Aside from the occasionalpig - virus newsthat jacks up porc cost in the market store , we do n’t really discover about Sus scrofa in the mainstream media . They ’re no spotlight hogslike pollinators , that ’s for sure . In the past two calendar month or so , though , they ’ve picked up their plowshare of attention in the strangest ways .
GM Pork
Would you like your bacon crispy , wilted or genetically qualify ? The choice may be yours soon . There are two GM Sus scrofa trial run going on right now that you should know about .
In the first , British scientists are work ongenetically modifying meat - breed pigswith the DNA of pigs — warthogs , actually — that are resistant toAfrican swine fever computer virus , which is presently causing bother among pig populations in Europe and has done serious harm in Africa and the Caribbean . These GM pigs are undergo upbringing tribulation now , and if the researchers are well-chosen with the results , they ’ll be apply for commendation from the U.S. FDA this fall .
The second — and , to me , more troubling — hog - risky GM experimentation is out of China and South Korea , where they ’ve “ edited ” copper ’ genes to createdouble - muscled pig , thereby increasing the amount of , well , pork on the pig . dreadful - looking animals are not created through the genetical change method that has been most often used ( tuck the DNA from one creature into a unlike creature ) . Rather , their deoxyribonucleic acid code has been change without introducing anything unexampled . Researchers are hoping that this difference in process will make their meat products hurrying through the regulatory revaluation and commendation process .
When Pigs Dive
Just short of flying , pigs are diving in China . I ’m not a pig , so I do n’t really acknowledge if fuzz would like diving , but deal the pigs we raise on this farm do n’t like stepping off of a raised trailer platform onto the land ( that ’s why they make hydrolic sloven laggard ) , I do n’t reckon they ’re going to dive off of a 39 - foot - high platform into water supply . Still , there ’s a farm in China that has turn diving pig into an agritourism attraction , take their porc is leaner and tasty because of this unusual form of physical exertion .
Has anyone regard the movieWild Hearts Ca n’t Be break away ? Even as a horse - mad teenager , depend on a sawbuck diving off a platform was n’t appealing to me .
Pig Hoarding is Not Cool
Back in the states , we have people who like hog so much that they need to keep them all to themselves . In a basement . That never gets clean .
Let me pause the squealer news here by saying mental illness is no joke . If you have or someone cheeseparing to you has an issue such as hoarding — particularly when the billboard demand other living thing — I so strongly further you to try out aid because it is available and it is important .
One such lawsuit of hoardingthat I bid were prevent come out of Detroit . When Gary Roquemore passed away in June , the two pigs he ’d been keeping — one in his basement and the other in a warehouse filled with cars — were well out of sight . It was about a week before anyone found them , malnourished and living in feet of manure . The pig — now name Sargent Sunshine and Corporal Park — are hold out a young life of sumptuousness at an animal saving farm .
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