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{"type":"entry","author":{"type":"card","name":"J K 🇯🇵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿","photo":"https://webmention.io/avatar/social.nipponalba.scot/201caaea1889f39529535e829117ad39acdd7db241be2c888363e72bda171c67.jpg","url":"https://social.nipponalba.scot/users/jk"},"url":"https://social.nipponalba.scot/notice/A1tmmeha3N3cTBGJbk","published":"2020-12-05T18:10:37","wm-received":"2020-12-05T19:22:11Z","wm-id":937543,"wm-source":"https://brid-gy.appspot.com/comment/mastodon/@jk@social.nipponalba.scot/A1tDzZzpMbHPFCDxvE/A1tmmeha3N3cTBGJbk","wm-target":"https://jk.nipponalba.scot/note/5fcb709d/","content":{"html":"So GM yeasts are essentially non-existent in commercial brewing, regardless of the huge amount of research in the area and the wide variety of modified strains that have been created.. honestly, I can't see that changing despite the apparent advantages and I don't see a place for genetically modified yeasts in my future brewery regardless of how sound the science is and the rich the economic benefits.. though if sustainability gains were abundant enough I'd be more open-minded.<br /><br />.. i don't really see a situation where someone picks up a receptacle of a beverage and sees the words Escherichia coli (E. coli) and doesn't immediately return said receptacle to the shelf, sanitise their hands and head directly to the nearest hospital.. and from my perspective it would be ethically questionable not to make public the knowledge that their beer was made with GM yeast and the gene cloning and transformation processes were very likely carried out in E. coli before being transported to the yeast cells (after sanitisation, cleaning etc.)..<br /><br />I don't question the science and understand the reasons for using E. coli but this would have to be transparent.<br /><br />Also, for me a lot of the use cases for modified yeast take away from the craft element of brewing.. though that idealism might change when I'm relying on income from my own brewery paying my bills..","text":"So GM yeasts are essentially non-existent in commercial brewing, regardless of the huge amount of research in the area and the wide variety of modified strains that have been created.. honestly, I can't see that changing despite the apparent advantages and I don't see a place for genetically modified yeasts in my future brewery regardless of how sound the science is and the rich the economic benefits.. though if sustainability gains were abundant enough I'd be more open-minded.\n\n.. i don't really see a situation where someone picks up a receptacle of a beverage and sees the words Escherichia coli (E. coli) and doesn't immediately return said receptacle to the shelf, sanitise their hands and head directly to the nearest hospital.. and from my perspective it would be ethically questionable not to make public the knowledge that their beer was made with GM yeast and the gene cloning and transformation processes were very likely carried out in E. coli before being transported to the yeast cells (after sanitisation, cleaning etc.)..\n\nI don't question the science and understand the reasons for using E. coli but this would have to be transparent.\n\nAlso, for me a lot of the use cases for modified yeast take away from the craft element of brewing.. though that idealism might change when I'm relying on income from my own brewery paying my bills.."},"in-reply-to":"https://jk.nipponalba.scot/note/5fcb709d/","wm-property":"in-reply-to","wm-private":false}