Soylent Rice?

Cooool.

Eradicating diarrhea is probably on the same level as curing cancer, really. Dying from pooping too much can not be a pleasant way to go.

/poop thread?

SOYLENT GREEN

everyone is thinking it. I win.

I don't see what the big hoo-haa rabble-rabble-rabble is all about. It's genetically engineered with human genes. so?

Granted it's all experimental now and has to be properly tested and yadda-yadda-yadda, but if it works, then great... right?

scape: everyone is thinking it. I win.

3 of the Boobiess made indirect or direct reference to it, buddy.

and I had a picture, too

Soyrent Lice?

/O RRY?

so,does this mean next time i go to mexico i can drink the water?

If I eat the rice am I a cannibal? This could create serious ethical issues for vegetarians and vegans.

RoboJesus: Boobiess

F. 4 P.

Hopefully you knew what I meant.

They're using the rice to grow proteins useful for medicine?

And the rice don't even know it's trapped in the matrix. Whoa.

Ventria, with 16 employees, practices "biopharming," the most contentious segment of agricultural biotechnology because its adherents essentially operate open-air drug factories by splicing human genes into crops to produce proteins that can be turned into medicines.

Biopharming will r0x0r y0r b0x0rz!
Errr, actually, I guess it'll stop that from happening.
Whatever.

I guess this really would make it...

EXTREEEEEME RICE!!!

The company says the chance of its genetically engineered rice ending up in the food supply is remote because the company grinds the rice and extracts the protein before shipping. What's more, rice is "self-pollinating," and it's virtually impossible for genetically engineered rice to accidentally cross breed with conventional crops.

no it will outcross.

cereals share genes like napster. and if the genes confer fitness, it's more like a bittorrent.

It's a cookbook!
IT'S A COOKBOOK!
AHHHHHHHHHH!

It contains human genes that help people hydrate. So what? It's a far cry from cannibalism or the rice being grown in compost made of ground-up corpses or anything. ... Um. Eww. But yes, meh.

People give a shiat more about things that are only made from some human genes than they do actual people!

/i'd eat it

Good to see a reasearcher who's really putting a lot of himself into his work.

Jokes aside, this is really promising but will never see the light of day because of the controversy. It's bullshiat. I'll start my own biogen company and just lie about what we put into our products.

Genetically engineered foods are the best hope for curing hunger, poverty, and disease that the human race has.

Of course the loopy idiots in Chapel Hill, NC and other bastions of 'the world is going to end unless we go back to the dark ages' politics are completely against it.

Jin Verde

If I eat the rice am I a cannibal? This could create serious ethical issues for vegetarians and vegans.

Doesnt a human have 25% of the same genes as a banana? Its something quite high anyway (compared to what you might expect), so its not really anything fundamentally different.

This is probably a stupid move by this company, its just pushing the boundaries that people will accept/understand too fast.

Personally I am more worried about GM efforts centred around things like engineering crops that had exceptional tolerance to certain pesticides, so that they could massively increase the dosage level of the pesticides (which were made by the same company of course) without damaging the crop. Of course this means the run off from the farms into the water system would become far more toxic as a result if these programs are successful.

Cool! No more dangerous mornings after eating General Tsao's chicken!

/gotta walk slowly the day after

So this will stop me from having the sizznits I get from drinking Steel Reserve 211...W00t!

Human genes in food. Nothing can go wrong.

People do not equal poop.

Remember that.

but,people make poop!

2006-05-14 08:45:19 PM xria
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Doesnt a human have 25% of the same genes as a banana? Its something quite high anyway (compared to what you might expect), so its not really anything fundamentally different.


a eukaryote is a eukaryote.

to answer: at the protein level maybe but the upstream and downstream nucleotide similarity is gonna be different as is the way those genes interact with each other.

please never compare me to a monocot again i'm not bananas, i'm just nuts.

Mmmmmmmm...soylent greeeeeen....

actually, we don't really think about it from our pristine 1st-world countries where we have time to worry about things like cancer, but diarrhia is something like the number-one killer of children in the third world. this is waaay bigger than curing cancer.
just an example(thanks, Google).

/the more you know.

OK, check this...everytime I ejaculate into a watermelon, should I plant the seed(s)?

Just asking...

I could really go for some hot Kobe beef...

Spin_Doc: People do not equal poop.

Remember that.

well, some do.

i have to agree.many people equal poop!

diarrhea is the number one killer in the world if im not mistaken. Due to the dehydration malnourishment that follows etc

zyle: I don't see what the big hoo-haa rabble-rabble-rabble is all about. It's genetically engineered with human genes. so?

browser_snake: Genetically engineered foods are the best hope for curing hunger, poverty, and disease that the human race has.

Agreed with you there. It drives me nuts every time I hear someone biatching and whining about the dangers of GM food without knowing what they're talking about, other than some vague idea that All Modified DNA = Evil.

Guess what, kids. Mankind has been farking with plant DNA since before Luther Burbank was cross-breeding peas. We've just developed more direct ways of doing it than splicing shoot A onto root B, or mixing this pollen with that flower.

Personally, I'll put my faith in science over fairy tales any day.

FarkinFarker: /O RRY?

NO, LRY. (Get your ethnic slurs right).

well thats the way i wanna go! just like elvis,on the crapper!

What is the big deal even if it does spread? They said it would make the other rice unfit for human consumption, but isn't the bio-engineered rice specifically for human consumption?

An intellectual carrot, the mind boggles!

/obscure?

One of those threads where you know what the jokes are gonna be, but you don't care, you want them, and they're delivered.

No popplers references? I'm shocked, SHOCKED

Guess what, kids. Mankind has been farking with plant DNA since before Luther Burbank was cross-breeding peas. We've just developed more direct ways of doing it than splicing shoot A onto root B, or mixing this pollen with that flower.

grafting not splicing.

JB-NoHo: NO, LRY. (Get your ethnic slurs right).



/I got it right the first time

I impregnated a grapefruit once.

Hufu surrenders.

If you have ever experienced hyponatremia, dehydration or similar problems then you understand what it might be like to die that way. Not fun at all.

I think we're only going to be seeing more of this human gene splicing. The government just needs to research and regulate so it's safe.

Then again, maybe eating mutant rice will give us superpowers. That or kill us. It's all good.

Submitter made me chuckle. har har. CHUCKLE HAR HAR!

Diarrhea likely kills more children than cancer does, whereas more old people contract cancer. I'm more concerned with the pursuit of saving children than I am of old people. Because, well, they're old.

OMFG! WITCHERY! SATAN IS THE DEVIL IN THE SCIENCE! GET THEE BEHIND ME GENETICIST! WE WON'T HAVE YOU PLAYING GOD NO MATTER HOW MANY LIVES IT SAVES AND IMPROVES! YOU'RE KILLING BABIES!

Sigh.

Genes are just information. There is nothing inherently human about them. Each gene is literally just a segment of 4-character code; the fact that we feed a piece of this code into rice and grow a crop that makes a digestive enzyme or some such does not mean that there is ANY conceivable way in which this rice is somehow human and could start growing noses in the next generation.

/Science education in this nation is pathetic
//People are afraid of what they don't understand, and frankly we don't understand much these days