Brilliant

Scientists have begun putting genes from human beings into food crops in a dramatic extension of genetic modification. The move, which is causing disgust and revulsion among critics, is bound to strengthen accusations that GM technology is creating "Frankenstein foods" and drive the controversy surrounding it to new heights.

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Environmentalists say that no one will want to eat the partially human-derived food because it will smack of cannibalism.

  Independent UK article

Although the crossing of human and plant life lends itself to some nice images, remember all those "myths" about creatures that were part animal and part human? So maybe they're not myths at all. Maybe they're our future (and our past, as the world cycles round and round and round ad infinitum).

Now, here's the kicker - the reason...

Japanese researchers have inserted a gene from the human liver into rice to enable it to digest pesticides and industrial chemicals.

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Present GM crops are modified with genes from bacteria to make them tolerate herbicides, so that they are not harmed when fields are sprayed to kill weeds. But most of them are only able to deal with a single herbicide, which means that it has to be used over and over again, allowing weeds to build up resistance to it.

But the researchers at the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences in Tsukuba, north of Tokyo, have found that adding the human touch gave the rice immunity to 13 different herbicides. This would mean that weeds could be kept down by constantly changing the chemicals used.

There you go! Don't quit applying pesticides and industrial chemicals. Hell no. That would ruin the chemical industry. Instead, modify the plants so they can digest those toxic chems. Ah, the ingenuity of man! Impressive, isn't it?

I think if we just cut to the chase and started eating each other, everything would come to a nice resolution eventually.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.