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Plants are one thing we do it well enough on. As far as I'm aware we have yet to do it (at scale) on livestock, or even pets.
by dnissley 3y ago
Plants are one thing we do it well enough on. As far as I'm aware we have yet to do it (at scale) on livestock, or even pets.
- lewhoo 3y agoThere is: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Enviropig https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Enviropig or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AquAdvantage_salmon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AquAdvantage_salmon or things to the likes of https://www.avma.org/news/genetically-modified-cattle-may-be-sold-food-us https://www.avma.org/news/genetically-modified-cattle-may-be...
- dnissley 3y agoLooks like the fish is the only one that's gone to market. Pretty clearly still early days. I have no doubt that with enough time we'll get there, but to say this is proof that we're technically good to go ahead and produce gmo humans seems a bit rushed -- to reiterate, the point being that the ethical issues here are much more clear than a trolley problem or stack of hypotheses.