Re: New source of Omega-3's

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Great and I bet this modified chickens n stuff won't be labelled as such in

the future either

Offcourse they don't recognise the fact that the chicken doesn't have extra

fish like omega3 for most likely a REASON!

Just like a salmon don't grow feathers.

When will they learn to instead of trying to GM everything first just put

our current food back its normal vitamin/fat/mineral state

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From: Roman [mailto:romeml@...]

Sent: Thursday, 5 February 2004 4:30 PM

Subject: New source of Omega-3's

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994644

Roman

[Guest guest]

---What is preventing them from GMO'ing humans? Democracy?

In , " Byron "

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> Great and I bet this modified chickens n stuff won't be labelled as

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> From: Roman [mailto:romeml@h...]

> Sent: Thursday, 5 February 2004 4:30 PM

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> Great and I bet this modified chickens n stuff won't be labelled as

such in

> the future either

>

> Offcourse they don't recognise the fact that the chicken doesn't

have extra

> fish like omega3 for most likely a REASON!

>

> Just like a salmon don't grow feathers.

>

> When will they learn to instead of trying to GM everything first

just put

> our current food back its normal vitamin/fat/mineral state

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Yo ! Great post! You must've had a good breakfast today!

bang, bang, bang, bang! Four sentences, four great points!

Your fourth point fits in with what depresses me most about current

food research--huge efforts put into esoteric stuff when basic

nutrient content and agricultural practices are in a desperate crisis.

If a fraction of the resources allocated to GM research,

pharmaceuticals, industrial food processing techniques, etc were

instead used to restore nutritionally sound, ecologically

sustainable, and SAFE agriculture (and seafood harvesting), then

there wouldn't be an especially strong impetus for even pursuing a

lot of health-related research. (this is not POLITICS; this is FOOD.)

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> http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994644

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Hey Roman, haven't seen your name around here lately--thanks for the

link--but I'm surprised you didn't point out the sad inaccuracies in

that tiny article about the GM mice, so I'll do the honors...

significant omega-3 content already in land animals, especially

brains, but also muscle tissue and some organs... I don't think

cows need " fishmeal " in their diets to make all the omega-3's in

their brains and elsewhere... Grass, insects, etc are rich in omega-

3's... People who write articles about these topics should know

these basic facts...

Mike

SE Pennsylvania

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Roman,

Only a few hours ago I read similar story on the Eat Wild website.

Marieta

http://www.eatwild.com/news.html

Ready for the transgenic cow?

(2/04/04) Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital are

contemplating inserting a gene from a worm into our livestock. When

the scientists inserted a particular gene, " Fat-1, " into lab mice,

the animals' tissues contained more omega-3 fatty acids, even when

their diets were low in this heart-healthy fat. According to the

scientists, the " obvious follow-up " would be transferring the gene

to dairy cows, chickens, cattle, and pigs so the animals would

produce meat, eggs, and dairy products rich in Omega-3s.

Regular visitors to this site know that raising livestock on grass,

which is naturally rich in omega-3s, accomplishes the same goal.

What's more, following nature's model offers a multitude of other

health and environmental benefits as well.

( " Transgenic mice: Fat-1 mice convert n-6 to n-3 fatty acids " JING

X. KANG*, JINGDONG WANG*, LIN WU† & ZHAO B. KANG, Nature 427: 504 -

February 5, 2004)

> http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994644

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> Roman

[Guest guest]

(mike, your post came in as an attachment...haven't seen that before on this

list)

>significant omega-3 content already in land animals, especially

>brains, but also muscle tissue and some organs...

especially wild ones according to the data in that cordain pdf i posted a

link to the other day (after you mentioned his lipid analysis). apparently

though, even grass-fed steer don't have nearly the long chain PUFA content

of wild ruminants. so what it seems to come down to is that we've bred and

fed animals to produce a nutrient profile quite different than what they

started out with, and are trying to add amendments to their food and alter

their genes to replace what we've removed through these practices.

things that make you go " hmmmm... "

Suze Fisher

Lapdog Design, Inc.

Web Design & Development

http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3shjg

Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader, Mid Coast Maine

http://www.westonaprice.org

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