内容摘要：That was the last time Mr Yonatan’s family heard from him – when he said he was setting out with other migrants towards South Sudan.

That was the last time Mr Yonatan’s family heard from him – when he said he was setting out with other migrants towards South Sudan.

Some of the solutions to the problems Prof Sang mentions are already waiting in the wings. She works at the Roslin Institute, where Dolly the Sheep was cloned nearly 30 years ago. It now leads the world in developing gene-edited animals.Prof Sang’s colleagues at Roslin

that is resistant to the PRRS pig disease six years ago.They can’t yet be commercially sold to UK pig farmers - but Genus, a British company that has commercialised the PRRS-resistant pigs, has received regulatory approval for their use in Colombia.The firm also has an application for permission to introduce the pigs to the US market which, if given the green light, could be approved as early as next spring. Genus is also planning to seek approval for the commercial use of their gene-edited pigs in Canada, Mexico and Japan.

Despite the strong opinions on both sides, there appears to be scope for consensus around some applications of the technology.For instance, Mr Stevenson of CIWF does think it’s at least possible that gene editing could be applied in an ethical way.

To do so, he says, it would need to meet three criteria: that any change it brings about is unlikely to cause animal welfare problems; that its objectives cannot be met by any less intensive means; and that it will not have the effect of entrenching industrialised livestock production.

The PRRS-resistant pigs may tick all three boxes in specific circumstances, according to Mr Stevenson, as do efforts to use gene editing to enable the egg-production industry to produce female-only chicks to avoid the need forPeering up to wave at her husband from their home, his wife Mary said she was over the moon for him.

"This is definitely a celebration," she said."This is what he earmarked that he would do... he's wanted to do this for a very long time, so it's wonderful."

Four Guernsey residents have been recognised in the 2024 King's Birthday Honours list.Jurat David Robilliard has been made a Member of the British Empire (MBE) for services to the church and to the Bailiwick of Guernsey.