Childhood Dreams come true!

It's Monday, but today isn't going to be a rant or anything, mostly a question of right or wrong.

So in biology class, my assignment is to genetically modify a food, on paper. Now when I was a child I thought brown cows gave chocolate milk. And that's what I'm going to modify, A chocolate milk giving cow! So I guess the question is, is it unethical to do so? Would the food inspection agencies allow this, or would PETA protest this as well?

Let's look at the pros and cons here.

Pros: Chocolate Milk, Easy to Produce, Saves Money by less processing.

Cons: Genetically modified (could be cancerous, everything is), do calves enjoy drinking chocolate? And there is no control of how chocolaty or flavourless the milk will be.

There are equal amounts of Pros and Cons that I can get right now, if any more please comment below...

Now, If PETA and the NGO's and the Canadian Government shake their heads at this idea, what other ways is there to get around their ideas and have this product sell on the Grocery Store Shelves?

And what the hell do you feed a cow that produces Chocolate milk? You can't feed it anything that will ruin the taste of chocolate; it would have to be a high sugar high cocoa diet, which only means one thing, a diabetic cow. Cows would die; we would be milk less, and would have to only rely on adding chocolate syrup once again!

There is no research that is happening on this current field of agriculture because it's impossible to do it. Many genes would have to be genetically engineered; genes from the cocoa plant, genes from sugar cane, and genes from the lab.

Here is an excerpt from How stuff works.com

"It's not so farfetched an idea. For example, scientists have taken a gene from a spider and added it to goats. The new gene lets the goats produce spider silk proteins in their milk. Scientists did this hoping that they could filter the spider proteins out of the milk and make super-strong string from it. So why not add chocolate genes to a cow and get chocolate milk? Making a chocolate milk cow is not quite so simple. One reason is that chocolate milk does not contain just one thing. To make chocolate milk, you need to add sugar to the milk as well as cocoa. So scientists would first have to figure out how to make milk sweeter. Without the extra sweetness, the chocolate milk would not taste very good.

There's also the fact that not just one molecule makes chocolate taste chocolaty. Several chemicals work together to create the taste of chocolate. So scientists would have to add genes for all these different chemicals to the cow, and get them produced in the right amounts."