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CRISPR Is Going To Revolutionize Our Food System—And Start A New War Over GMOs
In five years, there might be a little CRISPR-edited corn in your breakfast cereal or CRISPR-edited wheat in your pasta. CRISPR'd tomatoes and CRISPR'd pork might follow. There's already a little CRISPR in your yogurt. It's not hyperbolic to say that CRISPR-Cas9—new technology that makes it possible to quickly and easily edit DNA—is changing the future of food. The method could eventually be used to tweak almost anything we eat, selecting traits that can make agriculture more environmentally...
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Nope...I don't eat cereal, pasta or "heart healthy" grains...My worry would be once they take the fat out of milk to make it more "healthy",which will screw up my yogurt, kefir making and ruin the wonderment of butter. Old as dirt agendas that prop up the cheap grain industry is why we can't have anything nice. Now,if they could use this to make crickets taste like steak,we might be onto something,but I'm not holding my breath..Or my fork.
And the stupid war on fat will continue...Forever.