Enviropig: A Bioengineered Pig That Excretes Fewer Pollutants

Or, could we feed pigs a more natural diet than grain? I'm assuming pigs are perfectly capable of extracting phosphorus from whatever they would eat in the wild. Correct me if I'm wrong.

this is crazy... to really tackle the environmental problems we should re-engineer human behavior and consciousness to once and for all stop man-made pollution and environmental interference.

@jenthehen

...You posted this from a computer. If you really knew your psychotic "green" trade, you'd know that computers are considered terrible electronic gadgets by consuming power and covering landfills.
/facepalm

@orangesrhyme

...and almost as, if not more, important as having a phone, whether it be for jobs, social life, or staying in the know. Just because he's on a computer doesn't mean his ideas or ideals for stopping environmental damage and climate change are invalid.

@orangesrhyme I was being sarcastic and am not at all a "green" fanatic, though I do advocate recycling. I tried to note how ridiculous this bioengineered pig is and question where the line will be drawn.

Pigs' genes would not have to be mutated if people were more cautious about their diets. The only reason this 'Enviropig' was created is because of our high demands in meat, which too much has been linked to health problems and lacking greens. Overcrowding on these meat farms that respond to our high meat demands is the problem for the excess pollution that people find in natural environments/habitats such as lakes.

An enviropig is not going to solve humanity's problems on environmental concerns from the waste that leaks from these farms as a result of overcrowding. Too much meat is not really the way to go in terms of your health anyway.

1) Sorry hippies, the answer is not to stop eating meat. Humans are built to have some meat in our diets, and we are healthier for it (though overindulgence is another issue entirely).
2) A natural pig diet would fix the pollution problem on the back end by moving it to the front. Sure, feeding more leafy greens to the porkers would solve the problem - at the cost of MANY more acres of feed crop, fertilizer, pestacide, etc.
3) Getting more from less with less waste is the core of being "green." Thus, this pig greens the industry - just not to the standard of an extreamist.
4) We genetically modify things all of the time through unnatural, artificial, manmade selection. Take a look a chicken and a jungle fowl. That is a great deal more genetic modification than this little porker.
5) You digest DNA. What the DNA is does not matter if it is not changing the protiens, fats, etc that you actually use. You don't become a pig from eating pig DNA - and you won't start producing phytase if you eat this pig.

More efficient pigs is an excellent idea.

We want high quality food to be CHEAPER, not more expensive.

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humans are made to eat meat. that's just a physiological fact. grains are bad for us, just like they're bad for hogs.

Oakspar77777 posits that feeding hogs a more natural diet would "cost ... MANY more acres of feed crop, fertilizer, pestacide, etc."

that simply is not true, unless we stick with the Confinement Feedlot Operation model -- which is the problem to begin with.

there is a greener way of growing hogs than altering their DNA: rotational grazing on marginal ag lands. Google "Rotational grazing;" you'll be surprised about how "green" eating meat can be.