But... your stomach acid dissolves it down. the genes from the meat don't enter your body.
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Rick Monteverde <[email protected]> wrote: > Sure it's propagated from a clean tested starter batch, etc. The problem is > that what you don't know can kill you, and there's so much that is unknown, > and so much that can kill you. > > Do you know how much of the human genome is of recent (and ancient) viral > and bacterial origin? Are you aware of how much modification goes on from > such sources, and would you even consider such a thing as a risk? The > conventional answers would likely be "no", but you might want to take a look > at some of the recent discoveries on horizontal gene transfer and the > activation of dormant sequences. The same factors in less similar meat, or > the GMO's that the food hippies are so terrified of, might not be as risky > or familiar to human tissue as the stuff in 'close' meat. Familiarity breeds > danger. So there's that and the damaged proteins and their coding, prions, > unknown triggers for cancers and other diseases, mutations, etc. I could go > on and on here but for the sake of brevity let's just say that the gods > simply do not approve. Someday maybe when genetics is completely understood > and can be properly engineered, I might take a bite of that sandwich. But > certainly not now. Rent the movie Gattaca from 12 years ago if you haven't > seen it, and think about how incredibly complex life's coding is, and how > little we really know about its processes and interactions. > > And I apologize for previously misspelling soylent, if there is a correct > way to spell a made-up movie word. > > R. > >
