Comments on: Meet the Genetically Engineered Pig With Earth-Friendly Poop

By: Greg Pruden

Greg Pruden — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:24:04 +0000

After I originally commented I clicked the -Notify me when new comments are added- checkbox and now each time a comment is added I get four emails with the same comment. Is there any means you may take away me from that service? Thanks!

By: show plates

show plates — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:24:13 +0000

this is crazy what we as humans are doing to grow animals and vegs for human food , it is causing us health problems. http://www.show-plates.com/cheap-number-plates/

By: show plates

show plates — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:22:57 +0000

this is crazy what we as humans are doing to grow animals and vegs for human food , it is causing us health problems.

By: stick on tree

stick on tree — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:27:22 +0000

im hungry

By: Hespia Klarerin

Hespia Klarerin — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:07:32 +0000

I think this is a great idea.

Those pigs are raised for human consumption, they are not natural at all to begin with.
Think about how many genetic trait selection those pigs went though to be the right species for human consumption. the wild pig look nothing like agricultural pigs.
Naturally, we are responsible for the environmental damage created by the mass amount of pig poop.
sure, feeding them the pig diet will make them less environmentally effective, but that’s costly. We have great technology on our side called genetic engineering.
Genetic engineering fastens up the agricultural trait-selection process that would take yearsss otherwise. In fact, all the food we eat nowadays are mutants. (for LONG time)
Certainly, this kind of research is only at its beginning, but it has great potential.

By: Liyah Jayy

Liyah Jayy — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:20:02 +0000

This is very interseting

By: Nikki

Nikki — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:37:40 +0000

Eat the enviropig and get Cancer

By: Octaane

Octaane — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:41:45 +0000

I love how 80% of you are self-loving anti-BioG’ers. How expensive do you think it would be to feed a pig “normal, pig-type foods” (i.e. slop)? Moreover, phosphorus is still going to be produced in a copious amount; that’s just the biochemistry of a pig’s metabolic breakdown. I forget who made the comment about “nudging” a the pig’s genome to produce more phytase VIA natural selection, but it doesn’t exactly work that easily. Natural selection works on the previous generation. If there is no need for the pig to produce this for survival, then any mutants that come about (keep in mind beneficial mutation rate is extremely low) are just phased in with the rest of the population, and the trait is most likely lost. Even if you -would- get a slightly higher phytase increase, it would be negligible until it combo’s onto itself. Natural selection only acts if the organism needs it to survive, and sexual selection only acts if the organism becomes somehow more appealing to the opposite sex b/c of its trait.
If you’re not majoring in Genetic Engineering or have some knowledge in the amount of work it requires, then you can’t really appreciate breakthroughs that come about.

By: Goober

Goober — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:25:58 +0000

Yum!

By: Goober

Goober — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:22:29 +0000

Don’t hate me cuz I’m tasty. My farts might be bad, but I smell good in the pan!