Giving Thanks for Technology

As you sit down to Thanksgiving dinner this year, you can thank modern agriculture for many of the foods you’ll be putting on your plate. While we usually don’t think about GMOs on Thanksgiving, biotechnology has a role in many of our favorite dishes.
One of the most common biotech crops is corn, and some varieties of sweet corn are genetically engineered to resist damaging insects like earworms and corn borer. GMO squash varieties – yellow crookneck, straightneck, and zucchini