Here’s the latest on genetically modified pork, from NextGov:
The United States Food and Drug
Administration has authorized gene-edited pigs entrance into the food chain for
human consumption—as German-style sausages.
Gene-editing can make changes in an
organism’s DNA that could occur in nature or through selective breeding but
would take much longer without a tool like CRISPR.
The FDA authorization is
investigational, and limited to these particular pigs, but shows that gene-editing livestock
to quickly produce desirable traits for improved food production is a viable
strategy for helping feed the planet’s growing population.
Uh huh. Here’s the final quote:
“There’s a trust that comes with
university-based research,” he says. “We just want to make sure the research is
valid, and the animals we produce are healthy.”
The “trust that comes with university-based research”? With all the corruption in the peer-reviewed studies
(RetractionWatch does nothing all day but track the retractions in peer-reviewed research),
well, that trust would seem to be long gone. Read the full report here.
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