“What is genetically modified about such products Monsanto puts out is that the corn cannot go to seed.”
I was reading a book last night where the author was talking about how corn could no longer propagate naturally because the husk would not permit it. In other words, without a human or animal to strip away the husk, it would just rot where it lay.
Who’s right in all of this? I have no idea.
For example - wheat.
A wheat stalk that grows in nature had better drop its seeds.
A wheat stalk that grows under human cultivation had better hold onto its seeds.
Thus domesticated wheat has lost the ability to propagate “naturally”.
OMG! Anti-technological mysticism says that the loss of the ability to procreate “naturally” means bigbadawful humans are messing with nature again in bad ways!
There is a reason Bulldogs are delivered by C-section.
Bulldogs have “lost” the ability to propagate naturally.