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Creating Prion-Free Cows

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the un-mad-cows dept.

Science Daily is reporting that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is reporting positive results from a recent study designed to create genetically engineered prion-free cattle. From the article: "ARS studied eight Holstein males that were developed by Hematech Inc., a pharmaceutical research company based in Sioux Falls, S.D. The evaluation of the prion-free cattle was led by veterinary medical officer Juergen Richt of ARS' National Animal Disease Center (NADC) in Ames, Iowa. The evaluation revealed no apparent developmental abnormalities in the prion-free cattle."

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  1. A better idea by OriginalArlen · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Prion-free cows have already been invented; they're called vegetables. I've been veggie for about 10 years now (since reading a study in the Lancet or BMJ - I forget which - reporting a massive 40-year longitudinal study of a very large sample, 100,000 or so IIRC, showing vegetarians lived 10-15% longer (controlling for other factors like smoking, alcohol, social-economic status etc.)

    Since then I've found other reasons not to eat meat, namely a feeling that the animals would probably prefer not to be eaten, the environmental stuff, yadda yadda. But I'm basically selfish :)

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    1. Re:A better idea by IMightB · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      PETA == People for the Eating of Tasty Animals

  2. mmm, prions by _Shorty-dammit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    erggggghlglghgallgglhgggl

  3. Beautiful! by superswede · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Beautiful!

  4. Re:*Puts on tin-foil hat* by _Shorty-dammit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yes, my post was a bad joke about losing memory :P