Veggie Pork

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"TOKYO (Reuters) - Meat lovers may one day worry a little bit less about their fat intake thanks to Japanese scientists who say they have produced healthier pork by breeding pigs implanted with spinach genes.

"This is the world's first success in breeding mammals with plant genes," research team leader Akira Iritani, a professor of genetic engineering at Kinki University in western Japan, told Reuters on Thursday.

Iritani said his group had put spinach genes into the fertilised egg of a pig and planted it in the mother.

No health problems had been seen in the genetically engineered pigs, the first of which was born three-and-a-half years ago, he said.

Iritani said their meat would be "more healthy" than normal pork although it was too early to say whether it could be considered as healthy as spinach.

"But the significance of this success is more academic than practical," he added.

-- Anonymous, January 24, 2002

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Iritani??? FFS, who's gonna eat veggie sausages if it does that to you (apart from wor old friend Pruritus, that is).

-- Anonymous, January 24, 2002

Less lard? you've got to be joking....people will start to live longer if they eat less lard and we can't be having that!

-- Anonymous, January 24, 2002

Indeed, it's highly selfish and it's putting an increasing strain on the NHS and the public purse. Compulsory euthanasia for the over 60s! Unless it's me or my friends...

-- Anonymous, January 24, 2002

And what about Popeye ? :-{E}

-- Anonymous, January 24, 2002

..... he can eat dark green, low-fat bacon, like everyone else! ;o{]

-- Anonymous, January 24, 2002


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