Canada Approves "Enviropigs" for Food Supply to Reduce Pig Dung Phosphorus (Are These Mice-Pig Hybrid Creatures Coming to America?)

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South Park called it many years ago. I don't really follow that show, but I first heard about ManBearPig from there. Needless to say that the show's creators were quite accurate, because Canada has just introduced an "enviropig." While ManBearPig roamed the Earth battering people for no reason, the enviropig is spliced together in a genetic laboratory - and now the enviropig is headed for the Canadian food supply.

An enviropig is a genetically modified pig where the pig's genes are merged with the genes from a mouse, so that the pig's dung waste is reduced.

Sources told the agency Environment Canada will announce approval of the strain known as "enviropigs" Saturday.

The Yorkshire pigs were developed by researchers in Ontario at the University of Guelph, who spliced in genes from mice to decrease the amount of phosphorus produced in the pigs' dung, the report said.

Source: UPI