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GMO products
GMO products that will make your brain
For some time now it has become fashionable to deal with genetically modified food.
But this is unlikely to stop their development.
"Frankenryba»
Instead of the usual salmon
At the moment, "frankenryba" investigated by the Office of FDA Food and Drug Administration. The brainchild of AquaBounty threatens to develop the market of transgenic fish, "similar to conventional Atlantic salmon».
It sounds like a win-win business model, but environmentalists say that if GMO salmon somehow fall into the usual natural conditions, it will begin to reduce the population of Atlantic salmon has more. In addition, long-term prospects impact on human health is not known.
Purple tomatoes
The emphasis on antioxidants
Just remember the series "The Simpsons" with tomatoes crossed with tobacco, is not it? But the reality is more prosaic.
In conventional tomatoes dark color gives tomatoes pigment anthocyanin, a known antioxidant, is also contained in blueberries and cranberries, which helps the body fight cancer and other diseases.
"In these tomatoes you can get the same chemicals that are in blueberries or cranberries," - said Professor Kathy Martin, one of the curators of the project on creation of artificial tomatoes.
Recent studies, however, show that large quantities of antioxidants may also be harmful for people with certain types of cancer. Critics of GMOs are also saying: "Nature has come up with all the products that we need deystvitlno" - says the founder of EatDrinkPolitics.com, activist Michel Simon.
Supersvini
Genetic changes pig manure
A typical pig feed in the United States, Canada and many other countries is made from corn and other grains that are known even to people who are not too good for assimilation. Phosphorus in these cultures - a separate issue, and the output pig manure can be toxic to surrounding farmland water bodies and the environment.
"The problem is not in pigs, - said Kathy Holtslender of the Beyond Factory Farming, - The problem of industrialization and mass rearing of pigs in which they are fattened only for the masses". Phytase nutritional supplement designed to help the pig to digest and absorb phosphorus without harm. And, of course, all this does not apply to wild pigs are not fed crops.
Apple 2.0
Another beautiful
So far, this development seems less necessary and is also waiting for the approval of the Office for the Supervision santiranomu. The company Okanagan Specialty Fruits introduced genetic additive, allowing apples to darken no matter how long ago it was cut.
Association of the United States in the apple do not yet know how to treat this. "Can such apples and do not constitute a threat to health, but the question is how the buyer will perceive this innovation. How to change his attitude to the apples as a whole? So is it necessary? "- Says Wendy Brannen.
Cabbage scorpion
Instead of pesticides
Scientists from Beijing, China, went further, deciding to act in the best traditions of Asian sophistication. They took the strain of cabbage, which contains its own poison, poisonous caterpillars of harmful pesticides and without the aid of external chemicals. Caterpillars that attack cabbage die, and to man the toxin, the assurance of scientists is harmless.
Corn Killer
Able to protect themselves
While most of the genetically modified corn used in animal feed, ethanol and processed foods, this particular species is on the shelves of the United States since 2012. It is derived from the genes of three beta toxins making corn insecticide by itself.
What does it mean? For example, if corn cobs attacked some crap like insects or parasites, maize itself may be protected. In addition, it contains the so-called gene «Roundup Ready», which makes corn resistant to herbicides and agricultural-chemicals.
Finally, breast milk. Now from ordinary cows.
Animals learn human skills
Of course, we used to think that feeding the offspring, at least in the early stages of life, it is something with which people cope better than an animal. In China, however, do much to dairy cows could compete with her mother in a question-feeding human baby.
Chinese scientists have introduced human genes into embryos cows back in 2011, creating the cows, whose milk "is identical to the human species and has the same imunnostimuliruyuschimi and antibacterial qualities as breast».
The product is still being tested, but animal welfare advocates, as you know, do not share the enthusiasm of scientists. In two experiments, 10 of the 42 experimental calves died shortly after birth. The representative of the RSPCA UK said the organization was "very worried" about how were these cows.
The Chinese, on the other hand, refer to the high content of protein in the milk and substances inherent to human breast milk. With regard to the safety of such milk for health, the point here is not set, it seems, for a long time. Genetically modified milk only for an extensive clinical trials.
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For some time now it has become fashionable to deal with genetically modified food.
But this is unlikely to stop their development.
"Frankenryba»
Instead of the usual salmon
At the moment, "frankenryba" investigated by the Office of FDA Food and Drug Administration. The brainchild of AquaBounty threatens to develop the market of transgenic fish, "similar to conventional Atlantic salmon».
It sounds like a win-win business model, but environmentalists say that if GMO salmon somehow fall into the usual natural conditions, it will begin to reduce the population of Atlantic salmon has more. In addition, long-term prospects impact on human health is not known.
Purple tomatoes
The emphasis on antioxidants
Just remember the series "The Simpsons" with tomatoes crossed with tobacco, is not it? But the reality is more prosaic.
In conventional tomatoes dark color gives tomatoes pigment anthocyanin, a known antioxidant, is also contained in blueberries and cranberries, which helps the body fight cancer and other diseases.
"In these tomatoes you can get the same chemicals that are in blueberries or cranberries," - said Professor Kathy Martin, one of the curators of the project on creation of artificial tomatoes.
Recent studies, however, show that large quantities of antioxidants may also be harmful for people with certain types of cancer. Critics of GMOs are also saying: "Nature has come up with all the products that we need deystvitlno" - says the founder of EatDrinkPolitics.com, activist Michel Simon.
Supersvini
Genetic changes pig manure
A typical pig feed in the United States, Canada and many other countries is made from corn and other grains that are known even to people who are not too good for assimilation. Phosphorus in these cultures - a separate issue, and the output pig manure can be toxic to surrounding farmland water bodies and the environment.
"The problem is not in pigs, - said Kathy Holtslender of the Beyond Factory Farming, - The problem of industrialization and mass rearing of pigs in which they are fattened only for the masses". Phytase nutritional supplement designed to help the pig to digest and absorb phosphorus without harm. And, of course, all this does not apply to wild pigs are not fed crops.
Apple 2.0
Another beautiful
So far, this development seems less necessary and is also waiting for the approval of the Office for the Supervision santiranomu. The company Okanagan Specialty Fruits introduced genetic additive, allowing apples to darken no matter how long ago it was cut.
Association of the United States in the apple do not yet know how to treat this. "Can such apples and do not constitute a threat to health, but the question is how the buyer will perceive this innovation. How to change his attitude to the apples as a whole? So is it necessary? "- Says Wendy Brannen.
Cabbage scorpion
Instead of pesticides
Scientists from Beijing, China, went further, deciding to act in the best traditions of Asian sophistication. They took the strain of cabbage, which contains its own poison, poisonous caterpillars of harmful pesticides and without the aid of external chemicals. Caterpillars that attack cabbage die, and to man the toxin, the assurance of scientists is harmless.
Corn Killer
Able to protect themselves
While most of the genetically modified corn used in animal feed, ethanol and processed foods, this particular species is on the shelves of the United States since 2012. It is derived from the genes of three beta toxins making corn insecticide by itself.
What does it mean? For example, if corn cobs attacked some crap like insects or parasites, maize itself may be protected. In addition, it contains the so-called gene «Roundup Ready», which makes corn resistant to herbicides and agricultural-chemicals.
Finally, breast milk. Now from ordinary cows.
Animals learn human skills
Of course, we used to think that feeding the offspring, at least in the early stages of life, it is something with which people cope better than an animal. In China, however, do much to dairy cows could compete with her mother in a question-feeding human baby.
Chinese scientists have introduced human genes into embryos cows back in 2011, creating the cows, whose milk "is identical to the human species and has the same imunnostimuliruyuschimi and antibacterial qualities as breast».
The product is still being tested, but animal welfare advocates, as you know, do not share the enthusiasm of scientists. In two experiments, 10 of the 42 experimental calves died shortly after birth. The representative of the RSPCA UK said the organization was "very worried" about how were these cows.
The Chinese, on the other hand, refer to the high content of protein in the milk and substances inherent to human breast milk. With regard to the safety of such milk for health, the point here is not set, it seems, for a long time. Genetically modified milk only for an extensive clinical trials.
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