Question

Which one of these ways to produce green chicken (chicken with green meat) would be most difficult to get approved by FDA/USDA for human consumption?

A: staining the meat with extract of green algae

B: staining the meat with the food dye

C: engineering the genome of farm chicken to include genes defining the color of plumage in green parrot

D: Finding the green-colored wild chicken varieties (another species), breeding them cross-species with farm chicken and selecting hybrid offsprings with both green color and quick growth traits E: Finding small natural molecule of plant origin that opens up the promoter of “green gene”, which is naturally present in farm chickens’ genomes, but dormant, then feeding concentrated extract of this plant to chicken in order to induce green color (assume that the molecule is totally safe).

Answer 1

The step C when the chicken genome would be genetically modified with the parrot genes to give the meat green coloured would find it most difficult to get FDA or USDA approval.As introduction of gene from a different species into chicken genome would made it a transgenics.The transgenics consumption in the modern world is still not fully accepted as transgenics consumption involves risk factors like antibiotic resistance.So answer C is correct.Whereas the other things like dye utilization,breeding or plant feed does not involves any transgenics so there acceptance rates are higher.