Vegitarians, Gm Foods. with animal DNA? ?

Question

I have just heard that some GM foods have DNA from animals inserted into them. so is this technically aloud to be eaten or is it even vegetarian if it has animal DNA, no matter how small?

Answer 1

says animal right?

then NO!

Answer 2

Well this is a new one on me - how original for once!

Personally, I try to avoid GM foods anyway so it's not really an issue.

Answer 3

It's a difficult/confusing issue.

Luckily, a lot of vegetarians/vegans avoid GM foods, because (as you can seee from this) they do all kinds of crazy stuff to food.

I'd say that yes they were. As the dna would come from one individual animal, and then replicated millions of times.  One strand of this would then be placed into the DNA of each plant, and the plant would reproduce naturally.  So there's no meat in the plant.

It's like with cheese - non-vegetarian cheese is made from rennet (from a cow).  Vegetarian cheese uses a chemical version which was essentially cloned from the animal rennet.  If there was never animal rennet, they wouldn't have been able to make vegetarian rennet.

But the cheese is vegetarian, so it stands to reason that the GM foods would technically be vegetarian.

Though I doubt many vegetarians would choose to eat them...

Answer 4

Well I wouldn't think so...as it would be eating animals. Right?