{"id":7736,"date":"2022-04-25T18:42:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7736"},"modified":"2022-04-25T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:42:07","slug":"gene-editing-could-upend-the-future-of-factory-farming-for-better-or-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7736","title":{"rendered":"Gene editing could upend the future of factory farming \u2014 for better or worse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Each year at America\u2019s egg hatcheries, as many as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/22374193\/eggs-chickens-animal-welfare-culling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">300 million male chicks<\/a>&nbsp;are gruesomely killed \u2014 usually by being ground up alive or gassed \u2014 since they can\u2019t lay eggs and have been bred to be too small to be worth the effort of raising for meat. Researchers around the world are using transgenic engineering and gene-editing tools in an attempt to solve this chicken and egg dilemma.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22994946\/gene-editing-farm-animals-livestock-crispr-genetic-engineering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22994946\/gene-editing-farm-animals-livestock-crispr-genetic-engineering<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Each year at America\u2019s egg hatcheries, as many as 300 million male chicks are gruesomely killed \u2014 usually by being ground up alive or gassed \u2014 since they can\u2019t lay eggs and have been bred to be too small to be worth the effort of raising for meat. Researchers around the world are using transgenic engineering and gene-editing tools in an attempt to solve this chicken and egg dilemma.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1523,811],"class_list":["post-7736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-farming","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7737,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions\/7737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}