Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications

Anti-GMO Sentiments

According to estimates, between 80 and 90 per cent of cheese in the USA and Great Britain is manufactured using chymosin produced using gene technology[1].Most of the rest is produced using rennet extracted from the stomachs of suckling calves[2]. "Take your pick: eat GMO cheese, or be a baby-killer?"

The "Yuck Factor": Eating Human Proteins

Even among people who are perfectly willing to contemplate genetically engineered cheese, there seems to be a distinct "yuck factor" regarding using the human genes, even though there could be significant health benefits to doing so.

As an additional mind-twister: if we use the human reference sequence, we would essentially be making cheese from Craig Venter's genes...