Editing food prices 💲

🧬 The Agri-Food Innovation and Sustainability Enhancement Chair with the University of Saskatchewan is confident that genetic improvements accomplished through gene editing will contribute to lower food prices in Canada.

    • The topic was under the spotlight in the Swine Innovation Porc held in conjunction with the 2023 Banff Pork Seminar.

💸 According to specialists, gene editing allows the possibility to increase the innovative capacity of food production and, hopefully, contribute to keeping food prices a little bit lower in Canada.

    • But will the regulatory system treat gene edited livestock as equivalent to conventional livestock? There’s no regulation in Canada for gene-edited livestock, so developing that system from scratch would take a lot of time – perhaps unjustifiably so, since there’s no evidence so far that the risk is there.

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