Weeds Do Become Resistant To Herbicides, And

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.

New Molecular Methods That Add Or Modify Genes Can Protect Plants From Diseases And Pests And Improve Crops In Ways That Are Both More Environmentally Benign And Beyond The Capability Of Older Methods.

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

There's Almost No Food That Isn't Genetically Modified. Genetic Modification Is The Basis Of All Evolution. Things Change Because Our Planet Is Subjected To A Lot Of Radiation, Which Causes Dna Damage, Which Gets Repaired, But Results In Mutations, Which Create A Ready Mixture Of Plants That People Can Choose From To Improve Agriculture.

We Have Six-and-a-half-billion People On The Planet, Going Rapidly Towards Seven. We're Going To Need A Lot Of Inventiveness About How We Use Water And Grow Crops.