[Love Monsanto or hate them, this is pretty interesting. Note: the use of the word “organic” in the headline is completely misleading; they mean “non-GMO.” -egg]
But here’s the twist: The lettuce, peppers, and broccoli—plus a melon and an onion, with a watermelon soon to follow—aren’t genetically modified at all. Monsanto created all these veggies using good old-fashioned crossbreeding, the same technology that farmers have been using to optimize crops for millennia. That doesn’t mean they are low tech, exactly. Stark’s division is drawing on Monsanto’s accumulated scientific know-how to create vegetables that have all the advantages of genetically modified organisms without any of the Frankenfoods ick factor.
via Monsanto Is Going Organic in a Quest for the Perfect Veggie – Wired Science.