{"id":2326,"date":"2013-09-28T11:35:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T11:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2013-09-28T11:42:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T11:42:51","slug":"atomic-zoo-radiation-bred-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/blog\/atomic-zoo-radiation-bred-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Atomic Zoo: Radiation Bred Animals?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Center is continuing its research on mutation breeding that we began back in 2010. In November we will install a triptych installation at the San Jose Museum of Art which will display the past present and future of radiation breeding.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most of our research has centered on the history of radiation breeding in plants. There is an enormous set of records in the IAEA’s Mutation Variety Database<\/a>. Many of these “useful mutants” are commonplace in human food systems all over the planet.<\/p>\n

In comparison we have found relatively less information about radiation-bred animals. While we have not completed an exhaustive literature review, we have not run into any documented radiation breeding \/ animal husbandry programs in the U.S. or elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\u00a0However, while conducting this radiation breeding research we ran into this curious film documented in the Prelinger archive:<\/p>\n

\"MagicOfTheAtomAtomicZoo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Magic of the Atom: The Atomic Zoo
<\/strong>Produced by Leo H. Handel with the technical assistance of the U.S. Automic Energy Commision and the Atomic Energy Project at UCLA<\/i><\/p>\n