(June 1, 2013 at 2:56 pm)Rhythm Wrote: They are, strictly speaking - but we've begun to use the term GMO to refer not to organisms that have been genetically modified - but the manner in which modification has been achieved. Bananas and roundup ready corn are both artefacts -insomuch as any crop can be-.
Is the manner of modification so different? It's my (very possibly mistaken) understanding that both Cavendish bananas and the Roundup-ready crops were both created through selective breeding for desirable traits. Or is it that the Roundup-ready GMOs were chemically treated that's at issue?
