What is stopping gene-edited food from saving our planet?

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What is stopping gene-edited food from saving our planet?
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Not science, apparently. 🧐 engineering

Livneh also points out that mutations that one can change with CRISPR are transformations that could have spontaneously happened in nature at some point in time. "The difference is, instead of searching for this specific mutation in nature, we can pinpoint the exact place in the gene that we want to alter. Here, everything that I'm 'changing' in the lettuce already exists in the vegetable but in small amounts," she says.

The huge variety of answers to these questions means anyone who thinks the only relevant issue is whether GM crops are safe to eat is by default viewing the existing way society deals with those questions as largely satisfactory," Greenpeace chief scientist Doug Parr wrote inOthers argue that it is the lack of public acceptance, coupled with bureaucratic red tape, which is the real villain and is impeding progress.

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