05-08-2013, 09:25 AM
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Re: Genetically Modified Food.
This is interesting. Not genetically modified food but meat produced in a laboratory from just a few cow cells. Apparently meat production isn't sustainable by conventional means either - according to the video.World's first lab-grown burger to be cooked and eaten.
05-08-2013, 09:38 AM
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Re: Genetically Modified Food.
Originally Posted by MKJ
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This is interesting. Not genetically modified food but meat produced in a laboratory from just a few cow cells. Apparently meat production isn't sustainable by conventional means either - according to the video.World's first lab-grown burger to be cooked and eaten.
05-08-2013, 09:43 AM
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Re: Genetically Modified Food.
Originally Posted by ben-varrey
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I still wouldn't eat it - I think they mess about far too much with our food (what they put on it, in it and innoculate it against) and I am convinced that many diseases, that are attributed to other things, will, eventually, be attributed to this chemical cocktail we are supplied with.
.Presumeably this can be extended to other food types such as fish and stuff.
05-08-2013, 09:49 AM
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Re: Genetically Modified Food.
Originally Posted by MKJ
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People won't have the choice eventually as the demand for meat is outstripping the resources. Seems a great way to me to produce huge amounts of meat. An unlimited supply of very clean meat .Presumeably this can be extended to other food types such as fish and stuff.
Hey yeah ~ an unlimited supply of 'stuff' would be most welcome
Invaluable in fact
05-08-2013, 10:16 AM
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Re: Genetically Modified Food.
Originally Posted by BBC News
An independent study found that lab grown beef uses 45% less energy than the average global representative figure for farming cattle. It also produces 96% fewer greenhouse gas emissions and requires 99% less land.
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05-08-2013, 10:21 AM
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Re: Genetically Modified Food.
Originally Posted by MKJ
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An independent study found that lab grown beef uses 45% less energy than the average global representative figure for farming cattle. It also produces 96% fewer greenhouse gas emissions and requires 99% less land.
Makes sense to me
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05-08-2013, 10:25 AM
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Re: Genetically Modified Food.
Hi Karen, I once read a scientific article which said that plants which have been attacked by pests and diseases are better for you than perfect plants as the attack makes the plant produce certain chemicals that are good for our health when we eat them.05-08-2013, 10:40 AM
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Hi Alan - I wish I could remember more detail about the programme I watched (quite a few years ago) but they were describing (and naming) the insects that attack the parasites on plants and that nature was a finely balanced thing - our spraying chemicals upsets the balance and that's why parasites became a problem as more of the insects were killed.I didn't know that about the chemical release in plants!
I'm just not happy about all this tinkering with our food and drinks.
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