Playing_God_In_The_Garden

Playing God In The Garden PLAYING GOD IN THE GARDEN Written by Michael Pollan, a potato-growing author who wrote this article for the New York Times Magazine, Playing God In The Garden discusses the role of corporate giants such as Monsanto in agriculture. Monsanto is researching and developing genetically engineered seeds that allow the plants to produce their own insecticide. This helps to increase crop productivity and overall quality of the products. Certain farmers would enter into contracts with the corporation in which the farmers agree to use Monsanto seed. Pollan also states that over 45 million acres of genetically altered plants are in the field of the United States. Pollan also discusses his dilemma of whether or not he should the eat biotech potatoes that he has grown in his own garden. He discusses that fact that consumers really have no choice potatoes, pollan, genetically, food, products, own, monsanto, garden, engineered, eat, discusses, states, really, playing, plants, growing, god, farmers, fact, day, choice, biotech, article, york, wrote, wrong, writer’s, whether, useful, united, times, thought, technique, should, seeds