Asked if tomatoes containing a gene from a fish would “taste fishy” in a question on a 2004 poll conducted by the Food Policy Institute at Rutgers University th

Asked if tomatoes containing a gene from a fish would “taste fishy” in a question on a 2004 poll conducted by the Food Policy Institute at Rutgers University that referred to one company’s efforts to forge a frost-resistant tomato with a gene from the winter flounder, fewer than half correctly answered “no.” Genetic manipulation will define the next major shift in human progress. Computers transformed inanimate things, giving them function and pseudo-life. DNA hacking will transform living things, allowing us to customize ourselves, our pets, our food, our plants, and entirely new forms of life.