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The NFU backs gene editing. Do you ?
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<blockquote data-quote="ladycrofter" data-source="post: 8660077" data-attributes="member: 616"><p>The big conundrum is African swine fever for me. I was lucky enough t go to a talk by the Dolly the sheep man years ago at Edinburgh uni. Me being anti GM.</p><p></p><p>I don't know anything about pigs but he said that western pigs, a different species from wild African pigs, have no immunity to it and don't have the ability to create immunity to it. He reckoned it wouldn't be long before all the pigs in Europe are wiped out save a very few that have a mutation to resist it. (Always some mutations in anything but unlikely to be enough to repopulate.)</p><p></p><p>So the only way to make them immune was to gene edit. It made me stop and think what is good and what is bad? </p><p></p><p>Should we let the pig industry die?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ladycrofter, post: 8660077, member: 616"] The big conundrum is African swine fever for me. I was lucky enough t go to a talk by the Dolly the sheep man years ago at Edinburgh uni. Me being anti GM. I don't know anything about pigs but he said that western pigs, a different species from wild African pigs, have no immunity to it and don't have the ability to create immunity to it. He reckoned it wouldn't be long before all the pigs in Europe are wiped out save a very few that have a mutation to resist it. (Always some mutations in anything but unlikely to be enough to repopulate.) So the only way to make them immune was to gene edit. It made me stop and think what is good and what is bad? Should we let the pig industry die? [/QUOTE]
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