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"Super Bananas" May Save Millions of Lives In Africa
schwit1 (797399) writes "A super-enriched genetically engineered banana will soon go through its first human trial, which will test its effect on vitamin A levels, Australian researchers said Monday. The project plans to have the special banana varieties — enriched with alpha and beta carotene which the body converts to vitamin A — growing in Uganda by 2020. The bananas are now being sent to the United States, and it is expected that the six-week trial measuring how well they lift vitamin A levels in humans will begin soon."
Not in the United States, that's for damn sure. ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
More beach time, fresh oceanfront property to sell and develop, Government grants to try and fix global warming! Every disaster is a business opportunity! What's not to love?
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Wait...you read the article? WTF are you doing hanging around here?
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Most females are super bananas, too.
When GM pot is introduced in Washington or Colorado, hippie heads will explode.
The fact you just pulled that statistic out of your butt speaks volumes more about you than it does any hypothetical "liberals". You look like a knee-jerk muppet conjuring stereotypes of your self-perceived enemies out of thin air in order to berate them in order to appease your own faltering self-image. Weird.
*eye roll*
Why? Does that have more vitamin A than an egg roll?
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
against a man armed with a banana?
Nearly 200 posts and nobody has asked the most important question!
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
You look like a knee-jerk muppet conjuring stereotypes ...
Ha! I parsed that as "muppet-conjuring." I had a fleeting image of the Count as a muppet necromancer. One, two, three, four! Four muppet zombies! ah ah ah ah.
When I romp on the accelerator, imagine flower petals coming out of the tail pipe.
#driveforlife
Life is not for the lazy.