GMOs and Mother Nature are closer than you think!
McWilliams, New York Times
November 9, 2010
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/gmos-and-mother-nature-closer-than-you-think/
In this article, James McWilliams reports that Swedish researchers have discovered an enzyme-producing gene in a meadow grass that naturally crossed into sheep’s fescue almost 700,000 years ago!
“Whether organic, conventional or biotech, the act of farming is, as the classicist-raisin farmer-writer Victor Davis Hanson once wrote, “the elemental fight with soil, water, and living organisms to produce harvests at a profit.” To divide the precious manifestation of that fight — our food supply — into “real” and “frankenfood” insults not only those who grow and produce our food, but nature itself.”
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