The FDA plans to greenlight the use of cloned livestock for meat and dairy products by the years' end.
Which means that Dolly could be coming to a grocery store near you.
It would be disingenuous of me to claim “I hate to say I told you so,” when the truth is, it gives me a frisson of schadenfreude to read about the latest genetically modified mess from the blunderful world of bioengineering.
Scientists in Australia took a gene that protects bean plants from beetle damage and transferred it to green pea plants in the hopes of providing them with the same protection. In the process, however, they inadvertently created a pea that appears to trigger allergic reactions.
Interests: Anything with an ING: dancing, biking, listening, talking, writing, reading, watching, eating, drinking, running, thinking, working, dreaming, surrendering, laughing, smiling, acting, traveling, singing, surfing, driving, shopping, thanking, observing, welcoming, connecting, loving, learning, sharing, practicing, asking. I love supermarkets in other places, lyrics to songs, seeking out gluten free food, responding to questions and surveys, finding deals and bargains, doing public relations for anyone/anything I believe in, good conversation, sociological observation, the beach, early mornings, condiments and spices, vitamins and minerals, alternative medicine, nutrition, holistic health, fitness gum, coffee drinking, gun chewing and sitting in the steam room.
Inspiration: Books: Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
Music: Linkin Park and The Cure
People: My mother and all of those that have come before me that have fought their own battles and didn't give up.
Places: Carl Schurz Park, New York, NY
Movies: In Search of a Midnight Kiss, Stealing Beauty, Beautiful Girls, When A Man Loves a Woman, In America, Magdelene Sisters, The Notebook, Run Fat Boy Run
Things: Causes worth fighting for: Lupus and other auto-immune disorders, Organ Donation and impoverished and at-risk youth.