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FDA: People Can Eat These Gene-Edited Pigs (www.nextgov.com)

Genetically-altered pigs are now on the menu.

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.

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Sharine Borslien
Sharine Borslien
6 months ago

The wayward wizards are psychopaths who constantly invade and mimic, and then invert and pervert everything of the Natural Order.