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Gene suppression using CRISPR is less aggressive than some "traditional" techniques that aren't heavily regulated, like irradiating seeds and seeing what sorts of mutations that produces.

So banning CRISPR and not going back and making sure you aren't using any fruit of irradiated seeds is sort of incoherent.




How would you allow CRISPR just for gene suppression? It's a slippery slope, that's a problem. Soon, you get Roundup.


One way would be to go by the statements of the people producing the plant strains, and to observe how the plant strains were advertised and used.

So for example, you could pretty easily allow gene suppression and not transgenesis.




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