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Canadian Scientists Develop "Antibody Spice"
worst_name_ever writes "Scientists in Canada have developed a substance that can be added to foods to kill germs. Apparently, though, this longevity-producing spice is derived from freeze-dried egg yolks and not from giant sandworms as I would have guessed."
And Mexican scientists discovered the secrets of the sand worm...
Keep your packets off my GNU/Girlfriend!
That's just great! So I can kill off germs in my food, but my choresterol will go sky high!!?!
Have you compiled your kernel today??
Bull. The substance is called spice because it sounds better than preservative. Many preservatives are natural just like this one. Many spices are preservatives. This chemical has not taste. It's not a spice.
Is anyone else scared that the Canadians will make a race of genetically superior "Super Girl Groups"
"Antibody Spice" is just the beginning!
Be afraid, be very afraid!
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Isn't it healthy to eat a few "bad" germs so your body can build a healthy resistance to them?
Which one of the Spice Girls is that? Is that the one who was kidnapped or was that Sporty Spice?
NaCl.
You saw it here first.
I am not your blowing wind, I am the lightning.
What about people allergic to eggs? Will there soon be no edible food for them? Evolution in action I guess...
The spice will be most useful when traditional sanitation safeguards (i.e. rinsing, refrigeration, and thorough cooking) are unavailable or unreliable, the researcher says.
Does this mean more fecal matter in your food now that this will lower the incidence of foodborne illness?
Will this new spice give users that distinctive "yolk on yolk" color?
And does this mean the Egg Council may become as powerful as the Spacing Guild?
Is it just me or were you guys reminded of a terrible, yet famous, girl band from a few years ago? Perhaps this new member was all they need to get back together.
As this kind of food techologies emerge the diet of human beings gets further from natural food. It is all the artificial content of our food (including the genetic one) that gives and will give Cancer and other actual and future diseases strength. Just plant some vegetables on your back yard and provide yourself some health.
Well, where else are we gonna find food? We're already on our way to depleting natural resources. Everything humanity does on the large scale is leading to the need for creating artifical resources. It is in our charter is it not? What other outcome can there be? Will you ask humanity to turn back from greed and consumption (which in turn leads to "innovation")? Good luck. My heart goes out to you, but I'm a realist (not to be confused with a pessimist), not a visionary or an optimist.
"Last one in is a rotten goblin!" - Kepp
There was similar work done with Tobasco sauce as a way to kill off bacterium in raw oysters a few years back. Anyone have a recollection on how that came out?
Prospecting Stinks. Stop Wasting Time on Cold Calling.
Is that the scientists idea of an attractive anti-ho?
Sleep with skanky Posh Spice, then you develop Antibody Spice!
Vegetarians (not ovo-vegetarians) and vegans, like me? :-)
Actually, I'm not worried. Any food that contains this ingredient will have an allergy warning, so I'll just not eat it. It'll just push folks like me closer to fully fresh food. A good thing.
..controls the universe.
And I have the power to destroy the spice, forever!
(Cue Toto soundtrack)
She was Sporty Spice's sister - the short-lived replacement for Ginger Spice.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
And I thought that the Spice Girls were gone forever. When will the madness stop?!
Great, now lets try our best to minimise food standards and maximise potential for creating a super bug that crushes the world under its limp feet, and ten takes over slashdot, and installs, i dunno, .net, and allows all the computer viruses to grow, and generally causes a lot of mess.
Basically anything that aids the food industry in making more money by treating consumers even worse than the animals that they feed on a cannabalistic diet, is bad news for us.
A hint, vote with you mouths people. The more people who buy better produce, the more produce browers will grow better produce.
Also, we must strengthen laws on food labelling, as consumer confusion is the best thing since sliced bread for people who, erm, perhaps make bread and want to sell it to confused consumers.
I think I have lost the plot. Must be all them E numbers. Are they prime?
Hamburger Helper Antibacterial
The new "spice" will be sold in high flow shakers, becasue (everybody now) "The spice must flow"
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
About 1 in 3 chicken is infected with salmonella. Eating undercooked chicken is the most common cause of food poisoning. Since eggs pass through the rear of the hen, a lot of eggs is infected with salmonella too. Thats why use of non-pasteurised egg products (i.e. mayonaise) is banned in US. Now, this antibody requires 1. hens to be given vaccination shots, alot of them 2. their eggs being freeze dried. 3. taking this wonderful non-sterile egg-powder and sprinkling it onto lousy food from wending machine or 7/24 truck food stop. They should at least include 100% alcohol or radiation treatment step during the manufacture of this stuff, to keep us from getting a food-borne sicknes from such "antibody"
I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
What will they think of next, non-caloric, non-nutritive foods you eat to lose weight? Oops, Gaiman and Pratchett already did that one.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
yuk yuk!
...and he grinned, like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush.
what happens to bacteria already in your system?
what happens when the antibody now in your digestive tract gets noticed by your OWN immune system?
What happens if you're allergic to eggs? Is it possible to develop this in a different medium?
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