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Is your tomato "franken food??"
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Nope. Gene edited food is hopefully something that will never be mainstream in the UK, and I will certainly never eat it by choice. Terrifying.
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It is no different than selective breading.
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Nope. Putting fish DNA in strawberries or similar bears literally no resemblance to getting one big muscular breed of sheep to mate with a breed that produces fantastic wool in an attempt to get offspring with lots of meat and good wool. Plus Monsanto is literally evil.
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A lot of the new CRISPR stuff involves very minor DNA edits that could be accomplished with traditional breading, but are easy to do with CRISPR. It is different than the virus insertion stuff. Monsanto is evil, but that doesn't mean that everyone who does gene editing is evil.
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I see your point but Monsanto are heavily involved in Crispr tech now. Apart from the fact that I think gene editing food is unnecessary- more about profit that philanthropy, allowing big pharma companies to patent the world’s food source just doesn’t seem like a good idea!
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We have a growing population and changing climate. Advances in agriculture are needed to meet these challenges. You only hear about the bad people involved in agro-biotech but there are a huge amount of universities out there working on solving major problems.
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If you have a problem with patent law then recognize that you have a problem with patent law and not with the underlying technology. If it is used correctly it has the potential to do a huge amount of good in the world.
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I don’t know the answer. All I do know is that it feels fundamentally wrong to have big companies controlling who does and doesn’t get to eat. There are, as I imagine you agree, substantial ethical concerns. The tech is advancing quicker than the world / Law can keep up.
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