Rick R., it WAS interesting.
One thing about the new GE tool "CRISPR" is that it reduces the time and expense of R&D. In the past, only a few huge companies with deep pockets could afford to experiment with GMOs. Of course, they focused 100% on profitability and marketability.
Now that the cost of entry is lower, more companies (and government-sponsored labs, including Third-World government-sponsored labs) can experiment with GE crops. Hopefully they will focus on crops needing lower energy inputs, less fertilizer, and capable of growing on more marginal land.
But now an even higher % of the cost will be the filed trials and other tests needed to get FDA approval (or other governments' approval). The FDA might set lower standards for crops with no transgenic DNA, since "it could have been produced" by normal breeding and selection.
I feel a lot better about a GE corn that has just a few genes "edited" to match genes from other corns, than I felt about a bacterial-plasmid-transgenic corn.
