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I’d flip it: If I ran a bacon company and I didn’t have CRISPR pigs I’d advertise in large red print “CRISPR Free” Or “Non-genetically modified” People are
by charliebwrites 1y ago
I’d flip it:
If I ran a bacon company and I didn’t have CRISPR pigs I’d advertise in large red print
“CRISPR Free”
Or
“Non-genetically modified”
People are afraid of lab grown meat already, they’ll be terrified of CRISPR meat
My competition won’t be able to advertise the same
- nothercastle 1y agoIf this becomes common it will be illegal to label food as gmo free
- aaronbaugher 1y agoThat's possible. I don't know the current status of it, but in the 90s the FDA had ruled that dairy farms which didn't inject their cows with supplemental bovine growth hormone (BST) couldn't put that on the label. Their argument was that putting "BST-free" on a label suggested that BST might make the milk less healthy in some way, and the FDA had ruled that it didn't, so you weren't allowed to market your milk in a way that could give that impression. Kind of bizarre, considering that food advertising routinely suggests all sorts of good or bad things about products, like the idea that if you drink a certain brand of beer or drive a certain model of car you will be surrounded by hot models. But there's long been a revolving door between Big Ag and departments like the FDA and USDA, so not exactly surprising that the FDA would go to bat for a Big Ag Pharma product.
- Aloisius 1y agoSure. And I'd advertise in large print, "PRRS Virus Free" Considering the prevalence of PRRSV, it would be difficult for farms with non-CRISPRed pigs to say the same. Scare tactics can work both ways here.
- smallnix 1y agoFarms without immune pigs can still claim it. Do some sampling tests, culling etc and call the product "virus free". But calling modified pigs not modified is tougher, I think.