Discovery Magazine

[Lisa]

Here are a few interesting facts in Discovery Magazine, March issue

The Food and Drug Administration declares meat and milk from Cloned Animals SafeTo Eat and says they can be sold with no special labeling.

Japanese chemists create VANILLIN FROM COW DUNG. Vanillin is the main component of vanila-bean extract in artifical flavorings.

Get your sunshine: Harvard epidemiologists find that Caucasians with a high blood levels of vitamin D have a 62 PERCENT LOWER RISK OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS.

Who would have thought? COW DUNG, ghesh.

[larry mac]

Japanese chemists create VANILLIN FROM COW DUNG.

Hey mg,

The good 'ol artificial kind don't sound so good either.

" .... The demand for vanilla flavoring has long exceeded the supply of vanilla beans. As of 2001, the annual demand for vanillin was 12,000 tons, but only 1800 tons of natural vanillin were produced. The remainder was produced by chemical synthesis. Vanillin was first synthesized from eugenol (found in oil of clove) in 1874

[Lisa]

Uggg....the things that we eat and don't even know it.

Celiac brings on a new awareness, doesn't?

I don't want to eat a cloned cow or whatever, either.

[Viola 1]

Uggg....the things that we eat and don't even know it.

Celiac brings on a new awareness, doesn't?

I don't want to eat a cloned cow or whatever, either.

Yuck ... maybe it's a good thing that we don't know some things, or we will soon all starve. That really is gross!

[darlindeb25]

Exactly--sometimes that which we do not know, can't hurt us!