If they can do it to pigs they can do it to humans. Altered DNA anyone??
“Altered DNA anyone??”
Pfizer already did it.
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.