genetic modification

Yes, he's at it again. The comments boards are alive with support for this troublesome aristocrat (will nobody rid us of him?). I think he would really like us to go back to hunting-gathering. On the contrary, because organic farming is so inefficient it would deforest the planet if it were...

The current issue of The Scientist (see ref below) has an interesting article on poppy cultivation and genetic modification of the poppy plant. With 40% of the world’s legal medicinal opium production centered in Tasmania, Australia, plant scientists there were working on transgenic poppies...