Innovative and evolving breeding methods, like gene editing can be used to end animal suffering, like pig castration without painkillers and cow dehorning that uses caustic paste or hot irons. These and other painful food production techniques put farmers in the crosshairs of animal welfare advocates. Recombinetics is eliminating these processes from modern food production by using gene editing, which is a more precise, efficient version of the traditional breeding long used by farmers. Along with animal welfare, gene editing can also be used to increase productivity and disease resistance.