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from the swine-version-of-the-universe-championships dept.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals claims that Cambodian farmers are breeding "double-muscled" pigs. "Double-muscled" refers to a mutation in the myostatin gene (MSTN) which normally keeps muscle growth in check. Disruption of MSTN can lead to the abnormal proliferation of muscle cells in an organism:
Mutant pigs bred to grow to an enormous size just to be slaughtered and eaten? No, we aren't talking about the plot of the eye-opening Netflix sensation Okja—rather, this is the very real horror that seems to be unfolding on a Cambodian farm, where genetically altered pigs are being bred to develop heaping knots of muscle mass. Disturbing video footage and images captured on the farm have exploded around the web, sparking discussions about the many ways that animals suffer and are abused when they're treated as nothing more than "food."
[...] When South Korean and Chinese scientists created 32 double-muscled piglets in 2015, according to reports, only one was considered even marginally healthy. But pigs suffer even without this "Frankenscience"—on typical pig farms, their tails are cut off, their sensitive teeth are ground down, and the males are castrated, all without so much as an aspirin. Then, even though we have a wealth of nutritious plant-based foods to eat, these intelligent, playful, sociable animals' throats are slit and their bodies are turned into pork chops or sausages.
Breeders have exploited natural double-muscling, which occurs in Belgian Blue cattle, to create behemoth animals who suffer from a slew of health problems—just to yield slightly larger profits.
[Note: On Google News, only corroborating sources seem to be British tabloids right now]
Previously: "Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simple Gene Modification
Scientists Create Extra-Muscular Beagles
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @08:06AM (1 child)
Whites think they are Christian, and that Christians are the chosen people; Jews, irritatingly, scoff at Christians.
I don't know where you get "Jews actually are superior". Up until about 250 years ago, most Jews were Sephardic (e.g., not much different from the gypsies). Around that time, German Jews, who have quite a bit of German DNA, and a majority of German culture, began their rise, and are now the vast majority of Jews, known as Ashkenazis…Yiddish is a dialect of High German, and both modern Jews and Germans value education, hard work, and stereotypical penny-pinching.
If the Jews actually are superior, it's only because they are more German than Jew. Makes you wonder about the "master" race...
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @08:50AM
The only way Jews could be superior is if they were part German? I take it you do not know that many pure Germans. Take Arnold, and just know that he is above average intelligence. Germans are not too smart, in fact, really dumb. Defeated by the French, for God's sake, more than once? If anything, what makes the Jews of Wiemar Germany superior has to be their Jewish ancestry, since the German part is really, really, dummkopf.