I don’t agree. The natural genetic material in you and me does not divide forever, our cells hits the hayflick limit and stop dividing.
Eating pigs with editted genes will not alter our genes any more than eating normal pigs. When you eat a pig, you do not start encoding the gene sequences of pigs into your genome. You just break down pig meat and absorb its constituent nutrients. The same thing happens with the modified pig meat. It does not alter your DNA. But it might do bad or unexpected things to the pig gene pool. It might cause the disease in question to become more virulent. It will almost certainly incentivize factory farmers to keep pigs in more densely packed living environments. Soon we’ll have square pigs like in space truckers.
But as more recent studies have been conducted, it has become apparent that the acquired spacer regions of CRISPR-Cas systems are indeed a form of Lamarckian evolution because they are genetic mutations that are acquired and then passed on.
That does not mean what you think it means. It is talking about the pig population acquiring traits through non-natural mutation/selection process.
PostWallHelena 0 points 13 hours ago
I don’t agree. The natural genetic material in you and me does not divide forever, our cells hits the hayflick limit and stop dividing.
Eating pigs with editted genes will not alter our genes any more than eating normal pigs. When you eat a pig, you do not start encoding the gene sequences of pigs into your genome. You just break down pig meat and absorb its constituent nutrients. The same thing happens with the modified pig meat. It does not alter your DNA. But it might do bad or unexpected things to the pig gene pool. It might cause the disease in question to become more virulent. It will almost certainly incentivize factory farmers to keep pigs in more densely packed living environments. Soon we’ll have square pigs like in space truckers.
That does not mean what you think it means. It is talking about the pig population acquiring traits through non-natural mutation/selection process.