GMO Oranges? Altering a Fruit's DNA To Save It 358
biobricks writes "A New York Times story says the Florida orange crop is threatened by an incurable disease and traces the efforts of one company to insert a spinach gene in orange trees to fend it off. Not clear if consumers will go for it though." The article focuses on oranges, but touches on the larger world of GMO crop creation as well.
Popeye meets Anita Bryant (Score:4, Funny)
No. Cannot and Will Not go there.
Re: nature and consumers (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not sure that applies. Spinach copies it's DNA into a foreign host using a totally different mechanism.
Is that Volcano Bicep Syndrome you're discussing?