Back to Basics

I was at work the other "landscaping."  I put landscaping in quotes because I do work for a landscaping company but I don't really know anything about landscaping so I just walk around and look like I'm doing something....shhh...don't tell my boss.  So I was talking to one of the guys who is a for real landscaper and was asking him questions about trees.  He was telling me about how they (scientists) can modify a plant and take out a gene from the plant's DNA.  (Now mind you I have just read a little bit about genetically modified (GM) food.) We were talking about the fruit of cherry trees and how scientists can alter the DNA and he said just like they do for seedless watermelons.
I went on to tell him that most of the corn grown in the United States is GM and that it is really changing how humans are eating.  He completely agreed with me which shocked me because I wouln't think that he would care about nutrition.  He made a point that if we mess with nature too much, that nature will win!  We will mess with it too much and thats how we will be taken care of....meaning extinction.