Remember the Shmoo?
from Al Capp's Lil Abner cartoon
Posted on 01/05/2011 3:36:28 AM PST by Flavius
Genetically modified crops may have once been cutting edge, but now there is a new frontier - genetically modified animals.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli#Role_in_disease
side issue for pill poppers and "energy" drink connoisseur
yet commercially more than 10 t of B12 are produced each year from a number of bacterial species.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/abvdjbgkhmkmfjgu/
yay science
Is Bricktop involved with this?
Wait until some mad genetic scientist finds a mechanism to create a 9,000 pound chicken or hog.
It is inevitable.
Who’s Bricktop?
I read that it is practical to sell when your hog is 250#, but that they can grow to 650#.
From the title I was sure that this was going to be another Michael Moore topic...
what is especially good, is that they breed them to WANT to be eaten. see the hitchiker guide for details;-)
I’m sure when GM farm animals are authorized for stock on regulated farms, they will be sterile. No unauthorized reproduction will exist. Because they are GM, they will have strict controls to keep them from contaminating the environment - why have the GM animals at all? The upside for the control freaks is that no more unauthorized “freelance” farmers will exist. Ever.
I have been watching the series Deadwood.
What happens to Mr Wu’s pigs?
Please don’t take my Pig Meat away!
Reporter comes to the farm to talk to the farmer regarding his newly created three-legged chickens. The reporter asks, "How do they taste?" Farmer replies, "Don't know, we can't catch 'em."
[ I read that it is practical to sell when your hog is 250#, but that they can grow to 650#. ]
They used to raise pigs for Lard back in the day with some approachign 1,000 pounds.
[ I’m sure when GM farm animals are authorized for stock on regulated farms, they will be sterile. No unauthorized reproduction will exist. Because they are GM, they will have strict controls to keep them from contaminating the environment - why have the GM animals at all? The upside for the control freaks is that no more unauthorized “freelance” farmers will exist. Ever. ]
That is the problem with this sort of thing, Farmers see this today with seed corn, comming soon to ranches.... unfourtunately....
[ Escherichia coli
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli#Role_in_disease
side issue for pill poppers and “energy” drink connoisseur
yet commercially more than 10 t of B12 are produced each year from a number of bacterial species.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/abvdjbgkhmkmfjgu/
yay science ]
I rely on B-12 supplementation to survive as I cannot absorb enough naturally. if not for this i would either be very sickly or dead.
Was that practical considering the cost of feeding them?
[ Was that practical considering the cost of feeding them? ]
Most were fed scraps and allowed to graze, usually feeding alongside other farm critters eating the food the cows (cows are messy eaters) knock out of the feed bunks etc....
Watch the movie Snatch, he calculates how many pigs you need to get rid of a body in an hour.
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