date:Sep 03, 2013
enetic engineering
In the New York Times piece A race to save the orange by altering its DNA, the source for this article, the author implies that genetic engineering is the equivalent of cross breeding. In a section titled millenniums of intervention, she writes, The reality is that human intervention has modified the orange for millenniums, as it has almost everything people eat. Before humans were involved, corn was a wild grass, tomatoes were tiny, carrots were only rarely orange and dairy