The Genome of Your Thanksgiving Supper 84
An anonymous reader writes "Here's a fact you can distract your family with over the Thanksgiving table: many of the major ingredients in Thanksgiving foods have had their genomes sequenced. Biomedical researchers are interested in the turkey genome due to the animal's susceptibility to cancer; botanists are studying the genome of the Chinese chestnut to search for the root of its resistance to chestnut blight; and corn — well, corn's genome is just cool."
No, corn is not cool (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:No, corn is not cool (Score:2, Insightful)
None of which has any impact on the fact that the corn genome is indeed rather cool.
Seriously, go look it up. It's actually awesome.
Re:I think you meant COPYRIGHT, not COOL. (Score:4, Insightful)
First of, Monsanto owns patents, not copyrights. Second of all, that makes IP law and Monsanto uncool, not corn and certainly not the corn genome.
"You sound like my ex-wife." (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:No, corn is not cool (Score:3, Insightful)
1) No they don't.
2) Considering Corn one crop shows your completely ignorant of the industry
3) No, corn syrup is not worse the can sugar. Please stop spreading that lie. You do know that when you say that you're in the same category as people who don't think we went to the moon, right? Yeah, I've seen those commercial, and base on the HFCS conspiracy nuts, it's well deserved.
4) Yes, the natural fallacy is offensive. I wish they hadn't done that. However, the people who are spreading that lie are often the same people who use that same fallacy to show why one thing is 'better' for you. So I understand why they used it.
Re:No, corn is not cool (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:No, corn is not cool (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm familiar with the wikipedia article, and it's links. I have also read many studies, analysis and meta studies. It's become the classic 'You can't prove it's not true, there fore more study is needed' gambit. As used by Homeopaths, Moon landing hoaxers, and ghost hunters.
Th reason we have an obesity issue(not epidemic) is due to the availability of easy calories, and being inundated with ads telling use to eat. Nothing more. Corn Sugar isn't magic. You eat 1000 calories of HFCS* you have 1000 calories. You exercise and burn 1000 calories, you loose a 1000 calories.
In fact, you get LESS calories using Corn Sugar because less is required to achieve the same sweetness.
It would be a more rational argument to say it's healthier for that reason alone. the difference is pretty slight.
Yes, it's easy to use, store, and manufacture the sugar so it gets used a lot. Used to replace sugar.
And I am not arguing it's good for you, only that it's not different the sugar. So like sugar, eat it wisely.
"It's the dose that makes the poison." - Paracelsus