Children Health Defense – The Defender
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March 23, 2022
In as little as two years, Americans could be biting into their first gene-edited burgers, courtesy of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) regulatory clearance of gene-edited cattle.
The animals, created by bioengineering company Recombinetics, have genes modified to make their coats shorter and slicker.
The genetic modification to their coats is intended to help them better withstand heat stress, allowing them to gain more weight and increase the efficiency of meat production — but at what cost?