Posted on 12/05/2018 7:57:18 AM PST by Red Badger
Apples today aren’t the apples of 1800’s...................
Double muscle?? I didn’t think joy behar went to the gym.
Kardashians....................
Building A Bigger Badonkadonk
Breeding *is* genetic engineering. *Every* food item that we grow that does not look like its wild counterpart has different genes than the wildtype counterpart. The difference is that with the use of enzymes (which occur naturally), we can target the specific gene we want to change, while in the past, breeders tried to target those same genes in a very unfocused way by selectively breeding the plants or animals that had the desired genes (expressed as "traits") and discarding the ones that didn't have them.
In this case, a control region of a gene involved in muscle growth was selectively edited to cause the muscles to grow larger. This exact same mutation arose naturally in cows, and study of the cows allowed scientists to determine what the mutation is so that they could cause the same mutation in other animals.
Several years ago, I saw a scientific research article detailing the introduction of this mutation into mice. For illustration, the researchers had skinned two mice, one normal and one with the mutation, and photographed them to show the difference in muscle mass and tone. I have to say that the muscular mouse actually looked like it would be pretty tasty if it was slathered with barbecue sauce and grilled. No, I have never tasted mouse.
My first, second and third thought also.
Actually those are not bacon hogs, too lean and little bellies.
Now I’m going to have to amend my cardinal rule: Never have anything for a pet, girlfriend, OR DINNER, whose ass you cannot kick in an emergency.
“Giant hogs were first developed at Seoul National University, in South Korea, by microbiologists on a mission to create more meat.”
Microbiologists study bacteria.
These are just big bacteria........................
I like lean bacon................
Breeding *is* genetic engineering.
One thing I discovered when I moved to Kentucky was wild onions/garlic (nobody seems to know which it is). I thought it was a great find in my lawn and it really is delicious - kind of a cross between onions and garlic, and when it is tender you can use the shoots just like green onions or chives.
But then I noticed my lawn was actually infested with it, and it is impossible to kill. Every spring and fall (when it’s active - it’s a bulb) mowing my lawn smells like a salad.
The bulbs only get, at maximum, 3/4” in diameter so it’s not very practical for cooking - unless of course the domesticated varieties don’t exist.
I got five acres of the stuff.
Do they throw in a few free cigars?
No tobacco products. It ruins the taste of the meat...............
The Navy base in Millington, TN, has the onions as well. They’d mow the lawns and it would smell like fried onions for a few hours.
Hokey smokes, the years have not been kind to Arnie
“That sounds oxymoronic.”
my very first thought as well ...
It’s actoually a pleasing odor. :)
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