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In this article, we express our critical position towards using #CRISPR to engineer #pigs so that do not reach puberty. #Livestock farming should be designed with animal sentience at its core, we should not modify #animals to fit inhumane systems. allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2019/07/a…
One aspect that the article does not mention and that we clearly indicated as being problematic is animal suffering during #experiments involving #CRISPR: painful #malformations, #abortions, are common "side effects" of such experiments.
Our original statement said "#CRISPR has a high potential for causing severe #animal #suffering during the research phases (such as abortions, perinatal mortality, malformations)
We believe that we need to move towards alternative production systems that are more respectful of animal #sentience and of the #environment. Such alternatives include #cellbased meat, #vegetarian or #plantbased alternatives, and #organic, #freerange livestock farming.
Practices and research programs aimed at facilitating the maintaining of current levels of intensive industrial #animal #agriculture, and which can even foster further intensification, are incompatible with treating animals as sentient beings, and with respecting the environment.
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