Bio-Engineered Rice Uses Human Genes 417
gliph writes "Yahoo news has a piece about a small biogenetics firm that is using genetically engineered rice containing human genes to help fight diarrhea. From the article: 'Ventria's rice produces two human proteins found in mother's milk, saliva and tears, which help people hydrate and lessen the severity and duration of diarrhea attacks, a top killer of children in developing countries.'"
Condoleeza? (Score:5, Funny)
Horray! (Score:2, Funny)
Madness (Score:5, Funny)
Product's name: (Score:5, Funny)
Soylent Green (Score:3, Funny)
GM Rice Bubbles: Snap, Crackle and Mom! (Score:5, Funny)
And if you repeatedly harvest grains with human genes in them, does that make you a cereal killer?
Re:Ethics? (Score:3, Funny)
"What about the ethical aspect of putting human genes in rice? Wouldn't people who eat that rice be eating a part of a human? That's kind of freaky to think about."
I dunno, ask Paris. Opps, sorry, she doesn't swallow.
Re:Ethics? (Score:2, Funny)
Oh damn.. [nyc24.org]
The Silence of Rice (Score:2, Funny)
So, it tastes like chicken?
Re:Condoleeza? (Score:0, Funny)
That's Racist!
Re:Product's name: (Score:5, Funny)
Well, how about the manditory Futurama gag:
Fry: My god! What if the secret ingredient is... people?!!
Leela: No, there's already food like that -- Soylent Rice.
Fry: "How does it taste?"
Leela: "...It varies from person to person."
Re:Product's name: (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Old recipe for stopping diarrhea (Score:3, Funny)
Not if you put curry on it...
Re:Madness (Score:1, Funny)
1) plunder all that Nature has to offer
2) it's not illegal until there is a law against it
3) Amendment to Item 2: it's not illegal if you don't get caught
Are you shittin' me? (Score:3, Funny)
Truth in advertising! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Old recipe for stopping diarrhea (Score:3, Funny)
Until some bio-tech/big-pharma corp patents it. Then it won't be available without some bigg-ass subsidy from the developing coutries non-existent taxbase. Then some lowly rescue/aid type person in some 3rd world country will smuggle some seeds in and plant a field of it, where it will grow and help the local people survive.
The next season, due to wind patterns, a neighboring farm will have had it cross-pollenated with his previous crop and Monsanto-like-corp will swoop down with a huge lawsuit, but realizing this poor farmer has no $$, they will simply burn his crops, thus saving their intellectual/corporate property.
Unfortunately, they'd be too late, because as his crop had grown, it cross-pollenated neighboring crops, leading EvilCorp(TM) to start more lawsuits/crop burnings, leading to the near-complete annihilation of the local populace due to massive starvation from the fact that the crops have been burned and the soil is now worthless via the damage from the fires. The survivors of this devestation will be much needed fodder for Al-Queda and they will feed these people normal rice and teach them the evil that is the corporate world that wants to destoy them in their never ending quest for profit.
The moral?
Bio-engineered rice helps the terrorists!
Either that or I need to switch to decaf.
a plea for help (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Condoleeza? (Score:3, Funny)
Really, this shouldn't be too surprising. Many people in the inner sanctum are androids. Cheney's not though. He's a cyborg. Like Robocop. Makes sense if you think about it. At one point in the past, bad guys must have shot him up. Maybe in nam... oh... wait... Well anyway bad guys shot him up, but he didn't have someone to help him adjust his aim using bottles of baby food. Cyborg with out-of-whack targetting system. Yup.
Likewise, many in the Fox news team are actually Disney anaimatronics. They barely even give a convincing performance of being human. You think Murdoch would pay actual humans? He probably has a sweatshop in Singapore coding up the scripts for each day's broadcast. If you go around behind the news desk, you'll see that each of them has a metal pole up their ass. The fact that they're all sanctimonious pricks is some singapore child's way of getting revenge for the long hours and low wages. It explains everything!
Re:Old recipe for stopping diarrhea (Score:3, Funny)
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