Gene-edited food regulations: whether it's a plant or animal shouldn't matter, but it does now
- Written by Alison Van Eenennaam, Researcher, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis
Cows at the University of California, Davis beef research facility. Photo credit: Alison Van Eenennaam/ University of California, Davis, CC BY-NC-SA
We eat mutations every day. All the vegetables, grains, fruits and meat humans consume as part of their diet are jam-packed with DNA speckled with mutations and beneficial variations.
In 2017, the Unite...