Saturday, 21 July 2018

Fruits of Their Labours

It has been suggested that gene editing techniques are on the verge of completely rewriting our ideas of the contents of the cornucopia. New fruits that seem about to appear include apples with red flesh, peach-flavoured strawberries and seedless tomatoes et cetera(https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jul/19/weird-new-fruits-could-hit-aisles-soon-thanks-to-gene-editing). It could all get very confusing and I am not sure whether I would welcome such developments (being more than a little 'old-school', I like things to look and taste how I expect them to be). We could rapidly get to a situation where the fruits and vegetables wouldn't be recognisable to people in the present generation.

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