Would You Like Drugs in Your Rice? 310
Digitus1337 writes "Wired has the scoop on a new type of rice that was just approved for production by a narrow vote. 'Ventria believes growing drugs that produce proteins like lactoferrin and lysozyme in rice could be a cheaper way to develop drugs than building and maintaining expensive manufacturing plants... Opponents say growing the crops in open fields endangers organic and conventional crops, as well as human health...'" Update: 03/30 23:15 GMT by T : That should probably read "growing rice that produces proteins like lactoferrin and lysozyme."
Pharmin Phool (Score:5, Funny)
Hey dude... (Score:5, Funny)
Well (Score:4, Funny)
hmm.. (Score:5, Funny)
Rice: Its whats for dinner (Score:5, Funny)
Re: "Would You Like Drugs in Your Rice?" (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Pharmin Phool (Score:5, Funny)
Rice is ever evolving... (Score:5, Funny)
Scary...
anti-rice (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Naive? (Score:5, Funny)
Ripley: God damn it, that's not all! 'Cause if one of those things get down here then that will be all! And all this bullshit that you think is so important, you can kiss all that goodbye!
Re:Pharmin Phool (Score:3, Funny)
Don't forget anthrax producing cattle and syphilis producing sheep.
Better then (Score:2, Funny)
I hate it when they cut it with rice.
Re:Hey dude... (Score:3, Funny)
I like the typo in your subject heading. (Score:3, Funny)
-FL
Dude, rice IS a drug (Score:5, Funny)
Low carb diet? Might as well call it detox!
Worse yet, its multi-cultural nature can lead to cultural degradation through Ricism. Asian rice tend to be smaller and stick together, texas long-grain tend to be big and separate, and brown rice is "out there" as far as culinary acceptance goes.
So rice with drugs is harmful. Rice IS already comparable to drugs without the additional drugs.
Re:Pharmin Phool (Score:3, Funny)
And know to lose some karma: (Score:2, Funny)
Asian guy: "Did you get drugs for your rice?"
French guy: "Drugs for my rice?"
Asian guy <points to French guy's head>: "You know, drugs for your rice."
Re:want THC in seaweed (Score:4, Funny)
"What about genetically modifying sweetwater seaweed to contain THC?"
And when the kelp harvesters grab that algin, Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia ice cream will finally become the ultimate food and we'll evolve into a new race of walrus people.
G'goo goo g'joob, baby.
ideal solution (Score:4, Funny)
Excuse me? (Score:5, Funny)
From the article:
"Even food-processing corporations are very upset about this as well, because they know all you need is one shipment of corn flakes that has a contraceptive in it and there's a real problem, obviously," [Paul] Achitoff said.
Yes, well obviously ... errr ... yes, a condom in a shipment of corn flakes would cause a problem... not sure what that has to do with genetically engineered rice, but, well, errr ... yes.
Someone give the man a cigar!
What will be the next abomination? (Score:3, Funny)
I'd like rice without carbs first, please (Score:5, Funny)
Drugs? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Genetic material travels well (Score:2, Funny)
Concerning the environmentalist concerns: environmentalists are much more concerned with genetic information travelling from the GM crop to plants/organisms which are not related to the GM crop. I stated that this is close to impossible. I did not state that cross-pollination is not possible. However, cross-pollination of non-drug-producing GM crops is hardly a concern in some countries because of strict control of land separation of GM crops and non-GM crops.
Re:Why food crops? (Score:1, Funny)
Even as I type this there is an alien invasion force enroute to earth. This is only one step in a complex plan being executed by advanced scouts to prepare the way for the invasion fleet. Our goal is to introduce seeming benign changes to the human food supply under the auspices of benefit for all humankind. Once these changes take hold, the plants will contaminate the rest of human agriculture, the genes will mutate from helpful substances into poisonous protien configurations rendering the majority of the human race's food supply worthless.
Once the mutations have embedded themselves in the agriculture seed/food supply, mass poisonings, then starvation will reign. The human population will be decimated and earth will be rendered defenseless in the face of the alien forces. Those of you who survive will become slaves to your new alien overlords. Monsanto and Ventria are only the beginning.
Re:Pharmin Phool (Score:2, Funny)
SON >DAD ILL MOW THE LAWN !!!!
DAUGHTER> NO DAD I WILL !!!
Son and Daughter get into fight over who gets to mow the lawn.
RISPERPOP: The fun way to ingest antipsychotics. (Score:2, Funny)
Think of the possibilities for the pharmaceutical industry this brings... There are already Actiq fentanyl lollipops for terminally ill children..
I can just imagine it now.
*an allegra-style commercial fades in, showing a schizophrenic running through a field of flowers in the springtime, drooling and talking to invisible people*
ARE THE VOICES IN YOUR HEAD INTERFERING WITH YOUR LIFE? ARE THEY MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO LEAD A NORMAL LIFE OF SITTING ON YOUR ASS ALL DAY AND WATCHING DVDS? WELL FEAR NO MORE, RISPERPOP WILL SET YOU FREE.
*fade to shot of happy family eating bags of Risperpop(tm) while staring off at the TV in front of them*
Yeah I read this book (Score:2, Funny)
What me worry?