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Beef-flavoured vegetables!
Mmmm, sounds pretty good… How about hamburger-flavoured carrots? Or steak-flavoured cauliflower? Oh, the delicious
possibilities…
Unfortunately, it
would be very, very expensive to create these new tastes.
Beef-flavoured vegetables sound good, but it would take some
serious lab time to figure out how to make them. Interestingly
though, beef-flavoured vegetables would be considerably more
environmentally friendly, as the long term costs of producing
a farm animal dwarfs the cost of growing a vegetable. Raising
a cow instead of a carrot bears an enormous environmental
cost: it requires more land space (pastures), produces more
pollution (methane gas for one), and uses a huge amount of
vegetable matter for feed (which makes the process pretty
inefficient too).
As for making money
from our beef-flavoured vegetables, some social science research
would have to be done to determine if a market existed for
such a product. Sadly, people will often buy anything you
tell them to, so marketed properly, our new Cow Carrots could sweep the nation!
Want
to Learn More?
Check out our series
on Genetically Modified Organisms:
Glossary
term:
March 2009
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