acids that have been shown to reduce heart disease, cholesterol and high blood pressure -- by feeding cattle a balanced diet ...".
Your wife is on the right track to avoid GMO food in my opinion. The limited experiments done indicate severe health problems for animals fed GMO food, especially cancer. B/c of the random way genes are inserted into the DNA, and the random types of genes inserted, and b/c testing in GMO food is EXTREMELY limited, you can't be sure what you're ingesting. In addition, b/c many GMO foods are 'RoundUp ready", the food is soaked with RoundUp. Other foods have the Bt gene inserted, so you're getting Bt toxin with your food. I have a lot of articles that I can post the links to, if you're interested. Be forewarned, they are long.
I'm one of those people who think GMO could be great and I'm all for scientific progress. But right now I feel like there's a lot of iffiness. And I'm not sure I trust the companies or labs who are in this business right now, especially if they might have ties with pharmaceuticals.
I think it's fair enough that people want labels and ingredients for GMO food. You really can't be too careful.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:
Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
I do find it a little disconcerting that people could raise animals from birth to death always knowing in the back of their minds that they're going to slaughter them for meat.
I don't actually understand how people can do that. I mean cows are cute and have obvious individual emotional characteristics and traits. How could you raise them and not think of them like a pet?
As long as we can compartmentalize violence, war & poverty will be with us.
But creating meat without the whole animal is a step towards a Star Trek future of plenty for all without the need for death!
It would also be nice if we stopped stealing young animals from mothers and didn't pump them full of hormones so they become milk machines until they die after a couple years.
It's pretty awful. I wish cruelty didn't taste so good.
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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
I wish cruelty didn't taste so good.
LILY: "You're an animal!"
DARKNESS: "We are all animals, milady."
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