Molecular farming company Moolec has inserted pig genes into soy beans to generate meaty-tasting proteins that can be grown in plants.

I’m naturally quite cautious about things like this, but I’m curious to hear your thoughts.

  • Wheaties [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 months ago

    There’s still the risk of people spreading it. Sortta like espionage vineyard grafts of heirloom grapes or something. This kinda thing worries me, in this case I don’t think there’s such thing as too much precaution.

    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I’m not really sure what you mean by spreading it, like some bad actors are going to porkify the soy industry through guerilla farming? The challenge of gathering and preserving that much seed aside, for commercial farmers who grow GM crops it’s very finicky to get those beneficial traits to be expressed through each subsequent generation through traditional breeding.