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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Activism / Genetically Modified Cows Produce “Human” Milk

Genetically Modified Cows Produce “Human” Milk

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

 

China Daily recently reported that a herd of 200 cows have been genetically modified to produce human milk.

It seems this news development puts a sock in the mouths of the folks who insist that cow milk is for baby cows only and that humans shouldn’t be drinking it!

Seriously though, this shocking development actually did occur at an exhibition of technological advancements for China’s 11th 5 year plan (2006-2010).  Photos of the cows were showcased at the exhibition along with some head scratching comments by head engineer Li Ning, Director of the State Key Laboratories for AgroBiotechnolgy at China Agricultural University:

“In ancient China, only the emperor and the empress could drink human milk throughout their lives, which was believed to be the height of opulence.  Why not make that kind of milk more available for ordinary people?”

Li went on to add that this new technology is important as it makes affordable to the ordinary consumer the healthy proteins found in human breastmilk.

Li also claimed that products containing human milk produced by cows would be on supermarket shelves within 10 years and that the GM milk would be as safe to drink as milk from ordinary cows.

After reading this story, one can’t help but wonder if people who drink this milk grow bolts on their neck or if children who consume it say “Moo” instead of “Mama” as a first word?

 

Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist.com

 

Source:  China Daily

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: Amazon #1 bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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  1. Linda

    Mar 26, 2011 at 4:52 pm

    I see this as another example of man playing G-d. This will end well!

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  2. Misty

    Mar 26, 2011 at 4:07 pm

    My first thought is ‘That can’t be good’. After reading it, though, now I’m thinking ‘It can’t be human milk as its not from humans’ Soooooooo…..I don’t know what they’re thinking. Maybe its supposed to TASTE like human milk… because obviously, its still from a cow! So, its still cows milk. Just really jacked up cows milk……

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  3. Angela

    Mar 26, 2011 at 2:17 pm

    That’s so creepy.

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  4. Bettina

    Mar 26, 2011 at 2:16 pm

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Moooooooooooo

    Reply
  5. Beth

    Mar 26, 2011 at 1:31 pm

    Holy smokes. I’d love to know what GMO expert Jeffrey Smith has to say about this.

    Reply
  6. Adrienne

    Mar 26, 2011 at 1:14 pm

    OK – this is really going too far. But then, in what arena of life are things not “going too far” these days.

    Sarah, I will say, however, that you might be interested to know that the bottle of milk in your photo is from Japan. You may already have noticed that since it is bottled by Kirin, a Japanese company that is somewhat well known even in the US for it’s beer. I lived in Japan for a year and studied Japanese here, so I can also recognize the writing :-). Japan’s written language is a mixture of 3 “alphabets”, one of them being Chinese so they look quite similar.

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    • Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist

      Mar 26, 2011 at 3:48 pm

      Hi Adrienne, yes, the picture is of a coffee latte product from Japan .. I just liked the picture of the juggling cow with a pacifier in its mouth .. I thought it fit the story quite well .. that is the mixing of human/cow genome sick as it may be! 🙂

  7. Kate @ Modern Alternative Mama

    Mar 26, 2011 at 11:58 am

    That is insane. What are they thinking? There is no way any animal can ever produce “human” milk. We don’t even really know everything that’s IN human milk…so how can they claim to have genetically engineered an animal that produces it?? It doesn’t even make any sense.

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    • Bethany @ Uncle Dutch Farms

      Mar 27, 2011 at 1:13 am

      Totally agree – makes no sense that it would duplicate breastmilk if we can’t even identify everything that’s in the real stuff!

  8. Heather

    Mar 26, 2011 at 11:49 am

    That milk travesty is as much “human” milk as commercial baby formula. At what point are people going to stop trying out do nature and figure out we all win if we work with it instead?

    Reply
  9. Jill @ The Prairie Homestead

    Mar 26, 2011 at 11:39 am

    So incredibly disturbing. For the life of me, I can’t understand why people just can’t leave things alone. If God would have wanted cows to produce human milk, He would have made them that way.

    Reply
  10. hobby baker

    Mar 25, 2011 at 9:10 pm

    That is entirely too disturbing. GM foods are just bad news all around, but that is just… ew.

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