Guest guest Posted June 10, 2004 Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 www.meatrix.com SAN FRANCISCO -- Food producers are turning to biotech to create designer foods with "improved mouth feel," ingredients with uniform flavour and even flatulence-free beans. Genetic changes to cows and pigs are also on the horizon, according to companies at this week's Biotechnology Industry Organization show here. The goal is "branded meats that consumers will pay more for," said Ed Quattlebaum, president and CEO of MetaMorphix. ". Monsanto will use the company's pig genome-mapping system to find the genome responsible for certain desired characteristics such as marbling, tenderness and flavour. Marker-assisted selection tools may eventually be able to "certify a steak will be Quattlebaum said DNA tracing is being used to ensure the safety of meat, including a DNA/RNA assay machine that can be put on the back of a pickup truck and taken to feedlots. "The closer we can get technology to the farm, the better," said Larry Schook, CEO of Pyxis Genomics, which is working to have totally traceable pork by July. The database will be searchable along the entire market stream, so that shoppers in Japan can scan a bar code on a packaged steak to find its source. For consumers who are concerned about which foods in the food chain are bioengineered, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency and Food and Drug Administration have launched a unified website with a searchable database of genetically engineered food crops. - - - Fight the power! It's San Francisco, so protests were planned by activists and anticipated by police. The conference was met on its third day Tuesday with minor demonstrations from people dressed as grapes and drum majors who spoke out against genetically modified foods. Police say they arrested between 120 and 150 people for blocking traffic. Many of the demonstrators were willing to disperse when security agents asked them to, said a police officer who asked not to be named. The protests were mostly peaceful, he said, although two activists unsuccessfully tried to throw a metal road barrier through the Moscone Centre windows. As BIO attendees entered the conference Tuesday morning, protesters shouted out "Earth killers go home" and "perverting God's DNA" and called them "corporate scum." Although the group organizing the protests, Reclaim the Commons, promised thousands of demonstrators, there appeared to be several hundred at most. The police declined to say exactly how many officers were on hand, but they appeared to outnumber the protesters. No demonstrators were visible Wednesday morning. - - - Custom-made medicine? In 1999, leaders of biotech companies wanting to tailor medicine to everyone's individual genome said the world would see personalized medicine in less than five years. That time has come, and while we have a few (we know that women with the HER-2 gene will respond to Herceptin, for example), custom-made medicines are not commonplace. But biotech researchers at companies like Genomic Health and SurroMed speaking at a panel at BIO on Tuesday told folks they haven't given up. Tiny differences in peoples' genomes can make a drug a lifesaver or a killer, and identifying those differences can be valuable for pharmaceutical companies trying to get their drugs approved. During the panel, Jeannette Whitcomb, vice president of operations at ViroLogic in South San Francisco, said the FDA recommends to pharmaceutical companies: "You gotta call ViroLogic" if you want to get your drug approved, which brought gasps of disbelief from audience members who know the FDA isn't a big fan of anyone insinuating there are tricks to getting drugs approved. - - - DNA isolation for dummies: For those who haven't taken a science class in years, the idea of isolating and manipulating DNA can seem scary or mysterious. So the people at the Biojudiciary Project are trying to educate the public with hands-on demonstrations that make biotechnology more accessible. Audience members obediently smashed strawberries in plastic sandwich baggies, added a shampoo-salt mixture, squished some more, filtered the solution into cups, and held up the containers patiently while Biojudiciary folks added a dose of rubbing alcohol. Clouds of fibrous DNA floated into the alcohol layer at the top of their cups. Carefully stirring the DNA strands with coffee stirrers, the geneticists in training broke into smiles as they lifted what presenter Toby Horn of the Carnegie Institution admitted looked like snot. As simple as that, participants had their own batch of strawberry DNA to take home with them in a vial of alcohol. Kristen Philipkoski and Debra Jones contributed to this report Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 Improving mouth feel? Thats what hydrogenated vegetable oil is "for". Curdled veggie oil. When the oil is hydrogenated, its heated, it curdles and turns rancid..then they add chemicals to sterilize it. All for the sake of creamy peanut butter*. Say no to Jiffy! (hydrogenated vegetable oil is almost in everything, not just P.B. Its in vegi buillion, margerine, ect. So read your labels.)Craig Dearth <cd39 wrote: www.meatrix.com SAN FRANCISCO -- Food producers are turning to biotech to create designer foods with "improved mouth feel," ingredients with uniform flavour and even flatulence-free beans. Genetic changes to cows and pigs are also on the horizon, according to companies at this week's Biotechnology Industry Organization show here. The goal is "branded meats that consumers will pay more for," said Ed Quattlebaum, president and CEO of MetaMorphix. ". Monsanto will use the company's pig genome-mapping system to find the genome responsible for certain desired characteristics such as marbling, tenderness and flavour. Marker-assisted selection tools may eventually be able to "certify a steak will be Quattlebaum said DNA tracing is being used to ensure the safety of meat, including a DNA/RNA assay machine that can be put on the back of a pickup truck and taken to feedlots. "The closer we can get technology to the farm, the better," said Larry Schook, CEO of Pyxis Genomics, which is working to have totally traceable pork by July. The database will be searchable along the entire market stream, so that shoppers in Japan can scan a bar code on a packaged steak to find its source. For consumers who are concerned about which foods in the food chain are bioengineered, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency and Food and Drug Administration have launched a unified website with a searchable database of genetically engineered food crops. - - - Fight the power! It's San Francisco, so protests were planned by activists and anticipated by police. The conference was met on its third day Tuesday with minor demonstrations from people dressed as grapes and drum majors who spoke out against genetically modified foods. Police say they arrested between 120 and 150 people for blocking traffic. Many of the demonstrators were willing to disperse when security agents asked them to, said a police officer who asked not to be named. The protests were mostly peaceful, he said, although two activists unsuccessfully tried to throw a metal road barrier through the Moscone Centre windows. As BIO attendees entered the conference Tuesday morning, protesters shouted out "Earth killers go home" and "perverting God's DNA" and called them "corporate scum." Although the group organizing the protests, Reclaim the Commons, promised thousands of demonstrators, there appeared to be several hundred at most. The police declined to say exactly how many officers were on hand, but they appeared to outnumber the protesters. No demonstrators were visible Wednesday morning. - - - Custom-made medicine? In 1999, leaders of biotech companies wanting to tailor medicine to everyone's individual genome said the world would see personalized medicine in less than five years. That time has come, and while we have a few (we know that women with the HER-2 gene will respond to Herceptin, for example), custom-made medicines are not commonplace. But biotech researchers at companies like Genomic Health and SurroMed speaking at a panel at BIO on Tuesday told folks they haven't given up. Tiny differences in peoples' genomes can make a drug a lifesaver or a killer, and identifying those differences can be valuable for pharmaceutical companies trying to get their drugs approved. During the panel, Jeannette Whitcomb, vice president of operations at ViroLogic in South San Francisco, said the FDA recommends to pharmaceutical companies: "You gotta call ViroLogic" if you want to get your drug approved, which brought gasps of disbelief from audience members who know the FDA isn't a big fan of anyone insinuating there are tricks to getting drugs approved. - - - DNA isolation for dummies: For those who haven't taken a science class in years, the idea of isolating and manipulating DNA can seem scary or mysterious. So the people at the Biojudiciary Project are trying to educate the public with hands-on demonstrations that make biotechnology more accessible. Audience members obediently smashed strawberries in plastic sandwich baggies, added a shampoo-salt mixture, squished some more, filtered the solution into cups, and held up the containers patiently while Biojudiciary folks added a dose of rubbing alcohol. Clouds of fibrous DNA floated into the alcohol layer at the top of their cups. Carefully stirring the DNA strands with coffee stirrers, the geneticists in training broke into smiles as they lifted what presenter Toby Horn of the Carnegie Institution admitted looked like snot. As simple as that, participants had their own batch of strawberry DNA to take home with them in a vial of alcohol. Kristen Philipkoski and Debra Jones contributed to this reportTo send an email to - e Make Art, Not War Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 is there some part of the process that makes it not vegan?~~a very curious brii >Hel <notha_skadi > > >Re: now this is scary >Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:05:06 -0700 (PDT) > >Improving mouth feel? Thats what hydrogenated vegetable oil is "for". Curdled veggie oil. When the oil is hydrogenated, its heated, it curdles and turns rancid..then they add chemicals to sterilize it. All for the sake of creamy peanut butter*. Say no to Jiffy! >(hydrogenated vegetable oil is almost in everything, not just P.B. Its in vegi buillion, margerine, ect. So read your labels.) > >Craig Dearth <cd39 wrote: >BODY { MARGIN-TOP: 25px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 15px; COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica} >www.meatrix.com > > > >SAN FRANCISCO -- Food producers are turning to biotech to create designer foods with "improved mouth feel," ingredients with uniform flavour and even flatulence-free beans. > >Genetic changes to cows and pigs are also on the horizon, according to companies at this week's Biotechnology Industry Organization show here. The goal is "branded meats that consumers will pay more for," said Ed Quattlebaum, president and CEO of MetaMorphix. > >". Monsanto will use the company's pig genome-mapping system to find the genome responsible for certain desired characteristics such as marbling, tenderness and flavour. Marker-assisted selection tools may eventually be able to "certify a steak will be > >Quattlebaum said > >DNA tracing is being used to ensure the safety of meat, including a DNA/RNA assay machine that can be put on the back of a pickup truck and taken to feedlots. "The closer we can get technology to the farm, the better," said Larry Schook, CEO of Pyxis Genomics, which is working to have totally traceable pork by July. The database will be searchable along the entire market stream, so that shoppers in Japan can scan a bar code on a packaged steak to find its source. > >For consumers who are concerned about which foods in the food chain are bioengineered, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency and Food and Drug Administration have launched a unified website with a searchable database of genetically engineered food crops. > >- - - > >Fight the power! It's San Francisco, so protests were planned by activists and anticipated by police. The conference was met on its third day Tuesday with minor demonstrations from people dressed as grapes and drum majors who spoke out against genetically modified foods. > >Police say they arrested between 120 and 150 people for blocking traffic. Many of the demonstrators were willing to disperse when security agents asked them to, said a police officer who asked not to be named. The protests were mostly peaceful, he said, although two activists unsuccessfully tried to throw a metal road barrier through the Moscone Centre windows. > >As BIO attendees entered the conference Tuesday morning, protesters shouted out "Earth killers go home" and "perverting God's DNA" and called them "corporate scum." Although the group organizing the protests, Reclaim the Commons, promised thousands of demonstrators, there appeared to be several hundred at most. > >The police declined to say exactly how many officers were on hand, but they appeared to outnumber the protesters. No demonstrators were visible Wednesday morning. > >- - - > >Custom-made medicine? In 1999, leaders of biotech companies wanting to tailor medicine to everyone's individual genome said the world would see personalized medicine in less than five years. > >That time has come, and while we have a few (we know that women with the HER-2 gene will respond to Herceptin, for example), custom-made medicines are not commonplace. But biotech researchers at companies like Genomic Health and SurroMed speaking at a panel at BIO on Tuesday told folks they haven't given up. Tiny differences in peoples' genomes can make a drug a lifesaver or a killer, and identifying those differences can be valuable for pharmaceutical companies trying to get their drugs approved. > >During the panel, Jeannette Whitcomb, vice president of operations at ViroLogic in South San Francisco, said the FDA recommends to pharmaceutical companies: "You gotta call ViroLogic" if you want to get your drug approved, which brought gasps of disbelief from audience members who know the FDA isn't a big fan of anyone insinuating there are tricks to getting drugs approved. > >- - - > >DNA isolation for dummies: For those who haven't taken a science class in years, the idea of isolating and manipulating DNA can seem scary or mysterious. So the people at the Biojudiciary Project are trying to educate the public with hands-on demonstrations that make biotechnology more accessible. > >Audience members obediently smashed strawberries in plastic sandwich baggies, added a shampoo-salt mixture, squished some more, filtered the solution into cups, and held up the containers patiently while Biojudiciary folks added a dose of rubbing alcohol. Clouds of fibrous DNA floated into the alcohol layer at the top of their cups. > >Carefully stirring the DNA strands with coffee stirrers, the geneticists in training broke into smiles as they lifted what presenter Toby Horn of the Carnegie Institution admitted looked like snot. As simple as that, participants had their own batch of strawberry DNA to take home with them in a vial of alcohol. > >Kristen Philipkoski and Debra Jones contributed to this report > > >To send an email to - > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 has nuthin to do with vegan has to do with health... is there some part of the process that makes it not vegan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 ohh, alright; thank you. i take a few more risks with my own well-being... just making sure!~brii >EBbrewpunx > > >Re: now this is scary >Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:43:59 EDT > >has nuthin to do with vegan >has to do with health... > > > > is there some part of the process that makes it not vegan? > > > > > > > > MSN 9 Dial-up Internet Access fights spam and pop-ups – now 3 months FREE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 i know she just asked if it had to do with veganism er the like... well lets see... even though we are doing more than most to slow the madness down the research can still affect us just passing on the info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 11, 2004 Report Share Posted June 11, 2004 well lets see... even though we are doing more than most to slow the madness down the research can still affect us just passing on the info EBbrewpunx [EBbrewpunx]Friday, June 11, 2004 9:44 PM Subject: Re: now this is scaryhas nuthin to do with veganhas to do with health... is there some part of the process that makes it not vegan?To send an email to - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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