Posted on 02/22/2026 5:39:53 AM PST by dennisw
However, he also argued that the world must embrace a future where controversial gene-edited foods are commonplace on supermarket shelves.
He said we will soon be eating meat and drinking milk from animals whose evolution has been ‘sped up’ using technology.
This could include cows and chickens bred to resist disease and grow faster, as gene editing techniques make them ‘more efficient’ in every way.
Experts are working out how to ‘accelerate’ the selection of traits that already occur naturally within an animal, he explained.
Scientists have bred cows with ‘elite genetics’ that could see tastier steaks, burgers and mince on supermarket shelves in the UK in just three years.
Experts in the US have come up with a way to make sperm from superior bulls more available to breeders.
Their project, called ‘Surrogate Sires’, involves genetically editing regular bulls to make them sterile, meaning they produce none of their own sperm.
These animals then receive an injection of stem cells taken from the testicles of another bull with ‘first-class genetics’.
When these ‘surrogate’ bulls go on to breed, they pass on the ‘top grade’ genes from the other bull – meaning their offspring will contain superior traits that make their meat taste better.
As a result the most desirable steaks – from the likes of Wagyu and Black Angus cows – could soon become more widely available.
The work was presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference in Phoenix.
The technology has been patented and licensed to the UK-based Pig Improvement Company which intends to commercialise the system in the next three to five years, it is understood.
‘Surrogate Sires can become an opportunity for many farmers to access genetics they never could have before,’ Dr Jon Oatley, from Washington State University, said.
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Bill Gates got the Syph from this kind of thang.....
Tampering with food genetics will perhaps make mass food production more economical but also less stable.
When traditional food production methods are replaced with bioengineering foods, it may be discovered that disease and death follow. If this has a delay of just a few years, widescale adoption may make it too late to reverse.
It will probably lead to world starvation.
“The one thing I’d be hesitant about is when they splice in genes from other species.”
If you we dying of heart failure and not able to get a human donor or are denied being on the list for health or lifestyle reasons like alcohol consumption. They have gene edited pigs to make human compatible hearts and heart valves too. So you going to turn down a life saving heart from a trans genetic pig out of nobility. I call BS 100% on that. You gonna take the heart or valve and pray hard it takes I would bet ten grand on it and any other luddite when faced with certain death they will fold like a cheap suit.
Fact I would take a valve or a heart then eat the rest of the animal for it’s spirit energy not even a second thought given.
For hundreds of years, the people of, say, Hartford, Connecticut only ate fresh vegetables in the summer and fall. There is no reason, given Hartford’s climate, that you could have a green salad in February. Other than that, they ate root vegetables and dried fruit in the winter and spring. That was true until about 1950 or so.
Where on earth did you get that? I said I was hesitant about editing in genes from other species in the food we eat. If it comes to replacement organs from genetically modified pigs that are the only possible source of life saving replacement organs, then of course we should do that. That's a completely separate question.
There are some food that are hard for cold to kill like collards, kale, Brussel sprouts, etc.
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