{"id":48559,"date":"2015-07-29T14:11:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T18:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=48559"},"modified":"2015-07-29T14:11:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T18:11:50","slug":"genetically-modified-jellyfish-lamb-accidentally-hits-french-dinner-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2015\/07\/genetically-modified-jellyfish-lamb-accidentally-hits-french-dinner-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetically modified &#8216;jellyfish lamb&#8217; accidentally hits French dinner plates"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/france\/11693029\/Genetically-modified-jellyfish-lamb-accidentally-hits-French-dinner-plates.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/sheep-lamb_2170927b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A judicial inquiry has been launched to find out how Rubis, a female lamb belonging to the French national institute for agricultural research (Inra) ended up on dinner plates.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Destined for animal research only, the lamb was sold to an abattoir in November 2014 along with unmodified sheep and then onto an unsuspecting customer, who has not been identified to date.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The sale and consumption of any genetically modified food products for humans is illegal in France.Rubis was the fruit of Inra\u2019s so-called \u201cgreen sheep\u201d programme launched in 2009 to produce lambs genetically modified to contain a green fluorescent protein originating from a jellyfish.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The proteins make the skin transparent and give off a greenish glow when exposed to certain ultraviolet light. Typically, they are used to monitor the activity of altered genes, and in this case to monitor transplants for heart disease.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The lamb belonged to the Inra\u2019s animal research unit, UECA, which sells its unmodified animals to a local abattoir but has strictly no right to sell GM animals.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An internal investigation into the huge slip-up suggests foul play on the part of an employee acting out of revenge after a dispute with a colleague.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read Full Article: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/france\/11693029\/Genetically-modified-jellyfish-lamb-accidentally-hits-French-dinner-plates.html\" target=\"_blank\">Genetically modified &#8216;jellyfish lamb&#8217; accidentally hits French dinner plates &#8211; Telegraph<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judicial inquiry has been launched to find out how Rubis, a female lamb belonging to the French national institute for agricultural research (Inra) ended up on dinner plates. Destined for animal research only, the lamb was sold to an abattoir in November 2014 along with unmodified sheep and then onto an unsuspecting customer, who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[257,22,18],"tags":[1901,1259,1900],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48559"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48562,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48559\/revisions\/48562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}