Bring Home the Biotech Bacon

Wired is reporting that researchers may have found the key to "heart friendly bacon." From the article: "Geneticists have mixed DNA from the roundworm C. elegans and pigs to produce swine with significant amounts of omega-3 fatty acids -- the kind believed to stave off heart disease. Researchers hope they can improve the technique in pork and do the same in chickens and cows. In the process, they also want to better understand human disease."

Comments

Sounds like a rabbit's foot

[BadAnalogyGuy]

Good for us... Not so good for the pig or the rabbit.

Vincent: Want some bacon?
Jules: No man, I don't eat pork.
Vincent: Are you Jewish?
Jules: Nah, I ain't Jewish, I just don't dig on swine, that's all.
Vincent: Why not?
Jules: Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.
Vincent: Bacon tastes gooood. Pork chops taste gooood.
Jules: Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfucker. Pigs sleep and root in shit. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got enough sense enough to disregard its own faeces.
Vincent: How about a dog? Dogs eats its own feces.
Jules: I don't eat dog either.
Vincent: Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal?
Jules: I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy but they're definitely dirty. But, a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.
Vincent: Ah, so by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal. Is that true?
Jules: Well we'd have to be talkin' about one charmin' motherfuckin' pig. I mean he'd have to be ten times more charmin' than that Arnold on Green Acres, you know what I'm sayin'?

Re:Sounds like a rabbit's foot

[Liam Slider]

A dog is merely doing what other animals do with a food which is difficult to digest: they re-digest it

Uh-huh....now explain to me their whole cat shit fetish Mr. Wizard. They'll snarf that shit down like it was candy.

Instead of bacon...

[hobotron]

We get bacon with worms?

I think someone didn't run this by marketing.

Re:Fatty

[sexylicious]

You can still get trichonosis or tapeworm from infected meat, like regular pork.

But if that's the case, you could market it as a weight-loss program too!

Re:What about the animals?

[CosmeticLobotamy]

Preliminary studies show they still mostly die of having their heads lopped off and getting shoved into meat grinders.

Boneless chickens

[adisakp]

Now all we need to do is biologically engineer boneless chickens for those tasty "boneless" chicken wings :-)