{"id":117147,"date":"2020-12-15T11:22:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T19:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/fda-approves-gene-hacked-pigs-for-human-consumption"},"modified":"2020-12-15T11:22:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T19:22:31","slug":"fda-approves-gene-hacked-pigs-for-human-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/fda-approves-gene-hacked-pigs-for-human-consumption","title":{"rendered":"FDA Approves Gene-Hacked Pigs for Human Consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fda-approves-gene-hacked-pigs-for-human-consumption.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think I want non-gene hacked pigs for my supper. \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>For the second time ever, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a gene-hacked animal for human consumption.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, it\u2019s the GalSafe pig, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/12\/14\/health\/gm-pig-fda-approved\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/12\/14\/health\/gm-pig-fda-approved\/index.html\">reports<\/a>, a genetically modified swine that\u2019s safe even for people with allergies to eat. All in all, it\u2019s a fresh sign that genetically-altered animals and sophisticated gene-hacking technology are now becoming commercially viable and entering the mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s first ever approval of an animal biotechnology product for both food and as a potential source for biomedical use represents a tremendous milestone for scientific innovation,\u201d FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/news-events\/press-announcements\/fda-approves-first-its-kind-intentional-genomic-alteration-line-domestic-pigs-both-human-food?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery\">said in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I want non-gene hacked pigs for my supper. \ud83d\ude03 For the second time ever, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a gene-hacked animal for human consumption. In this case, it\u2019s the GalSafe pig, CNN reports, a genetically modified swine that\u2019s safe even for people with allergies to eat. All in all, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}