How Gene-Edited Crops Could be the Future of Feeding the World

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The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In the decade since CRISPR gene-editing technology was first developed, it has been used to address a host of issues, such as developing new cancer treatments, designing faster rapid COVID-19 tests and to make biofuel-producing algae. Proponents say CRISPR could also help solve some of the world’s biggest food-related problems: salad greens could be more nutritious, fruits could taste better, and crops of all kinds could be altered to grow using fewer resources. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently gave the go-ahead to bring gene-edited beef to market, and CRISPR-modified purple tomatoes could be coming later this year. But agricultural technology companies still have to figure out how to overcome consumer skepticism. In this session from the WSJ Global Food Forum, leaders from two firms working to scale-up gene-edited foods discuss what it takes to get the new technology out of the lab and into supermarkets. Further reading: Get Ready for Gene-Edited Food GMO Tomatoes Could Be Returning After 25 Years. Will People Eat Them? Crispr’s Next Frontier: Treating Common Conditions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.8	All right, time to get some groceries.
0:24.9	If you look closely at the ingredients listed on most food packaging,
0:28.7	you'll find a few variations on the phrase bioengineered food.
0:33.0	Let's see, contains bioengineered food ingredients.
0:37.1	It's got a bioengineered logo right at the top, derived from bioengineering,
0:42.6	contains bioengineered food ingredients, bioengineered, contains a bioengineered food ingredient,
0:48.6	and what do you know? Bioengineered.
0:51.5	Earlier this year, the United States Department of Agriculture put new rules into effect that
0:59.3	require all foods that have been genetically modified or include GMO ingredients to be labeled
1:05.0	as bioengineered. But soon, a new class of genetically altered food could be making its way
1:12.0	onto grocery shelves. Food that's been altered using a gene editing tool called CRISPR,
1:17.5	and proponents say it could make the food we eat taste better and be healthier.
1:22.3	We found a relative of kale that has nutritional value like kale, but it itself didn't taste great,
1:28.2	and we've removed the negative flavor and created something that eats like a lettuce that
1:31.8	has really high nutritional value. That's Tom Adams, the CEO of Parwise, a startup that is
1:37.6	working to bring these new gene edited foods to supermarket shelves.
1:41.9	Adams says, unlike most GMOs, his products only have genes that naturally occur in their species.
1:48.2	Ponzi-Trovice for that is the CEO of Inari, which is developing crops that grow better
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