Cold Weather Hogs Coming (GMOs)

[Drift]

Pigs are currently limited to warm weather latitudes because they lack the gene for converting fat to energy in cold weather. Thats why they get fat and have to be kept warm in snow country. But no longer. I just read an article about using the CRISPR gene splicing technique to implant that missing gene. It's being done. And of course that ability to survive in snow country will be passed down through the generations. So hog farmers should be able to save $ by not heating pig farms. And pigs, being pigs will get loose. The ability of any feral GMO pigs to survive winter weather as well as deer can should allow GMO hogs to expand their range up to the Arctic, and increase the number of wild hunt-able hogs by at least an order of magnitude. Good news for hog hunters; not so much for farmers.

 

[pruhdlr]

Yeah,there is already huntable numbers of hogs in Hungary, Poland,Denmark,Finland,Germany,etc,etc.
People just need to keep them under control when and where they start showing up or they'll have another Texas. ---- SAWMAN

 

[scrmblr1982cj8]

I'm sure some bubba somewhere is already thinking about transporting super pigs up north some where.

 

[RattlesnakeDan]

Arctic Musk Pigs! Polar bears will be happy!

 

[Brian Shaffer]

Sometimes, it helps to provide a source.

CRISPR Bacon: Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs

 

[RattlesnakeDan]

The animals were slaughtered when they were six months old so scientists could analyze their bodies. They seemed perfectly healthy and normal, Zhao says. At least one male even mated, producing healthy offspring, he says.
HAHA....they "seemed" perfectly healthy. lol