Friday, January 8, 2010

Just Like Our Ancestors Ate

Would we really want to eat lie our ancestors ate? Surprisingly the answer is yes. After all the animals back then were not pumped full of growth hormones nor where they treated cruelly. They were raised on farms and had good diets. Now there’s a movement to genetically engineer farm animals and bring back breeds that have become more or less extinct.
Say what you will about it but it has become an obsession with foodies. it’s part of the locavore revolution , the ones who want to eat what’; growing in their neighborhood. Already scientist s have brought back the fainting goat and which has a lot of meat and some breeds of cattle that came to North America via the Spaniards in the 1500s. The animals are packed with flesh which make them desirables for butchers and the flavor is probably more intense too.
Right now agrarian schools like Tufts University are handling the genetically engineered breeding. This is where endangered breeds are having their ovum frozen along with being artificially inseminated with a more everyday kinds One experiment is Hogg Island sheep, on e of Virginia‘s indigenous breeds and known for their dense, flavorful being mated with amore common breed to produce a hybrid with the best traits of both parents. Dorrance Hill Hamilton, heir to the Campbell Soup fortune, is another driving force behind these goings on. . She also believes that cryopreservation will help in preserving the animals incase there is an outbreak of Mad Cow Disease.
I suppose it is a good idea, to create a better locally farmed meats . I’m sure the idea will spread to the poultry farms as well . Do we want to eat richer meats like our ancestors did?. There are bonuses here, as in less fat and more flavor? There’s nothing like bringing back a rich taste and texture.

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