The agriculture industry is betting that new technology for editing the genes of plants will yield enhanced crops—and potentially reset a long-running debate over genetically engineered seeds.
Seed developers including Monsanto Co. MON -0.08% and DowDuPont Inc. DWDP -0.15% have invested in gene-editing technology, which enables scientists to make precise changes to plants’ existing DNA. Executives say they’re also strategizing on how to introduce it to consumers without arousing the same fears and suspicion that followed the development of earlier biotech crops, which involved adding genes from other species.
“There’s a big piece of this that is about explaining the benefits,” said Hugh Grant, Monsanto’s chief executive, speaking at the WSJ Global Food Forum in New York Tuesday.
Persuading consumers to support gene-edited crops will require engaging them “at a very local level,” said James Collins, who heads DowDuPont’s agricultural division .
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We are the only country in the world that allow GMO’s in their food. Most comes from Monsanto, they also make Round Up. They pay our politicians a lot of money to allow this. Now they are talking about seed the same way, know you know why we have one of the highest cancer rates in the country?
ReplyDeleteIf they say they can modify plant genes, then why don't they modify the plants from which heroin and cocaine are produced? To rid them of their ability to produce these addictive substances or even eliminating these plants would certainly go a long way to solving the deadly drug problem.
ReplyDeleteNO to GMO's ...only use Heirloom Seeds (God's original seeds), then save from the last harvest for the next year...the ONLY way to grow anything.
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