Not to mention the incredible biomass for fuel generation (and people think that -cows- are full of it....). Or to quote one of my favorite Jeff Goldblum lines; "Now -that- is one big pile of shit." :P And the gene-splicing paper you missed dealt with lysine-guanine-mercury interactions in carrier RNA...abbreviated in the field as the Legume Factor. We won't get into the horrid mutations that occurred in those equine test animals...