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Ry Jones writes "The brits have found a way to maximize the best part of a chicken. "
The scary thing is that I suspect this is going to get a lot
wierder...
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Then I could masturbate just by clinching my fist and rubbing it around a little, and I wouldn't even have to reach inside my pants. I could also fuck a girl and get a blowjob from her at the same time. Wow.
when it clearly is US scientists causing the flap.
Yep - I am the Anonymous Coward responsible for the so-so joke and I am not called Grell :-)
. . . if you took your gloves off in public
:)
I actually killed my own chickens on the farm when I was a kid. ( For food )
whew. for a moment there, i thought it was just senseless terrorism
Being a vegetarian myself, I have mixed feelings about this article..
On the one hand, it could decrease the slaughter of chickens if fewer chickens can produce more of the most popular parts. This would also lessen the negative enviromental impact that large-scale animal farming has...
On the other, it's still killing an animal needlessly: and even worse, it's an animal we created.
Disrupting evolution like this disturbs me.
And besides, chicken is still one of the more unhealthy meats.
Oh well, maybe it's for the better...
i have heared a joke about this:
there's a man driving in a car and suddenly he sees
this chicken with 3 legs walking beside him. He thinks it's very
strange and decides to follow the chicken. The
chicken then arrives at a farm. So the man goes
to talk with the farmer and ask how that is possible.
the farmer replies that it is biogenetic engineerd
because his family where always fighting about the legs.
So the man ask : 'and, do 3 legged chickens taste better'.
the farmer replies : 'i don't know, because i couldn't catch them yet !'
I agree.. this is gone past being genetically 'enhanced' this is genetically mutated.. I for sure would never knowingly eat a chicken with 4 legs...
have we gone too far?
Biologists have been learning about how growth works by transplanting parts of chicken embryos for a long time. I remember reading about such things 25 years ago when I first became interested. The only difference here is the ability to do gene tinkering rather than just moving pieces around.
Umm, Gerry Adams has 'British Citizen' in big letters in his UK passport. How else do you think he got elected as a member of the British parliament?
Time to rethink that metaphor...
...does it taste like chicken?
umm, you don't have to be a citizen of the UK to be elected to the Hof P
Biologists call pretty much any changes, engineered or not, in a genotype of an organism 'mutations'. All of us carry quite a few mutations in each of our cells. Ironically enough, the chick in the article only had a somatic mutation, engineered locally in one limb long after fertisation. This kind of mutation would not be inherited by offspring, so they are not yet breeding and all-legs-no-wings chickens.
You don't want to get salmonella, do you? :)
Apparantly a lot of the bananas produced these days have some DNA from some kind of nut engineered into them. I'm not sure what it does, but one of the side affects is that people with allergies to nuts can get sick from eating these bananas. I think the bananas are another Monsanto product as well.
Hmmm, and then there's the evil Chiquita banana corporation. The one that went after that reporter who had copies of phone messages from their internal message system. The messages basically revealed that they were committing human rights violations in some of the countries they own. They went after the reporter for theft of intellectual property (the phone messages). I think he may have gone to jail. Not sure offhand. In any case, the newspaper folded like a wet tissue and retracted the story. Nothing happened to the Chiquita Banana people.
Anyhoo, isn't it great to know that such great, trustworthy folks are responsible for supplying you with your food? I know I am. Boy do I feel safe, yes siree Bob.
"To mutate" means "to change". Something that is mutated is simply changed in some way. People have gotten into the habit of referring to mutation when they actually mean genetic mutation. But, any sort of change could be considered a mutation.
Wouldn't this make all baby boys kind of disgusting for a mother to show her friends???
..."
"Ohh, yes, he's still in that phase you know...still always sucking his
Yeah, and the US want to export all this ugly stuff to Europe. They want to sell hormone enhanced beef too... damn, I had enough with the mad cow disease (another capitalist economy result), the US can keep it's poison for it's own market. I hope the European Union will not give up on the Banana war too. Monsanto is like Microsoft : they don't care what they sell as long as people are ignorant enough to buy their stuff.
I would not be found dead eating that!
It's "weird" not "wierd"
Am I the only one getting annoyed by the grammar/spelling mistakes made in 1/2 of the posts he makes?
It is in England, because Tatcher and her minions gave up to the agriculture lobby who funded them and lowered the rules for producing protein flours. Now European don't want to take anymore risk with their health and that's why we don't want this hormones fed US beef, as well as all Monsantos poison. The US try to protect its agriculture lobby, and the EU try to protect its citizen health. Like always, the US governement doesn't care of peoples, just it's own personnal interests (see Vietnam, south america, Iraq, etc...).
If you are concerned about food safety and quality, there are much bigger fish to fry. In particular, the rampant use of antibiotics in raising animals creates resistant and highly dangerous bacterial strains, and the use of hormones in animal feeds also should be cause for concern.
I wonder why nature hasn't developed a breed of critter that's outside the food chain. Something that tastes bad to everything and breeds like a porn show. Sure it would be bad for the world, but I see nature as a random force and not an intellectual one.
don't humans fall into this category? we have no natural enemy (though other humans are our `unnatural' ones, ie we don't kill to eat each other) and we have placed ourselves at the top of the food-chain due to our tool-making abilities. and look what happened -- we overran the earth and are sucking it dry of its resources. nature will likely eventually detect this (it may have already), and we may be destroyed by some mechanism it creates, if not ourselves.
How manny asses on that monkey?
Why did the 3 legged chicken cross the road?
Funny thing, I -am- currently vegetarian,
:)
but as soon as someone starts producing
embryos that develop without forming a
brain, or growing meat in vats, I shall
reclassify such things as vegetables,
and stop being so bloody picky.
Different strokes, eh?
You know.. I've never seen that lump of
'meat' in the kebab shop being replaced..
Aaaaaarggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!
This article has NOTHING to do with genitically engineered food. Its about medical research.
This gives me the shits. Whenever genetic engineering is mentioned, even so-called educated people immediately start talking about 4-legged chickens turning up on peoples tables.
It only gets worse when the average idiot sees it. And of course the anti-science bible bashing loonies will have a field day with it.
For what it's worth, the research has nothing to do with producing consumer edibles. They are attempting to understand what controls development of limbs in embryos, with the hope that someday we will be able to prevent deformities in humans by understanding why they happen. In that light, I think it's very valuable research and should definitely be done.
And besides, everyone knows that the best part of a chicken is the breast meat.
Doug
I was told in school that every cell (except some blood cells)
contains a nucleus (or whatever that is in English)
which contains copies of all the creature's genes.
The story says the scientists took foot genes and moved them to the wing,
but shouldn't the genes already have been there, just inactive?
Could someone educate me a little?
I'm vegetarian (well, vegan) also.
I live in the UK... I've been paying
attention to the GMO thing and it
seems that many products are clearly
labelled as containing GMO products,
or have actually been recently re-designed
without GMO ingredients.
There's also a good 'organic' section
in the local supermarket's fruit&veg
section.
-- a. t. f.
The Chicken is there to eat, along with cows, horses, oxen, fowl, deer, hogs, fish, and other assorted tasty meats.
You self-indulget hippies need to wise up.
Meat is good, and there is a building base of knowledge that supports evidence that vegans, and vegetarians have substantially higher rates of Cancer to boot.
Rev. Horton Heat
The Chicken is there to eat, along with cows, horses, oxen, fowl, deer, hogs, fish, and other assorted tasty meats.
You self-indulget hippies need to wise up.
Meat is good, and there is a building base of knowledge that supports evidence that vegans, and vegetarians have substantially higher rates of Cancer to boot.
I even have a nice set of steer horns on my Caddie.
Rev. Horton Heat
*cough*bollocks*cough*
Heheheh... hippie... how about this hippie kicking your lame ass all over the shop?
Not Likely Hippie.
;)
:)
I am 600lbs. of SIN.
And if you are a 'real' hippie, that would put you around 50 yrs old, and you would be easy pickin's for a Country boy like me. Not that I was raised to fight hippies
BTW: There is a point in which threads like this create Sarcasm, let's see if your protien-starved brain can find it.
Rev. HH
Thanks for pointing that out.. there are probably
alot of small minds like yourself reading the story that just can't get the whole picture because of that misspelling... Hey! i got an idea.. why don't you crown yourself king of the small minds and let everyone know whenever anybody makes a spelling mistake k?
Rob: Just ignore this loser.. we all appreciate what your doing here.
-Bastard
Cancer rates higher? Got a source on that?
Protien decificient? Heh.
The USDA's RDA of bread and wheat products is sufficient protien for the day.
What is important in a vegetarian diet are amino acids - the building blocks of protien - and a large variety of them. Legumes (beans, nuts, peas) provide a more diverse selection of amino acids than do meat. Then, my diet including increased intake of legumes, is higher and more diverse in amino acids than the typical American's meat based diet.
Guess what? All meats contain several compounds which are suspected carcinogens. I have read nowhere (reputable, anyway) that vegetarians have higher rates of cancer, which is now being linked to several strains of virii for that matter, but on the contrary. Vegetarians have a higher average life span, and lower risks of cancer.
Unlike your mindless babble, I'm including sources for my claims:
http://www.vegsoc.org/Research/cancer.html
Specifically, vegetarians have lower incidents of the following types of cancer:
colon, breast, ovarian, and prostate.
The four above have been linked specifically to meats. (This is from another source, URL unavailable but reference possible upon request.)
My post wasn't an arguement for vegetarianism, I was just musing on what the original guy had to say about "going vegetarian" -- I had mixed feelings about the article.
Your name calling is of course far too immature for me even to address.
YES! This rocks nads!
Remember kids! It's only one step from four-legged chickens to six-breasted women. HOORAY!
Apperently you just did not get the Sarcasm. Lighten up man. The '600 lbs of SIN' line refers to the Grateful Dead song "Direwolf". In case you havent noticed, no name calling was ever mentioned, beyond the origonal use of 'hippie'. If you are too slow and want me to go into further detail on the word Sarcasm, please let me know.
Rev HH
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Posted by AnnoyingMouseCoward:
Unlikely. Flight depends on a lot of other things.
For a start, pigs have solid bones and birds have hollow bones, so you would have to change the pigs bone structure first.
Pigs use fat for insulation ( which makes them heavy ), while birds use feathers. So you would have to engineer the pig to have feathers and a much lower fat content.
Then thers the problem of the nervous system. You would have to re-wire the pigs nervous system and remove the front legs so that those neural pathways could be used for wing control.
So nope, pigs won't fly. By the time you re-engineered the pig so that it could fly, it wouldn't be a pig any more. It would have become a bird and wouldn't look much like a pig at all.
Just my 2 pork chops worth.
With questions about nerve bandwidth hitting ask slashdot, medical dramas hitting the box office, top rated medical shows taking over prime time, now is a good time to back off from the star studded, super competitive, glamourfest world of biology and become a geek.
I'm just trying to get them approved by the FDA...
Pigs have four legs "protruding".
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Christ! look at that picture!
That does it!
I've gone vegetarian!
t_t_b
(Remember: even chickens were birds, once..)
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Don't blame us 'brits' for that monstrosity
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Apparently they changed their name from Kentucky Fried Chicken to KFC, because they use genetically engineered birds which are legally not "chickens" anymore.
I've got the impression that US government doesn't care about the people too, but seriously do you think EU does???
The whole point with that damn union is to make something big and powerful and get rid of that disturbing democrazy thing. Mighty people in Europe haven't ruled the world for *years* and how fun is it to play Civilization Live(tm) without a big empire? (And we all know how annoying it is to get voted down when you try to start a fun little war.)
I wanna get off!
This is getting too weird...
8-|
Some years ago, when trying to explain the future of bioengeneering to a friend I made the joke that bioengineers may ultimately try to produce a chicken that when shouted at died immediatly of heart attack, looses all feathers and resolves into a couple of chicken nuggets.
When faced with the real image in the featured article, I must say the joke is not so funny anymore.
Albeit todays domestic animals were shaped by man too, such deep meddling with evolution goes far too far for my taste.
> I've gone vegetarian!
I did already. But what good is it, if you as customer, can't decide if there is anything genetically tempered with in your food?
Of course the food industry is not stupid, they know that when they are forced to put a "gen soja" or "gen corn" on their packaging, many won't buy it. So they work against proper labeling.
> i can see an onslaught of "god didn't intend
> for chickens to have three legs" bible-thumpers
> coming from their corners to protest this one.
In my case you can leave out religous arguments, but indeed my feeling is that this is not a good thing to do.
Of course, if man does take chicken evolution this way, it is as "natural" as influencing this evolution by traditional selection and breeding. We are a part of nature so it is natural.
But do the scientists right now really understand what they do? I don't think so. It seems like take this gene here and put it there, lets switch some sequences here and there and lets see what will happen. Trial and error mostly.
To be honnest I cannot say what will happen in the future, maybe the biological systems are so fault tolerant, that it will indeed lead only to chicken with more tasty bits, but I would be not surprised at all, if it will have side effects of the strangest, well even deadliest kinds.
We don't know right now.
Imagine the possibilities what you can get from an egg. Instead of the whole chicken from an egg, only a little drumstick is hatched. Wow.
Then there's the whole push (again by Monsanto) to get 3rd world farmers to ditch native species in favour of ones wit the "terminator gene complex" which allows only one genration of crop (the sees of that crop are sterile).
Oh, yeah... it seems that the terminator gene can be transferred via pollen to non-terminator stock and apparently to other related specied too.
scared yet..?
_DHMS
I actually killed my own chickens on the farm when I was a kid. ( For food )
I don't think I could actually touch one of these.
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I suppose that is what terrorism is. isn't it?
Of course if you don't have a huge tax supported army what else can you do?
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this doesn't have anything to do with the bible, or with God. If you want to eat mutated chicken, go for it, but I'd just assume eat food that hasn't been messed with.
Genetically engineered food might one day be acceptable, but I don't want it anymore than I will eat meat or dairy products produced by hormone enhanced antibiotic abused cattle.
Andrew Gardner
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, its too dark to read.
No crap to shovel, no hair removal, no organs to worry about.. just meat. This is definantly a PHD research work waiting to happen.
Imagine an all white meat chicken, mmmm.
Vegetarianly yours,
James
Well if it isn't Chicken McGregg, with a leg for a wing and a wing for a leg!
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...and silly me always thought the best part was the WING!
There's no way in hell I'd eat a chicken that had four legs protruding out of it. That's just gross. Imagine what a Thanksgiving turkey would look like?
I think I'd much prefer a nice grain-fed non-genetic-mutant non-chemically-enhanced chicken.
I want dark. White is always too dry.
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2. Get a lot of cookies.
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Forget extra legs. Let's eliminate the head, the bones, most internal organs, and the inefficient, irregular shape. Yes, folks, this is the first step toward the ideal: the Vat of Meat.
All the Vat of Meat needs is muscle, a basic circulatory and digestive system, a bit of fat, skin to hold things in (and cook up tasty), and nerves triggered from outside by computerized equipment to give the muscle some tone by making it twitch at regular intervals.
For real good chicken Mcnugget & hotwing prices about 2 yrs down the road. Because pure research aside, you know someone in a food lab just wet themselves over this one.
~Grell
"Well, I mean, YES idealism, YES the dignity of pure research, YES the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to suspect that if there's any REAL truth, it's that the entire multi-dimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. And if it comes to a choice between spending yet another 10 million years finding that out, and on the other hand just taking the money and running, then I for one could do with the exercise." -- One of the white mice in the Hitchhikers' Guide
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Um Rob, theres something Realllly wrong w/ this post. Namely the fact I didn't write it.
:/ ?
Is there some sort of problem w/ the submission scripting?
~Grell
yeah Im about as British as Gerry Adams man,,
...when it gets down to fundamentals, do what you have to do and shed no tears. Dr. Matson in Tunnel in the Sky
Um, why is this gentleman : User Info for scheme (19778), using or being assigned My handle?
It concerns me a little, ya know? When I click on user info it goes to scheme's page, but the user details then link to mine.
Just thought you should know, in case this is some sort of hack.
~Grell
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know where I can get a big bag of breaded chicken strips???
All I can find is little wussy boxes that are way more expensive.
This sig is false.
i can see an onslaught of "god didn't intend for chickens to have three legs" bible-thumpers coming from their corners to protest this one.
you can't have everything, where would you put it?
I tend to think that's how nature does it, too. Only with the human-controlled chicken environment, the chickens that are best suited to being eaten are allowed to reproduce, rather than the other way around of nature. Come to think of it, I wonder why nature hasn't developed a breed of critter that's outside the food chain. Something that tastes bad to everything and breeds like a porn show. Sure it would be bad for the world, but I see nature as a random force and not an intellectual one. But back to the original point, I don't think that nature causing mutations is better or worse than humans doing so. Nature (I believe) doesn't have a Plan for it's mutations. Most of it's experiments are horrible flops and don't even make it out of the womb, much less proceed to create a discoverable species. If mankind creates a 5-assed chicken and lets it loose into the wild, I'll just bet it will either find an embarrassing niche in nature or it won't. Most likely won't, and nature will never know the difference between this one failed mutation and the countless others before and after it.
I don't think nature is so resilient as it is dynamic. Perhaps it will change from what you think it "ought to be" but will continue to flourish along whatever track it does. Mankind may be able to create animals better suited to the environments mankind creates (cages, apartments, workstations, etc.), but I really doubt something like a miniature pinscher would find a place in a forest of bears, ticks, and wolves (who in turn are having a hard time finding a place in man's world).
So, mutation is simply mutation. Whether it's good or bad based on what causes it is a subjective matter.
Work is for people who lack the imagination to play.
Evolution through technology.
I for one think this is great.
I hope the technology isn't hoarded and I hope it doesn't drive poor chicken farmers in to a worse state. But I do like the technology that allows this stuff to happen.
Eventually it means the cures for all sorts of genetic disorders, from alcholism to obeseity. And yes, it does mean that people will be able to pick which color skin/eyes/etc their kids will have. I don't care. Physical appearence does not matter. Discrimination about appearence is the problem. Hopefully racisim will end when people realize that it genetically doesn't matter. (but by that logic it would have already ended.... hmm, if physical appearence was based on a die role and not on your parents...soon it could be...) Anyway I believe that saving lives is worth it.
(i wish there was a spell check)
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In "The Space Merchants" by Frederic Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth, food is harvested from a 15 yard diameter lump of chicken that was grown from a piece of chicken heart. The thing is called "Chicken Little", it is pumped full of nutrients and "chicken steaks" are shaved from its exterior.
The book is copyrighted 1952, so it predates genetic engineering by a few years.
I kept on thinking of Chicken McNuggets when I read the book.
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I'm not as annoyed at Rob as I am at those asses who use lose/loose incorrectly all the time. Sheesh.
Although the article was interesting I can't help but think that if we looked at the funding list kentucky fried chicken would have to be in there someplace.
the article says that US scientists at Harvard did this, not the brits.
um, yes you do.
You have to be a British national or a Commonwealth national
Where a 'British national' is someone from Great Britain (England,
Scotland & Wales) or N. Ireland
Alan Day - Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, UK
All genes are in all cells, sure. They moved in some extra foot genes - which were active. Probably easier than activating the existing foot genes there.
What if Microsoft figures out how to genetically-reengineer Tux?
---- Dave
Uh, on second thought, once you had engineered a on brain, the subject would immediately cease to be an MS-Minion at all!
I guess we'll just have to go back to adding centipede DNA to the chicken material (chicken stock?) to produce birds with 100 drumsticks!
Of course, my personal preference is breasts, but I'd settle for a way to make them larger instead of more numerous...
As far as I can tell from the article, the main point of the research is to ultimately prevent deformities in human babies by learning the relationships between specific genes and development. At least, I hope that's where the research stays. I sure as hell don't want my local grocer investing in this.
This is research into the genes that control development. By understanding how genes control the devlopment of limbs, we can understand how deformities occur and perhaps how to prevent them.
These "three-legged" chickens were made my manipulating the embryos. These modifications will not be passed on to the next generation. Furthermore, the third "leg" retains some wing-like features.
No one is going to make three-legged chickens especially when each embryo needs to be individually manipulated.
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I once saw some old (1950's at a guess) cartoon about the wonders that science would create for us, such as crossing a chicken with a centipede to produce drumsticks by the hundreds. It seemed funny at the time...
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I would prefer some dark meat too. Variety and all that, right?
Imagine the freaky chicken with 4 legs that walks around like a dog?
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*Pikachu*
Nothing paranoid about this - the Potato famine in
Ireland was caused by the fact that all potato plants in Europe in the last century were bred from two plants brought over centuries before.
And so, when the blight caught - It caught big time
It'd be a lot fairer than the Fiasco that was the Holyfield-Lewis bout last night. :-)
Although it is a BBC article, it says that it was done by US scientists.
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chicken or the leg?
Ever see the 6legged turkey John has on thanksgiving:)
I think they should go for 4 wings.
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Now tell me how long until some sick SOB engineers a woman with four breasts in front and two in back?
;)
Hunh? Tell me!
And how long until they start engineering men to have penises that actually are from horses?
Hunh? Tell me!
Especially now that they really have done penis transplants!
And if you think I'm sick for thinking this stuff up, well, you've got to wonder where the ideas came from in the first place.
Doomed, ladies and gentlemen.
We are all doomed.
If what I said is nonsense,
I'm making a point with it.
If what I said makes perfect sense,
you obviously missed the point.
I bet the extra claws would come in handy in a cockfight! A four-assed chicken couldn't be too far BEHIND!
The article says that this is about seeing which
genes affect development and how limbs get their
identities during development. It has nothing
to do with getting a better chicken for food.
If you look at the picture, its a zygote that's
in the picture not a hatched chick. The mutation
probably is a zygotic lethal anyway and not a viable embyro. This type of research has been
going on for a while(10+ years) so its nothing
really new.
"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it
Biologists have been learning about how growth works by transplanting parts of chicken embryos for a long time.
I was referring to the selective activation of
genes using a viral vector. I realize that you
can probably get similar effects by carefully
grafting groups of cells onto a growing embyros
but I believe that the genetic activation and deactivation of genes didn't come into widespread use until the early 80s. I believe genes like
kruppel, hedgehog, sonic hedgehog, etc. were not
identified until after studies of the zygotic lethals in drosophila embyros in the early and mid 80s.
"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it
Can we now turn legs into wings. And if so. Does this mean that pigs can now fly?
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Um... I thought the big problems with mad cow disease were in England, not the US... but I may be wrong.
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i think you have absolutly no respect for that man.
he's showing his best to bring us every minute
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you complain about these little things ?
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Trust people to mess up something natural. I like a mix of dark and white meat.
I can just imagine going to the supermarket and having to choose from a zillion different genetically bred chickens.
Make mine a low cal, high fibre, caffinated drum stick !!!!
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Am I the only one getting annoyed by the grammar/spelling mistakes made in 1/2 of the posts he makes?
I'm personally more annoyed by the disgusting stuff that these sick scientists are doing.
I wonder why nature hasn't developed a breed of critter that's outside the food chain. Something that tastes bad to everything and breeds like a porn show.
don't humans fall into this category?
No, because humans don't taste bad, apparently. It has been reported that human meat tastes like pork.
*silence*
I'll get me coat.
Now if only we could say the same for the human genome... :(
I'm not scared because of the fact that the spuds are genetically engineered, I'm scared because of the fact that that means that only one strain of potato is in production. As soon as the insects/diseases/fungi/whatever become tolerant to the genetic alterations, that years potato harvest is gone. And if the market can't adapt fast enough to provide enough seeds(or whatever potatoes use) for the next year, then, oh well.
I guess I'm just paranoid.
Reeks of south park's Mephisto and his genetic balls ups...
Doesn't anyone read the papers anymore?
This story is old news that was getting coverage in the Boston area in the middle of last week,
I am surprised that nobody here is commenting upon that. red_shift
Which came first the chicken wing or the leg.
hehe
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They'll burn in the indiscriminate cespool of hell for these atrocities against nature! On the other hand, I could get a lot more done with another pair of arms...
5KLOCpm, world racketball champion, cameos in mortal kombat skits...
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Schwegmann dont got em?
Sams maybe.
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Unlike your Amarican mush, the BBC actually reports global news!. While I hate to point it out (because the UK is traditionally the home of the mad scientist ;) ), this work was done in the US!!
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