Modern Meat Chickens & Turkeys are Genetically Altered?

[Peeper7]

selective breeding....

 

[al6517]

Here you go, read this fully and see what your ideas are.

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geu9e3f...ttp://www.upc-online.org/genetic/102803ge.htm

AL

 

[al6517]

Anybody have any comments ???.

AL

 

[jaku]

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[cassie]

Just for the record, there has been a fair amount of "genetic alteration" that has occurred naturally in just about all species over the millenia. Viruses are the culprit. You can find references to this in obscure and difficult to understand scientific papers on DNA should you be so inclined.

 

[al6517]

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Can't get Yahoo from my work computer- any chance someone could cut/paste?

It's really a long read several pages.

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[jaku]

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Can't get Yahoo from my work computer- any chance someone could cut/paste?

It's really a long read several pages.

AL

I read part of it- sounds like more for research, and THAT'S definitely going on with plenty of animals. My point is that the birds we're eating haven't been genetically altered. Even if they had, I don't see what harm that could cause anyway. It's not like they're using radiation on them to make super-mutant chickens. Again, they've been doing all of the above on fruits and vegetables for decades. I read somewhere that most, if not all supermarket veggies are clones.

This is similar to the way it's widely accepted that chickens are given "hormones" to make them meatier, that are making young girls develop earlier, and causing breast cancer rates to increase.

 

[al6517]

I don't see the problem with it either, if there is a better way to do things and grow veggies or meat animals SAFELY then it is benifical. after all we are not China we have rules!!!! and 99.99% of us in the US follow them. As far as such extreme groups that oppose it regardless, well you are just always going to have those folks hanging around looking for stuff to stir up, thats a givin.

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[seramas]

I am very familiar with this article. It had a lot of 1/2 truths injected into it by the writers wanting to push there own addenda’s. If you go and read (will take you about 5 months) the full documents referred to by them you will find no cloned or genetically modified animals in our food chain yet.

Many years of research needs to be completed before our government will allow it to go farther than the research stage.

Most of the research is aimed at finding what gene does what, some research studies are seeking specific gene sequences for fat cells and egg laying in the meat bird. This research started back after WWII and as of yet not made it in the meat production operations due to Federal laws.

Look up the price tag for Dolly.

Look back on all the hoopla about microwaves-we were going to grow a third eye…just fear mongering for the most part.

In one hundred or so years the only farm the common man will have due to population density will be "petri dish farms".

Don't fear the unknown, just study it and learn.

 

[Buster52]

I'm one of those folks who does not believe in raising Cornish X or BB turkeys for a variety of reasons, but genetic modification is not one of them.

I think folks of like mind get confused, and think that the fact that they can't breed naturally (nor can the parent stock) and must be bread using AI that they are GM. Which is reason enough for me not to want to raise them or even eat them. I just raised and am about to butcher the last of my BB Whites.

Never again.