Bacon could become health food

by Sarah J. Gim, Posted Mar 26th 2006 @ 6:18PM

Could it be true? Could bacon really be...healthy for your heart?

According to an article I just came across, American researchers have cloned pigs that can produce their own omega-3 fatty acids, which would make bacon and pork good for your heart. Omega-3 fatty acids are those compounds found in fish like tuna that reduce the incidence of heart disease.

For now, the research is still in a theoretical stage, as scientists are not sure whether meat from the cloned piglets whose flesh is laden with the omega-3 fatty acids have the same effect as the omega-3 fatty acids from fish. They are also not sure how consumers would react to genetic modification.

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Filed Under: Science, Newspapers, Ingredients
Tags: america, bacon, cloning, genetically modified, GMO, pork

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Reader comments (Page 1 of 3)

3-27-2006 @2:10AM Chewbaca said... there's one thing they didn't say. they're mixing the piggies genes with worms' genes. and that's cool. pig tastes yummy, and the book dune is awesome.

Muad'Dib!

here's a link:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/03/26/national/a105251S92.DTL
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3-27-2006 @6:14AM B.G. saying said... Perceptions rule the universe
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3-27-2006 @6:15AM Hoolie said... Mmmmm, Bacon.
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3-27-2006 @10:31AM Chewbaca said... the one who controls the swine, controls the universe. but seriously, i watched a good eats episode so i believe it to be true, AB said today's swine is 65% leaner than it was 30 years ago. i don't know what else i want to say other than bacon is good. so are pork chops. and baby back ribs.

slashfood, how about a pork theme?

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3-27-2006 @1:17PM Ted said... I'm getting flashbacks to Woody Allen's "Sleeper" here.
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3-27-2006 @2:55PM Jim Pryce said... All food is inherently healthy. There is no unhealthy food except food manipulated by man eg., all processed foods, "fast" and "junk" foods, sugar, hydrogenated oils, additives,"enriched" bleached flour etc.
Bacon is healthy when eaten in the proper amounts and in the proper combination with other food.
Genetically modifying pigs is another business scam to sell a product with false promises and ultimately harmful effects. The more "low fat" or "fat free" you are involved in the fatter you will get. Does anyone remember the latest scam: "low carbs?"

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3-27-2006 @3:00PM maggee simonton said... There isn't any food bacon doesn't make taste good,
whether it's good or bad.
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3-27-2006 @3:11PM Rocka-Billy Virtue said... Im sorry, but engineered pig doesn't sound all too appealing. I mean if I had to survive on it, worst case scenario, I'd eat it. I'd prefer Organic. . .
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3-27-2006 @3:18PM Sam said... I hate this article and i hate this idea! The ideal of birth is holy and we should not find the alternative.
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3-27-2006 @3:26PM Elizabeth Neilson said... My granny lilved to be ninety two...she ate bacon,ham and sausage every day of her life and was never ill....except to survive pneumonia at age ninety!!
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3-27-2006 @3:31PM Bob said... If we can manipulate DNA, change the order of life and how it grows then anything is possible.
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3-27-2006 @3:48PM B L said... Just let a pig feed on it's natural food (grazing on grasses) and the Omega 3 will automatically rise to where it's supposed to be. What lowers the omega 3 is feeding pigs grain to fatten them up before slaughter. Pigs, cows, chickens, etc. were never meant to eat all grains. Farmers feed them that because it sells more animals faster with more fat and better taste. A diet of grains lowers omega 3's in animals...it's been proven. But, of course, the public doesn't know that.
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3-27-2006 @3:52PM Debbie said... I hate to think of what they are putting in our food. No wondering people are getting cancer. I'll be eating home grown veggies before I'd eat that.
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3-27-2006 @3:55PM Stephanie said... Eh...still doesn't sound apetizing. It's still a pig, clone or not, and it faces the same awful fate.
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3-27-2006 @3:59PM SueElla said... eat turky bacon if your wanting a healthy choice.Cloning pigs is stupid,why not spent that money on the hungry children in the united states.
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3-27-2006 @4:01PM red said... What about the sodium nitrates and all of the perservitives in bacon that cause cancer? will those things be removed? if not then bacon will never be healthy!!!
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3-27-2006 @4:07PM jim D'Agostino said... in this modification of the pigs genes,will it make any difference in the diabetic insulen we get from the pig, the insulen makes you gain weight so my doctor tells me.????? yes i'am diabetic and very tired
of fighting weight gain ,you can only do so much
exercise and not eating to exist, give us diabetics
a reason to continue living, take out whatever it is in the insulen that makes you retain weight gain...
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3-27-2006 @4:25PM Lynn Therrien said... This whole concept is perverse! Man over nature ... ha, God will have the last laugh. No thanks!!!!!!!!!!
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