Daily: Gene Genius? The pros and cons of DNA modification

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🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Is gene-editing – replacing sections of DNA to make plants and animals more fertile or resistant to disease – really our escape route from the threats of climate change and population growth? Since Brexit the British Government has been tearing up tight EU legislation on the practice, with DEFRA now allowing it for crops. But do we really understand the difference between gene editing and modification (GMO), or its complex environmental and social implications? Alex Andreou chews over gene editing with two experts from both sides of the debate, agriculturalist and member of the Food Ethics Council Patrick Mulvany and Professor Nick Talbot, Executive Director of The Sainsbury Laboratory. “We need to do something about farming and food production in the face of the climate emergency.” - Professor Nick Talbot “The status quo in agriculture cannot be maintained.” - Professor Nick Talbot 17:00 “Gene editing should be part of our panoply of food innovations that we need to feed people by 2050.” - Professor Nick Talbot “We need smaller farmers to have access to these technologies. Agriculture is still dominated by the big multinationals.” - Professor Nick Talbot “There's no shortage of innovation. Placing all our emphasis on gene editing is not sustainable.” - Patrick Mulvany Presented by Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:26.7	regulate plants developed through such new techniques, where the results could have been developed
1:32.2	by traditional breeding techniques.
1:34.4	A few months later the European Court of Justice decided
1:38.0	that any organisms altered by gene editing techniques
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1:55.6	and at some pace.
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