"Did a Swedish researcher eat the first CRISPR meal" Topic

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"In what Swedish plant scientist Stefan Jansson declares "maybe" a historic event, he cultivated, grew, and ate a plant that had its genome edited with CRISPR-Cas9. Umeå University, where Jansson studies how trees know it's autumn and how proteins allow plants to harvest light, released a 5 September press release about his meal, a pasta dish that included 300 grams of cabbage he grew from seeds that had been genetically modified with CRISPR-Cas9. The revolutionary technology vastly simplifies the editing of genes, and has triggered many debates about whether its plant products should be considered a genetically modified organism (GMO) and subject to regulation…."
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Armand

I'm confused … so please help me out:

If some people today defend the rights of parents to produce a genetically modified child (with DNA from 3 or more "parents"), and say it's perfectly safe* for our gene pool, why not genetically modified food, which only adds to the fertilizer? :)

Isn't that like double-speak, in a way? I mean, once the genetic genie is out of the bottle, Pandora won't be able to put that toothpaste back in the tube, or the box, or whatever. You know what I mean.

Dan
* And we've heard that phrase from experts before, about other things that we now know to be harmful.

(smile)

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Armand