The More We Can Grow On Already

We've Gotten So Good At Growing Food That We've Gone, In A Few Generations, From Nearly Half Of Americans Living On Farms To 2 Percent. We No Longer Think About How The Wonderful Things In The Grocery Store Got There, And We'd Like To Go Back To What We Think Is A More Natural Way.

Jumping Genes Are Fundamental Because They're Agents Of Change. Everybody Knows That Organisms Evolve. What Makes Them Evolve Is That Their Genes Are Dynamic And In Motion. A Familiar Example Is The Stripe-y Corn - Called Indian Corn - That You Buy In The Fall.

Weeds Do Become Resistant To Herbicides, And It Needs To Be Managed With Multiple Herbicides.

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.

In The Last Century, As We Learned More About Genes, We Were Able To Devise Ways Of Accelerating Evolution.