So does my wife, who's worked in the gene therapy field. I, a non-scientist, am not as qualified as my wife on this subject. However, I do knnow everything we eat has been genetically modified, plants and animals alike.

For example, the first ears of corn, grown and consumed by the people of what is now Central America, millennia ago, were tiny blobs of plant matter. It took a long time to get corn to grow in size, and it didn't require work in a laboratory.

What we can do in a lab, therefore, merely speeds up what we have already done countless times before.

By the way, what my wife doesn't trust is irradiated food.