The heat from global warming should neutralize the cold of the genetically-modified ice cream.
See? It all works out in the end... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > " The other new method for making supercreamy ice cream was caught > up last month in the global debate over genetically modified foods. > In June, Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch conglomerate, applied to > Britain's Food Standards Agency for permission to use a new > ingredient in its frozen desserts a protein cloned from the blood > of an eel-like Arctic Ocean fish, the ocean pout. > > Instead of extracting the protein from the fish, which Unilever > describes as "not sustainable or economically feasible" in its > application, the company developed a process for making it, by > altering the genetic structure of a strain of baker's yeast so that > it produces the protein during fermentation. > > This ingredient, called an ice-structuring protein, has been > approved by the Food and Drug Administration and is used by Unilever > to make some products in the United States, like some Popsicles and > a new line of Breyers Light Double Churned ice cream bars. > > "Ice-structuring proteins protect the fish, which would otherwise > die in freezing temperatures," said H. Douglas Goff, professor of > dairy sciences at the University of Guelph in Ontario. "They also > make ice cream creamier, by preventing ice crystals from growing." > > In Britain, where Unilever's Cornetto cone is as iconic as the > Fudgsicle is in the United States, the news media have leapt in with > headlines about "vaneela" ice cream. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/26/dining/26cream.html > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
