Genetically Modified Cows Produce HUMAN Breast Milk!

   I heard about this today on Jack Spirko's The Survival Podcast. I do my best not to touch Mr. Spirko's topics to keep from regurgitation his original information. We like to use our own original content here on Zombie Splatter! Nevertheless, occasionally we will hit the same topics because we both deal with the topic of survival. I listen to The Survival Podcast almost everyday and some information is bound to bleed over; Jack Spirko is just good at what he does and I guess my occasional reference just proves that I am learning from listening to his show. (That has to be a frikin run-on sentence.....oh well) If you are a survivalist and/or prepper and you are not listening to Mr. Spirko's show I urge you to follow the link above and listen to the man for one week. You won;t be dissapointed and I am willing to bet you will keep listening to him.

   Anyways, to the main topic: Cows producing human like breast milk. I am going to copy the article to this post but in order to give Rebecca Boyle, the writer, credit HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ACTUAL ARTICLE. Ok, now read this and tell me you son;t see a problem here:

Genetically Modified Cows Produce Milk Akin To Human Milk

By Rebecca Boyle Posted 04.04.2011 at 1:01 pm

In a potential new step for genetically modified food, babies could someday drink human-like milk derived from herds of genetically modified dairy cows, which scientists say could supplement breast milk and replace baby formula.

Scientists have created 300 cows that produce milk with some of the properties of human breast milk, including lysozyme, which fights bacteria and improves infants’ immune systems in their first few days of life.

Researchers in China introduced genes that express human lysozyme (also called HLZ) and other human proteins into Holstein cattle embryos, and implanted the embryos into surrogate cows. When the GM cows started lactating, their milk contained HLZ and two other proteins.

Using a new purification process, the researchers were apparently able to make the milk taste more human — they increased its fat content and changed the amounts of milk solids, according to the Telegraph.

Human breast milk contains all the nutrients an infant needs, but cow milk is not as readily digested or absorbed. Making cow milk more human could give dairy products a nutritional boost, according to Ning Li, director of the State Key Laboratories for AgroBiotechnology at the China Agricultural University, and lead author of the study.

“Despite the benefits that HLZ provides to breast-fed infants, mothers do not always desire to lactate and sometimes situations prevent lactation; therefore, the development of alternate sources of HLZ would be beneficial to infant health,” the authors write.

The researchers believe human milk from cows could be a better breast milk alternative than baby formula.

Ling and collaborators at the Beijing GenProtein Biotechnology Company took samples from regular cows and GM cows for six months, and found no significant differences in the amount of fat, protein, lactose, and milk solids in the two types of milk. The cows also looked and acted like regular, non-GM cows, they said.

The authors tested the protein expression at pasteurization temperatures, ensuring it would pass muster with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other authorities. They hope genetically modified dairy products could someday be sold in supermarkets.

“The modified bovine milk is a possible substitute for human milk,” they wrote.

The study was published March 16 in the journal PLoS One.

  What the article is saying is that some scientists who probably never think about the totality f the consequences of their projects used a virus to alter the genetic sequence in cows. That made the cows into GMO's, or genetically modified organisms. The genetic modification made the cows produce milk that as very similar to human breast milk. GMO's have already proven to be a terrible idea in our vegetables so I want to know what makes these scientists think that I would want to pump my infant full of milk from a genetically modified cow. It is just not natural. Nature has been doing it right for thousands of years. Why change it now?