re: #42 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

“Genetic engineering” became too scary a phrase, so the wordsmiths created “genetic editing”. But even that must now be too scary, so we now call it “directed evolution”:

Directed evolution comes to plants

Genetic engineering by any other name is still genetic engineering.

Yep. And it’s deeelicious! Honestly, we’ve been genetically engineering plants since someone had the bright idea of cultivating wild grass and turning it into wheat.