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Safe "Engineered" Fugu, Sans Gene Manipulation 55

zlel writes "Did anyone figure that you could get clean, poison-free Fugu without genetic engineering? According to this story, a group of researchers at Nagasaki University managed to do just that - they bred Fugu by giving them poison-free feed. They tried to get Japan to modify its ban on the sale of Fugu liver - but authorities felt that this was too big a risk - so in the meantime, you gotta trust your chefs." Anyone willing to translate for the Japanese-impaired?
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Safe "Engineered" Fugu, Sans Gene Manipulation

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  • Babelfish (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @10:04AM (#9126110)
    Babelfish isn't much of an improvement. . .

    Feeling at rest, you can eat? Nonpoisonous transformation Isao Nagasaki of liver large

    We would like to try eating. Is, but we fear also the poison. The liver of which bothers the gourmet feeling at rest, perhaps it reaches the point where you can eat. The research group of the Nagasaki university, succeeds in the nonpoisonous conversion of the liver of . When it is individual cultivation method, you say that there is no poison everywhere of the bodies, not only the liver. Putting out "taste of withdrawal" to the dining table, when it probably will assure the town causing, it is the schedule where Saga prefecture eases the law system where sale and offer are prohibited " Special Economic District" June, proposes to the country.

    According to the group of ball male honorary professors same university Noguchi, you say that the globefish eats the living thing which has poison such as asteroid and the shellfish which are in the seabed accumulates that poison to internal. Then, when from at the time of the juvenile fish it tries raising with nonpoisonous feed such as agitation and krill, it isn't there is no poison? Cultivation method of the "nonpoisonous globefish" was searched with such a conception.

    As a result, in the position where 10 meters or more it is far from the seabed enclosing with the net, the method of raising with the seawater which purifies being method and the tank which it cultivates was effective.

    The same group individual management law as this cultivation method was used, such as Takashima of Nagasaki prefecture at the point where at the nationwide 7 place from 00 measured the poison 4833 of total in 03, as for poisonous globefish it was not. As for taste you say that it is not different from former cultivation ones.

    The fact that you have an eye on the nonpoisonous globefish the same prefectural Ureshino as Saga prefecture (is delightfully) town. Putting out to the dining table of the hotel of the Ureshino hot spring, "the liver of the hot spring and the globefish" you aim for the town causing in the signboard.

    Sale of the poisonous region of globefish such as liver is regulated with food hygienic method. In order the liver with ease, feeling at rest, to be able to eat, the application of " Special Economic District" it is in the midst of planning with structural reconstruction Special Economic District of the country. Simply, you say that you attach the tag to the nonpoisonous liver, distinguish.

    If as for flood product department Professor the Arakawa learning/repairing Nagasaki of the same group "the cultivation globefish it is not the case that it is nonpoisonous with whichever. We want stopping, absolutely "to eat with amateur judgement, you say.

    Nonpoisonous conversion technology of the story globefish of the public welfare Ministry of Labor food safe section is the enormous result. But, not be able to distinguish with the eye which was seen as the liver of natural ones, it is difficult to rescind the liver of the cultivation globefish widely at present time.

  • FUGU ME! (Score:4, Funny)

    by quonsar ( 61695 ) on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @10:05AM (#9126122) Homepage
    Homer is going to be thrilled.
  • by mcmonkey ( 96054 ) on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @10:08AM (#9126164) Homepage
    (ObSimpsons)

    Poison...Poison...Tasty fish!
  • by vbrtrmn ( 62760 ) on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @11:08AM (#9126719) Homepage
    Would that lead to:
    Dude man, this is some good fish.
    Dude man, pass the fish.
    Dude man, quit hogging the liver.
  • by rleibman ( 622895 ) on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @01:07PM (#9128607) Homepage
    I can't believe it's not FUGU.
  • by druxton ( 166270 ) on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @01:31PM (#9128983)
    Babelfish isn't much of an improvement. . .

    At least now we know what Yoda does between movie gigs.
  • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @01:35PM (#9129051)
    Umm, are you sure she's saying "fugu"?
  • by !splut ( 512711 ) <sputNO@SPAMalum.rpi.edu> on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @02:05PM (#9129536) Journal
    According to the group of ball male honorary professors same university Noguchi, you say that the globefish eats the living thing which has poison such as asteroid and the shellfish which are in the seabed accumulates that poison to internal.

    Perhaps NASA should consider employing a fleet of fugu to protect earth from rogue asteroids that accumulate that poison to internal.

  • by RobertB-DC ( 622190 ) * on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @02:22PM (#9129802) Homepage Journal
    Perhaps NASA should consider employing a fleet of fugu to protect earth from rogue asteroids that accumulate that poison to internal.

    In A.D. 2004
    Lunch was beginning

    Chef: What happen?
    Waiter: Somebody set up us the fish.
    Waiter: We get order.
    Chef: What!
    Waiter: Main stove turn on.
    Chef: It's You!!
    Critic: How are you gastronomes!!
    Critic: All your fish are belong to us.
    Critic: You are on the way to destruction.
    Chef: What you say!!
    Critic: You have no chance to survive bring my lunch.
    Critic: Ha Ha Ha Ha ....
    Chef: Take off every "fugu."
    Chef: You know what you doing.
    Chef: Move "fugu".
    Chef: For great taste.

    (Just shoot my Karma now, please)
  • by SushiFugu ( 593444 ) on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @10:49PM (#9135456)
    Finally, I get my 15 minutes of fame in a slashdot story! Sort of...

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