114 • Impacts of Applied Genetics— Micro-Organisms, Plants, and Animals 
You don’t worry about processing bacon 
without nitrites, you engineer a synthetic bacon 
with designed-in shelf life. 
You don’t try to educate people to eat a "bal- 
anced diet;’’ you create a "whole” food with the 
proper balance of nutrients and supplements, 
and you make it taste like something people 
already like to eat. 
Genetic engineering can be expected to aid in 
the creation of novel food preparations through 
effects on both the food itself and the additives 
used for texturizing, flavoring, and preserving. 
