Bacon from cloned pigs is great for you!

[Bill Brasky]

PARIS (AFP) - Researchers say they have created cloned piglets that are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, the oil that is prized as being beneficial to the heart.

Omega-3 is mostly found in fish, but this supply is threatened by overtrawling and clouded by worries about mercury pollution, which accumulates in fish livers.

A team led by Yifan Dai of the University of Pittsburgh's School of Medicine transferred into foetal pig cells a gene called fat-1 that had been identified in a well-studied lab animal, a tiny worm known as Caenorhabditis elegans.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060326/hl_afp/healthbiotechfoodpigs_060326181525

[SABURZFAN]

i'll have to tell TypicalBill that. :up:

[G. Host]

Do then omega-3 fatty acids get destroyed by being BBQed?

How appropriate that this is coming out of Pittsburgh which just won the ultimate PigSkin trophey!

[TigerJ]

Logical next step: someone will consider experimenting to see if the "fat-1 gene" which enables pigs to produce Omega-3 fats could be used to genetically alter humans so that future generations could manufacture their own Omega -3 oil.

What do you think? Should we go there?

Here's another thought. Instead of going to all the trouble of bioengineering pigs to make Omega-3 oils, we could all just eat worms.