The US has approved CRISPR pigs for food: Pigs whose DNA makes them resistant to a virus could be the first big consumer product using gene editing. : futurology

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 29 points 7 months ago

Finally, some CRISPR bacon.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

-"I said CRISPR!"

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

I'm excited for it, honestly. It's really too bad all of this is happening during a time of deregulation, but CRISPr was a discovery that has fascinated me since it first started making headlines.

[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

Fixing their living conditions? Nah, just make it so they they can suffer even worse.

[+] The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[-] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 11 points 7 months ago

our opinions of appearance and their perceived 'intelligence' have no bearing on their ability to suffer; nor the unfathomable harm the animal agriculture industries are doing to the environment and our health.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

I get my chickens from local farmers. They live a good life.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The natural life span of a chicken is ten years or more. Your chickens don't have a good life, they have at best a shitty childhood where they are not able to express their instinctive behaviours.

That you are able to lie to yourself despite so much evidence being available to you speaks to the power of carnism, denial, and self delusion.

[-] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 7 months ago

let's say they do, then what happens?

[-] Jabril@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago

If you Google "how intelligent are chickens" you will be surprised to find out they are much more intelligent than most give them credit for.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago

Technology used to exploit both swine and humans, to the detriment of both their lives and well-being, for the benefit of entrenched capital.

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

Well, this is how we get zombie pigmen. So thats cool I guess.

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

[-] Alloi@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

the rich are going to start having kids that live unusually long, have unusually similar symmetric features, and have unusually high intelligence.

like miranda from mass effect.

[-] SilverFlame@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Like the plot to Gattaca

[-] Alloi@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

bingo

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Maybe first meat, gmo agriculture has been around a long time.

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