In Agriculture, People Have Taken Wild Plants

Even As The Population Doubled From Three To Six Billion, We Managed To Race Ahead With All Kinds Of Technological And Scientific Events In Agriculture - From Using More Fertilizers To Mechanization To Advanced Plant Breeding.

Myths About The Dire Effects Of Genetically Modified Foods On Health And The Environment Abound, But They Have Not Held Up To Scientific Scrutiny. And, Although Many Concerns Have Been Expressed About The Potential For Unexpected Consequences, The Unexpected Effects That Have Been Observed So Far Have Been Benign.

We Wouldn't Think Of Going To Our Doctor And Saying 'treat Me The Way Doctors Treated People In The 19th Century', And Yet That's What We're Demanding In Food Production.

We Have Domesticated Crops Over A Very Long Period Of Time, Like Tens Of Thousands Of Years. And Crops Get - Seeds Get Carried. Sometimes, If They're Very Small Seeds, They Get Scattered Off Trucks. Pollen Travels.

As People Around The World Become More Affluent, They Are Demanding Diets Richer In Animal Protein, Which Will Require Ever More Robust Feed Crop Yields To Sustain.