Category: transgenic
10/17/05 10:15 - ID#34244
Chinese Transgenic Future Farms
Anyway, the future of food is now:
Friday afternoon we visited a very large corporate village that is financed in part by the Beijing government. This is for Agri- and non-Agri-business activities alike. I toured hydroponics facilities growing lettuce for McDonald's. Each room was twice the length of a football field and about as wide. Cabbage plants were stuffed into a piece of styrofoam with holes in it. The roots from each plant was stuck down into a water solution containing all the nutrienets. It sprouts about 1,000 little cabbages on a piece of foam the size of a computer monitor face.
Then it was off to view all the animal breeding centers: Simental, Black Angus, etc., bulls and cows. Really big ones weighing more than one ton each. Then we saw the Transgenic ones: these are produced by manipulating genetic materials of two different strains. Then we saw the clones: These are produced from say a Holstein cow where you take a skin cell and dissect out the genetic material and replace it with genetic material from another cell, perhaps from the same animal or could even be from a separate animal, and the genetics might even have a special gene in it for some human trait such as the ability to produce human serum albumin.
Quoted from: Talkin' Shit About A Pretty Sunset: Your Food is from China
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