일본사람들은 소고기, 돼지고기, 닭고기 다음으로 말고기를 즐겨 먹는다고 하는데, 이 말고기의 일본말 애칭이 바로 ‘사쿠라’라고 한다.
말고기의 선홍색 빛깔이 벗꽃과 닮은데다, 맛 또한 소고기와 별다른 차이가 없어 구분하기가 쉽지 않은 데서 비롯된 것으로, 말고기가 쇠고기 행세를 하듯 가짜가 진짜 행세를 한다는 의미로 사용하게 되었다는 것이다. 한국사람들의 경우에도 양다리를 걸치고 이쪽 저쪽 눈치를 보는 사람들을 빗대어 ‘사쿠라’라 표현하기도 하는데, 어쨌든 그 의미는 대동소이하다.
그런데 최근 네델란드의 한 대학 연구진이 만든 인조고기로 햄버거를 만들어 오는 10월부터 이를 상품화 할 것이라고 하는데, 이제는 햄버거에도 가짜 고기를 넣은 사쿠라 햄버거가 등장한다는 말 같다.
특히 이들 연구진이 만든 인조고기는 소의 줄기세포를 이용해 만든 것으로, 진짜 고기와 같은 질감과 맛을 내기 위한 연구를 계속하고 있다고 하니 출시 후의 반응이 어떨지 궁금하기도 하다. 하지만 가짜가 진짜일 수 없듯이 인조고기가 실제고기 행세를 할 수 없을 것이다. 또한 유전자 변형식품(GMO:Genetically Modified Organism) 에 대한 우려의 목소리가 높은데 이 인조고기 또한 유전자 조작 식품일 것이다.
유전자 조작 식품이 알레르기, 독소발생, 항생물질에 대한 내성 등 인체에 여러 가지 문제를 일으킨다는 것은 이미 사실로 확인되고 있다. 이런 식품들은 조작된 유전자를 삽입해 새로운 단백질을 만드는 것이기에 인체에 알레르기를 유발 할 수 있고, 예상치 못한 독성이 발견될 수 도 있다. 또한 이런 식품들은 항생제에 내성이 강한 유전자를 사용하기 때문에 몸에 해로운 유전자를 양산해 낼 수 있다는 점이다.
실제로 1998년 영국 로이트 연구소에서 유전자 조작 감자를 10일 동안 쥐에게 섭취케 했는데, 그 결과 쥐의 신장, 간, 쓸개, 심장, 창자 등 주요 장기가 손상되고 뇌의 크기가 줄어들고 면역기능이 약화되는 것을 확인 할 수 있다고 한다. 또한 1999년 초 유럽 13개국 과학자 22명이 재 실험을 통해서도 같은 결과를 얻었다고 하니 정말 우려스러운 일이 아닐 수 없다. 인조고기를 사용한 햄버거의 상업화는 곧 인간이 유전자 조작식품에 의해 지배당하는 날이 왔다는 슬픈 현실을 말해주는 것은 아닐까?
아틀란타 한국일보 조미정 부사장 02-28-2012
2012년 2월 28일 화요일
2012년 2월 27일 월요일
오스카 사진 중 최고 사진- 라이프 잡지 선정: LIFE's Best Oscar Photos
LIFE's Best Oscar Photos (1942-1972)
Elizabeth Taylor walks through a crowd of admirers at the Oscars in 1961 — the year she won her first Academy Award, for her role in BUtterfield 8.
Grace Kelly and Clark Gable arrive at the 26th annual Academy Awards at the RKO Pantages Theatre in 1954
Kirk Douglas, elegant in white tie, smiles and waves as he enters the RKO Pantages Theatre in 1954.
Television actress Sandra White laughs while arriving late at the 1953 Academy Awards
Humphrey Bogart and his wife Lauren Bacall arrive at the 27th annual Academy Awards at the RKO Pantages Theater in 1955.
Natalie Wood, Best Actress nominee for her role as Deanie Loomis in Splendor in the Grass, gets her hair done prior to the 1962 Academy Awards.
Presenters Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly wait backstage at the RKO Pantages Theatre during the 1956 Academy Awards.
John Wayne (whose image is being projected on the huge screen) accepts the Best Director Oscar from Olivia DeHavillan for an absent John Ford during the 25th annual Academy Awards in 1953 — the first year the ceremony was televised.
Best Classic Oscar Photos
The great, inimitable Charlie Chaplin — who had been living in self-imposed exile in Switzerland for two decades — blows a kiss to the crowd while accepting an honorary Oscar in 1972 for "the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century." When he was introduced to the audience, Chaplin received a twelve-minute standing ovation.
Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty, co-stars in the Elia Kazan-directed romantic drama, Splendor in the Grass, attend the 1962 Academy Awards.
At the 1942 Academy Awards, Joan Fontaine gazes at the Best Actress Oscar she won for her role in Suspicion — an achievement that made her, incredibly, the only actor or actress to ever win an Oscar for a performance in an Alfred Hitchcock film.
The one and only Audrey Hepburn cradles the Oscar she won for her role in Roman Holiday
Presenters Ginger Rogers and George Murphy dance together while holding an Oscar backstage at the RKO Pantages Theatre in 1950.
Marlon Brando (right, with French singer and actress Line Renaud) casually holds his Best Actor Oscar for On The Waterfront at the 1955 Academy Awards at the RKO Pantages Theatre.
Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed hold their Oscars as Best Supporting Actor and Actress in From Here to Eternity — a film that won eight statuettes in 1954, including Best Picture.
Producer Buddy Adler's Academy Award for From Here to Eternity stands amid hats in the coat check room at Romanoff's restaurant in Beverly Hills during an Oscars after-party in 1954.
OSCARS: All Best Picture Reviews
THE GREATEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME! (Part 1)
THE BEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME! (Part 2)
Audrey Hepburn. Marlon Brando. Elizabeth Taylor. Kirk Douglas. Grace Kelly. Bogart and Bacall … you get the picture. And during the Golden Age of Hollywood, when it came to the Academy Awards, LIFE got the picture, too, again and again.
In fact, from the red carpet to the stage to the after-parties (where tuxedos and gowns were de rigueur) there were few noteworthy Oscar moments that LIFE missed. Here, in honor of Hollywood, actors, actresses and the magic of movies in general — we’re fans, after all — LIFE.com offers a selection of Oscar photos that capture not only the familiar glitz and glamour of the proceedings, but those far rarer moments when a superstar drops his or her guard and, for an instant, we see someone who seems remarkably like us — albeit better-looking, richer, and with more charisma than most of us could summon in a lifetime of trying.
(Trivia note: There are various, competing stories around the origin of the name “Oscar” as a designation for the coveted statuette. Some historians believe that Bette Davis, of all people, coined the term because the statue resembled (so the story goes) her first husband, band leader Harmon Oscar Nelson. Another creation myth has it that a secretary to the great Golden Age studio head Louis B. Mayer saw the very first Academy Award statuette and pronounced it a dead ringer for Norway’s King Oscar II. No one, however, has ever definitively nailed down who first uttered the name Oscar in connection with the Academy Awards.)
Elizabeth Taylor walks through a crowd of admirers at the Oscars in 1961 — the year she won her first Academy Award, for her role in BUtterfield 8.
Grace Kelly and Clark Gable arrive at the 26th annual Academy Awards at the RKO Pantages Theatre in 1954
Kirk Douglas, elegant in white tie, smiles and waves as he enters the RKO Pantages Theatre in 1954.
Television actress Sandra White laughs while arriving late at the 1953 Academy Awards
Humphrey Bogart and his wife Lauren Bacall arrive at the 27th annual Academy Awards at the RKO Pantages Theater in 1955.
Natalie Wood, Best Actress nominee for her role as Deanie Loomis in Splendor in the Grass, gets her hair done prior to the 1962 Academy Awards.
Presenters Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly wait backstage at the RKO Pantages Theatre during the 1956 Academy Awards.
John Wayne (whose image is being projected on the huge screen) accepts the Best Director Oscar from Olivia DeHavillan for an absent John Ford during the 25th annual Academy Awards in 1953 — the first year the ceremony was televised.
Best Classic Oscar Photos
The great, inimitable Charlie Chaplin — who had been living in self-imposed exile in Switzerland for two decades — blows a kiss to the crowd while accepting an honorary Oscar in 1972 for "the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century." When he was introduced to the audience, Chaplin received a twelve-minute standing ovation.
Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty, co-stars in the Elia Kazan-directed romantic drama, Splendor in the Grass, attend the 1962 Academy Awards.
At the 1942 Academy Awards, Joan Fontaine gazes at the Best Actress Oscar she won for her role in Suspicion — an achievement that made her, incredibly, the only actor or actress to ever win an Oscar for a performance in an Alfred Hitchcock film.
The one and only Audrey Hepburn cradles the Oscar she won for her role in Roman Holiday
Presenters Ginger Rogers and George Murphy dance together while holding an Oscar backstage at the RKO Pantages Theatre in 1950.
Marlon Brando (right, with French singer and actress Line Renaud) casually holds his Best Actor Oscar for On The Waterfront at the 1955 Academy Awards at the RKO Pantages Theatre.
Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed hold their Oscars as Best Supporting Actor and Actress in From Here to Eternity — a film that won eight statuettes in 1954, including Best Picture.
Producer Buddy Adler's Academy Award for From Here to Eternity stands amid hats in the coat check room at Romanoff's restaurant in Beverly Hills during an Oscars after-party in 1954.
OSCARS: All Best Picture Reviews
THE GREATEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME! (Part 1)
THE BEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME! (Part 2)
2012년 2월 26일 일요일
일본 지진 Before and After 사진: Japan Earthquake: Before and After
Japan Earthquake: Before and After
In just over two weeks, Japan will be observing the one-year anniversary of the disastrous magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that struck its east coast in March of 2011. The destruction was unprecedented and the loss of life and property were staggering -- more than 15,800 are confirmed dead, with another 3,300 still listed as missing nearly a year later. Photographers documented the many faces of this tragedy and have now returned to give us a look at the difference a year can make, re-shooting places that were photographed during and immediately after the quake. Collected here are 20 of these pairings. They are interactive: Starting with number 2, click the images to view a fading before/after comparison.
In just over two weeks, Japan will be observing the one-year anniversary of the disastrous magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that struck its east coast in March of 2011. The destruction was unprecedented and the loss of life and property were staggering -- more than 15,800 are confirmed dead, with another 3,300 still listed as missing nearly a year later. Photographers documented the many faces of this tragedy and have now returned to give us a look at the difference a year can make, re-shooting places that were photographed during and immediately after the quake. Collected here are 20 of these pairings. They are interactive: Starting with number 2, click the images to view a fading before/after comparison.
