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Improving the yields and nutritional benefits of existing food crops is a key future problem due to variables such as climate change and an ever-growing human population. While CRISPR isn't the only approach targeted at solving problem, it's one of the most promising, as it gives tiny and independent producers around the world access to gene editing.

While it will be some time before you see totally new fruits and vegetables created by CRISPR in your local grocery, it is not too far in the future. Various CRISPR-modified fruits and vegetables are currently available in some parts of the world, with many more experimental kinds on the way.

There are still some ethical concerns about what should and should not be modified, particularly when it comes to more complicated food sources like animals. To address them, countries all around the world are developing various regulations to monitor gene editing for food, which should make it safer and more reliable for mass production and consumption.