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‘Bringing Home the Bacon’: FDA Approves U.K. Biotech Company Plan to Produce Gene-Edited Pigs for U.S. Consumers
America First Report ^ | May 10, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 05/10/2025 6:21:09 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 05/10/2025 6:21:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Franken-Pig Ping!.....................


2 posted on 05/10/2025 6:21:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

If they can do it to pigs they can do it to humans. Altered DNA anyone??


3 posted on 05/10/2025 6:23:45 AM PDT by Trumpette1954 (Live laugh love!cper)
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To: Trumpette1954

“Altered DNA anyone??”

Pfizer already did it.


4 posted on 05/10/2025 6:30:10 AM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: Red Badger
This is an interesting post and article. The notion of using "CRISPR gene-editing technology to genetically engineer pigs" seems along the same pathway as cross-breeding which farmers and ranchers have done over centuries, with the goal of "complimentary traits." Certainly cross pollination and outbreeding have also been done, albeit in happenstance manner over centuries.

The notion that modern technology cannot possibly contribute -- as well as demonstrably ruin -- to framing and ranching would be a conclusion some might aim for, but disease-resistant livestock and plants have been an aim long before gene-editing with technology.

What seems a bit humorous is that the "new" pig might in short order find Mother Nature chasing right behind with "new" maladies. What is certain is that this world does not stay the same, a fundamental error of the current climate madness ideology.

5 posted on 05/10/2025 6:33:55 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Red Badger

Put some AI in there so they are able to discuss the benefits of bacon.


6 posted on 05/10/2025 6:37:26 AM PDT by fruser1
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Unless the AI starts “hallucinating” and they begin to think that two legs are better than four.


7 posted on 05/10/2025 6:40:10 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: Red Badger

WHY?


8 posted on 05/10/2025 6:42:32 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: Frank Drebin
This little piggy went to market
And this little piggy stayed home
This little pig had his genes edited
And this little piggy grew tentacles
9 posted on 05/10/2025 6:45:04 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: GaltAdonis
This little pig had his genes edited And this little piggy grew tentacles

Watch this 25,000lb pig aka, "Rampage II" where the bacon eats you!

10 posted on 05/10/2025 6:48:39 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: BlackbirdSST

Big Brother loves us and wants us to have more BBQ!....................


11 posted on 05/10/2025 6:49:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

As long as Pfizer or Fauci are not involved, what could possibly go wrong? After all, science guys in laboratories should know more about how pigs work than farmers. Those guys are always in the muck.


12 posted on 05/10/2025 6:52:50 AM PDT by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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To: Red Badger

Where is RFKJ on this horrific development???


13 posted on 05/10/2025 6:59:57 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Red Badger
Big Brother loves us and wants us to have more BBQ!....................

OK then, all is forgiven! I'm gonna need a bigger smoker and skillet and grill. Will there be tax incentives for these upgrades?

14 posted on 05/10/2025 7:01:03 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: Red Badger

Has the UK approved this for their own food supply?!?


15 posted on 05/10/2025 7:01:54 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Producers have had difficulty controlling the virus because it mutates quickly, rendering vaccines ineffective.

sounds a bit like the Wuhan Virus ...

16 posted on 05/10/2025 7:03:15 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger

The difference between bacon and eggs?
The hen is just punching a clock. The pig is committed.

It’s going to be tough to eat a talking Arnold Ziffel: “Pleeze don’t eat me bro’!” Babe


17 posted on 05/10/2025 7:14:42 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Trumpette1954
If they can do it to pigs they can do it to humans. Altered DNA anyone??

I don't want indiscriminate gene editing, in any context. 'Altered DNA', as you put it, was in a general manner, responsible for Covid (viral RNA genome alteration via recombinant DNA technology to produce gain of function).

That said, it's important to set the record straight regarding 'altered DNA'. Your DNA, and mine, is being altered every day, mostly causing innocuous mutations that get corrected or don't lead to any significant consequence.

Alteration of DNA with gene editing, done responsibly and with great care, can save lives and/or markedly increase the quality of life. I saw a young sickle cell anemia patient recently, in with another sickle cell crisis. Horrible situation.

Anyway, sickle cell is a the result of a single base pair substitution in the hemoglobin B gene. One base pair, out of 444 causes sickle cell anemia. This is relatively easy to fix with gene editing (though avoiding off target changes and targeting enough of the right hemoglobin producing cells are issues that have to be considered). A genetic cure for sickle cell would be game changing for many unfortunate people who inherited this disease.

One big problem in general, as I see it, is that there are always 'glory seekers' (probably more now than previously) for whom scientific 'fame' is the ultimate goal. These are the people who don't credit the people who build the framework upon which their often incremental findings are based, and these are the people who will use technology indiscriminately in order to be 'the first' to do XY or Z. These types of people can be dangerous with current technologies, and it will only get worse as technology advances.

We need ethical people. Lot's of them. Now more than ever.

18 posted on 05/10/2025 7:18:17 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: GaltAdonis
I can see the new movie title- The Attack of the SquidPig!

It might make for some delicious Calamari!

19 posted on 05/10/2025 7:18:35 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Red Badger

Oh, I’m SURE there will be no unintended consequences.


20 posted on 05/10/2025 7:25:53 AM PDT by johnnygeneric (Blocked website)
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