"Amid GMO Strife, Food Industry Vies For Public Trust In CRISPR Technology," October 25, 2017

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Courtesy of National Public Radio, Husted, Kristofor, "Amid GMO Strife, Food Industry Vies For Public Trust In CRISPR Technology," National Public Radio 25 October 2017

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This National Public Radio report focused on new gene-editing technology called Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, or CRISPR. Dozens of crops and livestock are expected to be developed with CRISPR, which is an emerging technique to genetically engineer food. 

Transcript of NPR's "Amid GMO Strife, Food Industry Vies For Public Trust In CRISPR Technology"

Source-Dependent Questions

• How is CRISPR different from GMO? How is it similar?
• How can this technology be useful in improving food production?
• The U.S. Department of Agriculture has stated it will not regulate CRISPR-developed products. Do you agree with the USDA? Use examples from this source and other to explain your answer.

Citation Information 

Husted, Kristofor, "Amid GMO Strife, Food Industry Vies For Public Trust In CRISPR Technology," National Public Radio, 25 October 2017. Courtesy of National Public Radio