16-05-2025
Are we about to edit bread? Just don't mention the Frankenfoods
How would you like your bread of the future? Would you prefer to: a) expose wheat seeds to chemicals, induce loads of mutations, ignore the abominations of nature, then pick the best seedlings? b) borrow a bacterial trick and insert an extra gene into wheat to make it disease resistant? or c) borrow a bacterial trick and rewrite bits of the wheat DNA to make it disease resistant?
If a), you're not that weird: it's called mutagenesis and Britons have chomped its results for decades. If b), there's bad news. This is genetic modification or, to use the term that effectively barred it from EU crops entirely, Frankenfoods. Britons don't eat GM. Unless, of course, you're in the US, where people have done so for
