Walking through the produce aisle in the middle of winter is really a spectacular thing. Even during the cold season, there is an abundance of things like sweet peppers, cucumbers, strawberries, citrus fruits, tomatoes and potatoes. Of course, these things would not be available in quite this way if it weren’t for things like industrialized mass-production agriculture, robust international trading and GMOs.
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are different from traditionally grown and harvested foods in that they are the product of direct genetic manipulation. This means that some sequence of DNA was changed, removed or inserted. Even stretches and sequences from one plant could be incorporated into the genome of a different plant.