{"id":382441,"date":"2025-08-29T12:38:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/382441\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T12:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:38:17","slug":"should-gene-edited-pork-be-labelled-a-plea-for-transparency-and-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/382441\/","title":{"rendered":"Should gene edited pork be labelled? A plea for transparency and choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"848\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dr-Matt-Culbertson-1-848x565.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-single-post size-single-post wp-post-image\" alt=\"Dr Matt Culbertson, COO at pig genetics company PIC, speaking at a recent event. Photo: PIC\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>Dr Matt Culbertson, COO at pig genetics company PIC, speaking at a recent event. Photo: PIC<\/p>\n<p>On paper it sounds great: no more pigs being susceptible for PRRS. No more diseased pigs, no more suffering and considerable efficiency gains. Made possible by novel technology by breeding company PIC. Yet not everybody is a big supporter of gene editing technology. Critics say meat consumers or countries are entitled to know whether gene editing has been used to produce meat. PIC\u2019s COO Dr Matt Culbertson responds.  In spring 2025, the US Food\u00a0and\u00a0Drug\u00a0Administration (FDA) approved the co<\/p>\n<p>Get full access to all stories on Pig Progress<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-title\">This Premium article is exclusively available for subscribers<\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Obtain insights from exclusive interviews<\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Dive into articles covering trending industry topics<\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Get a glimpse into pig farms worldwide<\/p>\n<p> All the news is brought to you by experienced editors and experts from around the<br \/>\n world <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6Cfpv0t.png\" title=\"source: imgur.com\" alt=\"Redacteur 1\" width=\"56\" height=\"56\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Vincent<br \/>ter Beek<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/N1IdEhO.png\" title=\"source: imgur.com\" alt=\"Redacteur 2\" width=\"56\" height=\"56\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Kees van<br \/>Dooren<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Fck1euC.png\" alt=\"Redacteur 3\" width=\"56\" height=\"56\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Treena<br \/>Hein<\/p>\n<p> <img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Treena-Hein-picture-1-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-image-1-1 size-image-1-1\" alt=\"Hein\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Matt Culbertson, COO at pig genetics company PIC, speaking at a recent event. Photo: PIC On paper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3846],"tags":[28391,35234,267,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-382441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-breeding","9":"tag-gene-editing","10":"tag-genetics","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115112097243253282","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}