"eating is an agricultural act" --Wendell Berry, The Pleasures of Eating

People Are Doing Weird Stuff With “Cheese”

As entertaining as this article is, it explores a phenomenon in a new light. Basically, this group of “bio-hackers” are attempting to create a non-vile vegan cheese using DNA codes from cows and humans that have been copied from a data base. To clarify, somewhere along the line, the people who made the database had to find DNA codes for a certain protein in both humans and cows, so a human/cow had to be bothered for some DNA at some point. However, the animal interaction stops there. These bio-hackers in their “community lab” are getting as close as they can to the molecular structure of cheese using their own engineering and are confident that they’ll be able to have something great in the market eventually.

The interesting part of this project is that it’s not quite genetic modification, but it is a whole lot of processing. On the flip side, the people who are creating it make a good case for its environmental friendliness. Since nothing comes from cows, they cut out the GHG emissions from them and the small amount of methane that is released through their process is contained responsibly. So, this vegan cheese is technically more environmentally friendly than regular cheese.

Their whole project will no doubt be a bit much to swallow for environmentalists, vegans, and organic-crazed consumers, but it does show that technology in food can be used responsibly. Although I know nothing about potential health implications of engineering the “cheese” in the way this group is, it does seem like they may have a promising idea.

http://munchies.vice.com/articles/bio-hackers-are-using-human-dna-to-make-vegan-cheese/

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