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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.

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.

Civilization Depends On Our Expanding Ability To Produce Food Efficiently, Which Has Markedly Accelerated Thanks To Science And Technology.

We Are Sliding Back Into A Dark Era, And There Seems Little We Can Do About It. I Am Profoundly Depressed At Just How Difficult It Has Become Merely To Get A Realistic Conversation Started On Issues Such As Climate Change Or Genetically Modified Organisms.

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.