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

Doh !

[sane?]

You can just imagine all those marketeers and press people who were planning to use Omega-3 as a marketing tool when they read this recent article.

As they say in the marketing rulebook: Timing is everything

the kind believed to stave off heart disease

[Threni]

> omega-3 fatty acids -- the kind believed to stave off heart disease.

Er...no it's not:

http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,1738 599,00.html

Doubt on Omega-3 benefits

[Elessar]

This may not be so great. This recent story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4838086.stm/ casts doubts on the benefits of omega-3.

Re:good for us

[porcupine8]

You don't sound like a PeTA activist at all. You sound like someone concerned about animal welfare - a movement totally separate from the animal rights philosophies that PeTA et al are espousing. Animal rights activists say humans have no right to use other animals in any way, shape, or form (including food, research, fur, pets) - animal welfare activists say we have the right to use animals, but that right comes with the responsibility to minimize their suffering whenever possible.

In other words, welcome to the sane version of "animal rights". :)