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Post by oliverman on Apr 4, 2015 21:36:26 GMT -5
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Post by gakaren on Apr 4, 2015 23:24:08 GMT -5
I didn't read the whole thing tonight, but I will try to in the days ahead. Another sneaky tactic to get their stuff into our homes & our bodies!
Hope you don't mind, I'm stealing your link to post at another place! Thank you!
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Post by claude on Apr 6, 2015 21:20:00 GMT -5
Thank you for your timely post.
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Post by Latitude33 on Apr 6, 2015 22:15:05 GMT -5
Yes thank you, very timely and appreciated. Started playing with home cheese making.
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Post by gardendmpls on Apr 8, 2015 17:22:21 GMT -5
Some people would disagree that this type of GMO should not be used. The gene for making the rennet enzyme is inserted, unmodified, into a bacterium which then churns out the rennet enzyme which is harvested. This is not really different than the production of human insulin by bacteria. That breakthrough helped save a lot of people who were allergic to pig insulin, which was pretty much all that was available before. This technique is used to produce HGH (human growth hormone) to help those with genetic growth problems and also used to produce clotting factors for those with various types of hemophilia. I don't think we should automatically reject something because it was produced by genetic engineering.
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Post by oliverman on Apr 9, 2015 22:39:06 GMT -5
I agree, gardendmpls. I posted here because I was not aware of this previously and thought it interesting to discuss. I think the unilateral rejection of biotechnology is a flaw of the organic movement. Yes, caution is warranted, but we also need to be cautious about what beneficial technology we reject.
BTW, one of the reasons large corporations like Monsanto and Dow are the ones bringing GMO crops on the market is because of the tremendous cost of getting the product approved for use. Just one of the unintended consequences of regulatory requirements.
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Post by brownrexx on Apr 11, 2015 15:17:39 GMT -5
When we visited Costa Rica a few years ago we toured a cheese making factory. It was quite interesting and it was the first time I had ever seen cheese being made. They used animal stomachs for the rennin. It seems kind of gross but with all of the beef that is processed in this country, shouldn't there be a lot of cow stomachs available for use by the cheese makers?
While we were in Costa Rica we had a slice home made cheese with practically every meal. They are not the size of sandwich cheese, they were probably 2" x 4 ". Just about everyone makes their own cheese. I don't know what you would call it but it was a very pale and mild, semi-soft cheese. It was really good.
I never knew that cheese was part of the GMO controversy. Thanks for posting this.
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Post by oliverman on Apr 12, 2015 8:14:04 GMT -5
Rennit has the primary purpose of aiding the digestion of milk. Thus, stomachs of veal calves that have not been weaned are used to obtain natural rennit. Not much beef is processed as veal.
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Post by brownrexx on Apr 12, 2015 9:22:00 GMT -5
OK, that makes more sense. Still kind of gross though.
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Post by claude on Apr 12, 2015 17:30:39 GMT -5
Ok..that does make sense..they hopefully have not been treated by antibiotics? what do vegetarians use for making cheese?
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Post by oliverman on Apr 12, 2015 23:18:15 GMT -5
There are plant produced enzymes that are suitable for cheesemaking, but one isn't able to achieve the same cheese quality with them.
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