"Heart-smart" bacon? "Healthy" hamburger? Monsanto thinks it's found a way to make red meat better for you, and that's got some overseas environmental activists worried.
The biotech giant has genetically engineered a type of soybean that contains a plant-based version of omega-3, the fatty acid that has been shown to improve cardiovascular health. Omega-3 is typically found in seafood; hence, all those recommendations to eat more fish.
But what if you could ditch the salmon fillet and get your dose of omega-3 from, say, sausage instead?
http://tinyurl.com/2encxvk So the omega-3s show up in the animals fed the GMO soybeans, which means that you get omega-3 long with your bacon and burgers.
Most of the rest of the article is about Monsanto patenting the "derived benefits" feeding the GMO soybeans to animals.
Fuggedabout that. I'm still stuck one the concept that by mixing in omega-3s Monsanto actually believes they can market bacon as "healthy-er". Isn't that like the guy on a 6,000-calorie diet swallowing vitamins and supplements in order to ensure he "eats healthy"?
(Yes, I realize it is BACON we are talking about here. I worship bacon as much as the next APS-er and would never even think of disrespecting bacon. This is not a "bacon is bad" [perish the thought!] diatribe. It's about Monsanto thinking that adding omega-3 to anything it automatically becomes "healthy-er".)
stay safe.
