how do you like your crispr?

[cowadle]

Big Moves on The Horizon for the Cattle Industry with Use of Gene Editing Technologies - Oklahoma Farm Report

Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is back talking with Donnell Brown of the R.A. Brown Ranch located in Throckmorton, Texas. Hays and Brown talk in more detail about the potential of gene editing in the cattle industry. “Gene editing is a new frontier I am super excited about,” Brown...

www.oklahomafarmreport.com

 

[HoLeChit]

While I’m not a big fan of playing god, I always figured CRISPR editing was a much better idea in livestock than humans.

What do you think about it? More reliable profits in the future? Ecological disaster waiting to happen?

 

[Aku]

Sounds a little too good.

"It is also important to make sure consumers understand these processes, Brown said, because gene editing does not make these animals genetically modified organisms."

Yes, it does, at least according to these people.
Genetically Modified Organisms
It's also a pretty decent article.

 

[SoonerP226]

Technically, almost all of our domesticated food sources, both plant- and animal-based, are genetically modified--it has been done over the centuries by selectively breeding for desired traits.

 

[BillM]

Sounds a little too good.

"It is also important to make sure consumers understand these processes, Brown said, because gene editing does not make these animals genetically modified organisms."

Yes, it does, at least according to these people.
Genetically Modified Organisms
It's also a pretty decent article.

So we're going to genetically modify living organisms but it doesn't really count as a GMO? Sure. I believe you.

I blame all this crap on Bill Clinton.

 

[TANSTAAFL]

Don't like it at all, I've seen the movie "Rampage." Doubt we have a Duane Johnson that can save us from the monsters this will create...

Rampage (2018 film) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

However some genetically modified crops have been a good thing for the human race, like Corn and Wheat. When it comes to animals not a huge fan. Not for religious reasons, but unchecked science is never good, especially when combined with politics.

 

[Two Gun Warrior]

Don't mess with Mother Nature. changing through breeding is one thing, you start changing the DNA in any way else you may get things you can not handle.

 

[THAT Gurl]

Man I'm torn. I'm a big believer in selective breeding but I dunno. Somehow this seems like a bridge too far. I hope in a hundred years mankind can look back and make fun of this Boomer for being an old curmudgeon and trying to keep people off her lawn.