Pork from gene-edited disease resistant pigs should be on grocery shelves in 2025

[R]eports suggest that gene editing could bring us disease-resistant pork as soon as 2025. It’s been thirty years since the first genetically modified tomato hit store shelves. That first promise of revolutionized farming has only grown as genetic technologies have improved, though it has remained mostly unfulfilled.

Thankfully, that appears to be changing as US regulatory authorities are expected to approve a new pig that has been gene-edited to make it more resistant to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS). This idea of gene-edited super livestock isn’t a new one, either. In fact, we’ve seen quite a few attempts at it in the past.

Scientists previously created a “super stud,” a gene-edited cow, and several gene-edited pigs, which we reported on earlier [in 2024]. These latest reports of disease-resistant pork build off those earlier successes from Genus, the international breeding company behind the genetically modified pigs.

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