#181 Everything you want to know about food with Professor Tim Spector OBE
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
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The Problem With Genetic Editing in Agriculture
I think there are grand considerations like antibiotic resistance, I think, perpetuated by our overuse of antibiotics in the farming system. And I think we can negate that with some of the, you know, new technologies that you were just talking about. You mentioned an example in the book where a particular crop was edited to make it resistant, I Think, to certain pests. So you'd have to use less herbicide until evolution sort of caught up and then they've mutated, evolved and now they can consume these crops again. We need to stop destroying our soil. It's very hard to take one bit of it and say, oh, I've got to do this or that. But
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