Organic Products Blog July Archive

Cloned Chicken, Anyone?

By Website Introductions at 07/08/08 15:21

Chicken growers would naturally want to produce chickens that are fat and meaty. The problem is that these kinds of chickens less commonly lay eggs than their skinny counterparts. So will you go for the chicken or will you go for the eggs?

You don't have to undergo that dilemma. There's a solution--or so says these scientists. It's cloning of the meaty chicken. Sounds good?

Link: Biotech firms aim to mass-produce cloned chickens Genetic-engineering animals a hot topic for anti-cloning and animal rights groups PAUL ELIAS / AP 14jan02

Life in an Egg

Medicines are bitter. How would anyone sane enough like the presence of numerous drugs waiting to be ingested?

But would you rather have your medicines literally inside your food? This is what some scientists are researching about--infusing special proteins that will help fight cancer into the eggs of cloned chickens. Since you are probably an organic product advocate (as you are here), I ask you, will you eat that egg once it's commercially viable?

Link: Cloned chickens to help fight cancer