People have been gardeners for thousands of years. In that time we have modified plants to meet our needs, whether that be good storage, easy harvest, or ripening at the same time. It’s usually a win/win, we get food, the plants get looked after. However some of the changes have been so drastic the plants can no longer survive without us.
- Corn
- Cauliflower,
- Cabbage
- Broccoli
- Carrots
- Pineapples
- Nectarine
- Bananas
- Zucchini
- Pumpkin
- Artichokes
- Potatoes
- And how could this list be complete without mentioning genetically modified plants? While this is far too short to get into the whole debate, it has to be said that a lot of the hysteria about GMOs is just that – hysteria whipped up by talk of ‘frankenfoods’ or religious thinking. The idea that we shouldn’t add genes to a species is way too late – we’ve been doing it for a very long time. When two banana species or several potato species were crossed thousands of years it was introducing genes that would not have been in that plant naturally.
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