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[http://wiki.skeptiforum.org/wiki/Scientific_Literature_on_GMOs Here's a good resource from the skeptiforum wiki] | |||
According to estimates, between 80 and 90 per cent of cheese in the USA and Great Britain is manufactured using chymosin produced using gene technology[http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/database/enzymes/83.chymosin.html].Most of the rest is produced using rennet extracted from the stomachs of suckling calves[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennet#Production_of_natural_calf_rennet]. "Take your pick: eat GMO cheese, or be a baby-killer?" | According to estimates, between 80 and 90 per cent of cheese in the USA and Great Britain is manufactured using chymosin produced using gene technology[http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/database/enzymes/83.chymosin.html].Most of the rest is produced using rennet extracted from the stomachs of suckling calves[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennet#Production_of_natural_calf_rennet]. "Take your pick: eat GMO cheese, or be a baby-killer?" | ||
Revision as of 23:27, 3 July 2014
Environmental Impact of Dairy Industry
ToDo: Copy the stuff from the BioCoder article here. Link UN report on impact of dairy industry.
Anti-GMO Sentiments
Here's a good resource from the skeptiforum wiki
According to estimates, between 80 and 90 per cent of cheese in the USA and Great Britain is manufactured using chymosin produced using gene technology[1].Most of the rest is produced using rennet extracted from the stomachs of suckling calves[2]. "Take your pick: eat GMO cheese, or be a baby-killer?"
The "Yuck Factor": Eating Human Proteins
Even among people who are perfectly willing to contemplate genetically engineered cheese, there seems to be a distinct "yuck factor" regarding using the human genes, even though there could be significant health benefits to doing so.
As an additional mind-twister: if we use the human reference sequence, we would essentially be making cheese from Craig Venter's genes...