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Revision as of 23:26, 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
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...