Our current food system is facing a myriad of critical challenges. The United Nations predicts that the world population will reach 9.3 billion people by 2050, [meaning] we will need to produce 60% more food to feed the world in the next decades. Current food production processes are not up to the task, and … producing the amount of food needed using traditional farming practices will take a heavy toll on our natural resources and cause increased climate change. The Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR/Cas gene editing technology (“CRISPR”) offers a possible solution to our food system problems.

CRISPR technology can be used in several ways to improve our food system. For example, the benefits include [deleting] certain allergens, increasing food production by reducing harvest times or enhancing [the] rate of growth, enhancing the nutrition or taste of existing foods, reducing health concerns associated with current food production processes, and reducing food waste.

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