How About Some Genetically Engineered Fish Proteins in Your Breyer's Ice Cream? (NEAT & SIMPLE LIVING)

January 03, 2007

How About Some Genetically Engineered Fish Proteins in Your Breyer's Ice Cream?

This is just so wrong on so many levels. What on earth was wrong with Breyers the way it was??? I'm so glad we make all our own ice-cream now.

Did you know this?

"Unilever, a British-Dutch global consumer marketing products giant, is the largest producer of ice cream and frozen novelties in the U.S. Unilever's brands sold in the U.S. include Breyer's ice cream, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Klondike ice cream bars and Popsicle products."

From "How About Some Genetically Engineered Fish Proteins in Your Breyer's Ice Cream? By Paris Reidhead, The Milkweed (Wisconsin Dairy Farmer Magazine), December 2006

From Organic Bytes Newsletter, I bring you the PRODUCT PLUNDER OF THE WEEK! - BREYERS AND GOOD HUMOR

Breyers Ice Cream is beginning to utilize what it calls an "anti-freeze" technology, derived by utilizing genetically modified fish proteins from the blood of the ocean pout (a polar ocean species). The experimental biotech substance, which is supposed to help the ice cream recrystallize if it warms above freezing, has undergone little, if any, safety testing. In fact, the FDA approved the ingredient as "safe" based on human safety protocols conducted on codfish blood proteins, not on blood proteins from the ocean pout. Codfish and the ocean pout do not even belong to the same sub-class, in the "Order of Species," thereby making the studies worthless. The "anti-freeze" ingredient is currently used in Breyer's Light Double-Churned, Extra Creamy Creamy Chocolate ice cream, as well as a Good Humor ice cream novelty bar. The ingredient is referred to as "ice structuring protein" (ISP) on the products' ingredient panels.

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Ugh and double ugh. Thank you for sharing this though - I'll be sure to look out for and *avoid* that. :-P

Posted by: Amy | January 03, 2007 at 05:42 PM

Ariane, That is just downright CREEPY! We like Edy's better than Breyer's, but will this become the American ice cream norm? On the other hand, I HAVE been known to leave food in the car trunk a little longer than I should, and DH hates waste, so this should hide any evidence that I got on the computer before putting away the groceries . . .

Posted by: Anita Hampl | January 03, 2007 at 09:12 PM

Eww. Eww. I'm glad I have lost my love for ice cream.

Posted by: Char | January 06, 2007 at 10:11 PM

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