Cloned Animals for Food
Garden tomatoes taste much better because they are different varieties. Store tomatoes are varieties that are bred to have a thick skin that doesn't bruise easily, but these varieties have less taste. There are some other fruit and veg where the common varieties are different.
Garden fruit and vegetables also often taste better because they are fresher. Strawberries are especially nice really fresh.
These factors account for most of the difference in taste, if not all.
Well put....and particularly true in the U.S., since produce is shipped such long distances.Isn't the idea of growing an organic item, then shipping it thousands of miles on a fossil fuel-burning mode of transportation, absurd?
I'd sure could go for one of those good Georgian peaches!
How come vegetables and livestock that come from the West always taste better. The Saskatchewan Steak is delicious. :grin:
Point taken. I am currently conducting a small project with organics at the moment. Seeing if there is a diffence in taste between organic soil grown tomatoes and artificial soil grown tomatoes. They're the same variety and are organic seeds. We'll see what happens.
Using the Scientific Method?
What is artificial soil made of? How does it differ from organic soil?
Artificial soil usually uses vermiculite, perlite, sand, and/or styrofoam Organic soil usually uses sphagnum peat moss and/or composted bark or coir.
sand is neither artificial nor organic
I'm not saying sand is organic/non-organic. That is what non-organic bags of soil usually contain.
hehe, I know. The whole "organic" thing is a pet peeve of mine due to my background in chemistry
Oh yeah, you prefer inorganic foods? That reminds me of the Saturday Night Live commercial parody about Quarry - breakfast cereal made from rocks; "Better tastin', 'cause it's mined."
no, I like organic food... almost everything I eat is organic... cows, carrots... yep all organic. Except salt, that isn't organic.Of course, if you are a fanatic for organic, you can drink benzine and carbontetrachloride. They are Organic.All I know is that there are 2 types of bananas at the store. Both are obviously organic. The thing is that the slightly smaller but more expensive ones have a lable that says "organic".
Mmmm.....delicious organic benzene.
I prefer large, chemically altered bananas.
possibly something large and unaltered?
Dolly lived a shorter life due to the fact that she was cloned from a regular cell in the body. One of the reasons we age is our cells have telomeres, extra genes on each chromosome, and a few base pairs are lost off of each gene every time a cell divides. When an organism reaches the point where it's past these useless genes and the cell loses useful DNA every time it divides the necessary proteins from those lost genes are no longer produced. Cells in reproductive organs replace these telomeres through the enzyme telomerase (as do some types of cancer). If we choose the right cells, then clones won't suffer the early aging effects that Dolly suffered, but telomeres weren't well understood until after Dolly had been cloned.Now on the rest, I think they really need to be careful with genetic alteration. What if a growth protein was actually semi-toxic, so when we ingested large quantities we get sick? The same applies to hormones and all other relative variables in raising livestock. We don't know the long term effects that many of these alterations will have or have had on us.
Ah yes....short telomeres.There are many more problems with the food supply, starting with all the petroleum-based fertilizer used to grow the grain that's fed to us and livestock (who themselves should be eating grass, not cereal grain). Pigs are omnivores like us, though.The average American diet (and, increasingly, the Western European diet) is atrocious.
As far as the food supply is concerned... I think humans have overpopulated the world. In 1951 the world population was something like 2.5 billion. In 2000 the world population was something like 6 billion. I'm not saying we should start killing off people.History has shown that there were 3 main things that kept the human population in controlFamineWarDiseaseWe reolved the famine problems long ago. Modern warfare doesn't have nearly the number of casualties it did. And development of medical science has made many diseases managable.So what will happen once this earth is overcrowded with people? Will we start running out of food? Will we piss each other off and start shooting off weapons of mass destruction? Will we alter nature so much that we spread disease unknowingly?Any thoughts?
Quote:We reolved the famine problems long ago.As far as I know, there are people who are still dying everyday due to famine. There's one currently in North Korea. So, it hasn't been resolved.
I should have said it's no longer a means of population control like it was in the past. But, you're right, it hasn't been resolved completely. Neither has war or disease.
