Only a couple of decades ago, genetically modified organisms
(GMO) would have been something out of science fiction. In the
not so distant past, we never imagined we would find on our
dinner tables strawberries with fish genes, corn with bacterial
genes, and soybeans with built-in herbicides. Little did we know
that such scenes would turn into reality in a dizzyingly short
period of time. But this is now part of today's reality. A nipa
hut quitely sits amidst fields of organic rice standing
witnessing hardwork and persistence of the farmers in Sitio
Canaan, Barangay Crossing, Magallon, Negros Occidental. ©
Greenpeace/Gigie Cruz-Sy In the natural world, organisms develop
specific desirable traits through evolution. This is usually a
very slow process and driven by natural laws---not by human
beings. Typically, an organism develops a color that will
camouflage it from potential predators through hundreds or
thousands of years of selection and adaptation. And, in the
natural world, species never breed with unrel