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Old Sat, Mar-24-18, 23:47
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Default I bought genetically engineered sour cream accidently

I checked the carbs and the ingredients: milk and coconut oil, preservatives. I missed the Partially Genetically Modified at the store.

I searched the tub wondering why the consistency and flavor is a little off. I think they added the coconut oil to try to cover the strange taste.

Would you eat this? I won't!

This article is from 2012, expected market date as early as 5 years.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sc...thier-milk.html

In two separate breakthroughs, researchers have revealed that they have successfully created a calf whose milk could be drunk by people suffering from lactose intolerance and a second animal whose milk contains high levels of "healthy" fat found in fish.

The cows are part of a growing effort by scientists to make food and drink products from livestock healthier by genetically altering the animals.

In the latest research, geneticists were able to introduce a gene which causes lactose, the main sugar in dairy products, to break down into other types of sugar that are more easily digestible by humans.

People who are lactose intolerant lack the ability to digest milk properly and can cause stomach problems in sufferers.

The calf, which has been named Lucks by researchers, was born two months ago and is expected to start producing low-lactose milk once it gives birth to offspring itself at around 25 months old.

The scientists behind the development hope to create herds of low-lactose cows that would eventually produce new types of dairy products to be sold in shops in between five to ten years time.

Dr Zhou Huanmin, director of the Key State Laboratory for Bio-manufacturing at the Inner Mongolia University where the cow was created, said: "Ordinary milk contains lactose, while milk produced by our modified cow will have relatively low content of lactose, or even have no lactose.

"Most people suffer the lactose intolerance in varying degree. We are attempting to breed a dairy cow that produce low lactose milk for supplying the market. We hope to commercialise it in the future."

To create the low lactose cow, the scientists injected genes from bacteria-like organisms known as archaea into cells from cow embryos using the technique used to clone Dolly the Sheep.

They created 14 embryos and implanted them into the wombs of surrogate cows. Five calves were born in April this year and three were found to carry the genes needed to create low-lactose milk, although two of them died within 24 hours of birth.

The scientists said Lucks, a modified Holstein dairy cow, was "healthy and strong". They will conduct tests on her milk once she starts lactating to assess exactly how much lactose the milk contains.
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Old Sun, Mar-25-18, 06:27
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The weirdness likely comes down to trying to make "sour cream" from milk and coconut instead of from cream.
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Old Sun, Mar-25-18, 12:55
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I'm mostly freaked when they said they put DNA from archaea. Mostly I'll tolerate warm weather better.
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Old Sun, Mar-25-18, 20:07
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Watch out for the "fat-free butter" too
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Watch out for the "fat-free butter" too


Isn't that an example of an oxymoron?
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Old Fri, Apr-06-18, 21:32
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My $0.02 with logic, reason, deduction and past knowledge.

It is cost prohibit to have Partially Genetically Modified cow milk and coconut oil. The only thing left that did not mentioned and is also cost effective is Partially Genetically Modified Soybean oil(oil produced from Partially Genetically Modified soybean.)

Since most soybean in US are Genetically Modified, it makes sense.

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Originally Posted by nawchem
I checked the carbs and the ingredients: milk and coconut oil, preservatives. I missed the Partially Genetically Modified at the store.

I searched the tub wondering why the consistency and flavor is a little off. I think they added the coconut oil to try to cover the strange taste.

Would you eat this? I won't!

This article is from 2012, expected market date as early as 5 years.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sc...thier-milk.html

In two separate breakthroughs, researchers have revealed that they have successfully created a calf whose milk could be drunk by people suffering from lactose intolerance and a second animal whose milk contains high levels of "healthy" fat found in fish.

The cows are part of a growing effort by scientists to make food and drink products from livestock healthier by genetically altering the animals.

In the latest research, geneticists were able to introduce a gene which causes lactose, the main sugar in dairy products, to break down into other types of sugar that are more easily digestible by humans.

People who are lactose intolerant lack the ability to digest milk properly and can cause stomach problems in sufferers.

The calf, which has been named Lucks by researchers, was born two months ago and is expected to start producing low-lactose milk once it gives birth to offspring itself at around 25 months old.

The scientists behind the development hope to create herds of low-lactose cows that would eventually produce new types of dairy products to be sold in shops in between five to ten years time.

Dr Zhou Huanmin, director of the Key State Laboratory for Bio-manufacturing at the Inner Mongolia University where the cow was created, said: "Ordinary milk contains lactose, while milk produced by our modified cow will have relatively low content of lactose, or even have no lactose.

"Most people suffer the lactose intolerance in varying degree. We are attempting to breed a dairy cow that produce low lactose milk for supplying the market. We hope to commercialise it in the future."

To create the low lactose cow, the scientists injected genes from bacteria-like organisms known as archaea into cells from cow embryos using the technique used to clone Dolly the Sheep.

They created 14 embryos and implanted them into the wombs of surrogate cows. Five calves were born in April this year and three were found to carry the genes needed to create low-lactose milk, although two of them died within 24 hours of birth.

The scientists said Lucks, a modified Holstein dairy cow, was "healthy and strong". They will conduct tests on her milk once she starts lactating to assess exactly how much lactose the milk contains.
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Old Fri, Apr-06-18, 22:51
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This must be the new a2 milk now marketed.

Geez.

The best sources of a2 milk has been goats and sheep, and perhaps jerseys and gurneseys. NOT HOLSTEINS.

Need to research this further--a2 milk is better for us as this is like human milk.

Disappointed this is GMO rather than straight up breeding; very distressing.

Now I want to pour it out.. hmm make into yogurt and feed the dogs.
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Old Fri, Apr-06-18, 22:53
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Unlike other dairy farmers, our farmers exclusively select cows that naturally produce milk rich in the A2 type of beta-casein. This is done by using a simple and non-invasive DNA test we have developed, which analyses a sample hair from the tail of each dairy cow.--australian source

Ok got it. a1 and a2 are proteins.

lactose is a sugar.

just make good milk into yogurt!!

sure hope those GMO animals dont get into the general population .....
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I'm against GMO because of what it leads to, not necessarily fear of giant tarantulas roaming the hills (to reference a favorite movie.)

Like GMO wheat, the dwarf kind with more protein and gluten, is credited with saving many people from starvation, and okay, that is a good thing, even if it comes in a bad package.

But apparently US farmers, who are able to be as heedless of the environment as a crazed billionaire will allow, use wheat seeds that have been genetically modified to be resistant to Round Up so they can just spray the fields to eliminate weeds. And they don't care how much they spray or when, so this winds up in the breads and pasta of the nation.

And we all know what Round Up is. A defoliant during the Vietnam War: Agent Orange.
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