Posted on 12/05/2018 7:57:18 AM PST by Red Badger
AN AMBITIOUS pig farmer raising muscle-bound mutant porkers for the bacon market is selling their sperm on Facebook.
The Cambodian-based breeder is flogging the semen - along with insemination kits - to others looking to move into the 'Frankenswine' market.
Mutant ...one of the giant pigs greedily gobbles up his massive dinner at a farm in Cambodia
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Scientists in South Korea have been credited with originally genetically-engineering double-muscle hogs to avert a future pork shortage crisis.
They carefully altered pig genes to create super-sized swines capable of producing more meat than usual breeds.
Farmyard footage shows similar porky 'monsters' that look like they’ve been gorging on steroids or even pumping iron in the gym.
The shocking images have been condemned by animal lovers who say the burly pigs are the "stuff of nightmares."
The Facebook page offers to sell sperm and artificial insemination kits for others to breed the pigs
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The pigs turned their food into muscle at a faster rate than normal
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Bacon butties ...the impressive muscle tone of a new breed of super-sized pig
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Giant hogs were first developed at Seoul National University, in South Korea, by microbiologists on a mission to create more meat.
Jin-Soo Kim, who led the work, said: “We could do this through breeding. But then it would take decades.”
Years of cross-breeding has already created the enormous Belgian Blue cattle as featured by the Sun Online on Saturday.
But Kim’s team have by-passed this method and created the bulked-up pigs by tinkering with a “myostatin gene”.
Pork life ...the pigs have been created to yield more meat
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The muscle tone also produces more delicious but less fatty pork
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Animals lovers reacted with fury after seeing pictures of the 'grotesque' pigs
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This gene usually keeps the growth of muscle cells in check, but when it is altered this does not happen and the pig grows to more than twice its normal size.
The genetic editing also produces a higher muscle mass which means more meat is yielded and it also a lot less fatty.
Kim and his colleagues originally produced more than 30 piglets.
However, new images from a the farm in Banteay Meanchey, Cambodia shows the giant pig business is booming with pens packed full of porkers.
The farmer raising the pigs is even offering to sell the sperm to others looking to breed the giants.
Facebook pictures show a pig pen full of giant porkers
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He also shared video footage of the muscle-bound animals squealing as they fight over food.
Scientists insist the mutation is safe because rather than transplanting genetic information from one species to another they have simply edited genes.
However, at the moment no country allows its people to eat the genetically modified products.
The EU bans any importing of genetically modified food into member states amid fears for the safety and quality of the meat.
The UK Food Standards Agency said all genetically modified (GM) food has to undergo a rigorous safety assessment before it is permitted to be placed on the EU market.
Animal-lovers reacted with a mixture of horror and fury after viewing the images online.
One wrote: “This is grotesque! Obviously bred like this. Are there no laws to stop this sort of thing. Ugh!”
Another called the images “unbelievably disgusting”.
And a third commented: “What the f*** is this nightmare!!!!???”
Animal rights organisation Peta also blasted the “disturbing” images of the “double-muscled” animals.
PETA's Mimi Bekhechi told Sun Online: “Hulk-like pigs are the stuff of nightmares, not meals, and those who are genetically engineered are also likely to be born with painful health issues.
“When South Korean and Chinese scientists created 32 double-muscled piglets in 2015, only one was considered even marginally healthy.
“We urge anyone disturbed by the thought of eating manipulated and mutilated pig flesh to bypass the bacon.”
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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