Complex issues
Wednesday, 18 July 2007
It was in Charpara of our Mymensingh town 1 discovered for the first time that curd could be made with boiling milk. I bought a kilogram of such curd from a sweetmeat shop there, which was still hot and releasing vapour. That curd contradicted my known formula that boiled milk has to be left in a container for many hours to cool and form a kind of bacteria to slowly become curd.
Several years later, I came to know through a local news magazine that some sweetmeat shop owners mix a few drops of sulphuric acid with a big quantity of milk and then apply heat to that milk to form what is also known as and looks like curd. Should the final product that forms thus be called sulphurised milk or sulphuric acidised milk? One issue about this product that has been resolved is that, even though one buys it at the expense of wealth, it is not good for health.
Now a lady in Canada is going to create a big puzzle for us. She has a few of her eggs frozen for future use by her small daughter who, unfortunately, is afflicted with a disease that might incapacitate her of producing her own eggs. The professor of the Canadian university who collected the mother's eggs for use by her daughter for conception has reportedly said that the child that this girl will give birth to on using her mother's eggs would be her half-brother or half-sister. But the professor has not mentioned whether her would-be husband will become her half-father if his seeds are used for fertilising those eggs and whether her mother would then become her husband's surrogate wife.
Modern science is also creating complex issues like milk adulterated with sulphuric acid in a very restricted quantity producing what is being erroneously called and consumed as curd, and a daughter to bear the child of her mother using the seeds of her husband.
Nasreen Jahan
Mohamedpur
Dhaka.
Several years later, I came to know through a local news magazine that some sweetmeat shop owners mix a few drops of sulphuric acid with a big quantity of milk and then apply heat to that milk to form what is also known as and looks like curd. Should the final product that forms thus be called sulphurised milk or sulphuric acidised milk? One issue about this product that has been resolved is that, even though one buys it at the expense of wealth, it is not good for health.
Now a lady in Canada is going to create a big puzzle for us. She has a few of her eggs frozen for future use by her small daughter who, unfortunately, is afflicted with a disease that might incapacitate her of producing her own eggs. The professor of the Canadian university who collected the mother's eggs for use by her daughter for conception has reportedly said that the child that this girl will give birth to on using her mother's eggs would be her half-brother or half-sister. But the professor has not mentioned whether her would-be husband will become her half-father if his seeds are used for fertilising those eggs and whether her mother would then become her husband's surrogate wife.
Modern science is also creating complex issues like milk adulterated with sulphuric acid in a very restricted quantity producing what is being erroneously called and consumed as curd, and a daughter to bear the child of her mother using the seeds of her husband.
Nasreen Jahan
Mohamedpur
Dhaka.