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40. Evolution is nature's way of producing genetically-modified food.

Humans have multiple ways of doing so. There is almost certainly nothing in the produce department of your supermarket, or even your farmer's market that is not genetically modified. Humans have been practicing selective breeding and cross-pollination for milennia. Just about everything we eat today has been manipulated by humans, genetically, through these practices. And it's a good thing that's so, since most of that type of modification has been done to increase production and improve appearance and flavor of foods. Modern corn, for example, that has never been in a laboratory, is still the product of centuries of development using traditional genetic modification strategies.

Today, we can speed up that process in the laboratory. We can do more that way to crops than has been done in the past, using traditional techniques, and we can do it much faster. But, everything grown for food is a product of human-caused genetic modification, in one way or another.