In agriculture, for instance, the fight over genetic engineering represents the extension of a dispute, surprisingly heated and now almost a century old, over a seemingly arcane question: the proper manner of providing nutrients, especially nitrogen, to plants. And this, in turn, is related to an even older struggle—a quarrel over the nature of life itself.
In agriculture, for instance, the fight over genetic engineering represents the extension of a dispute, surprisingly heated and now almost a century old, over a seemingly arcane question: the proper manner of providing nutrients, especially nitrogen, to plants. And this, in turn, is related to an even older struggle—a quarrel over the nature of life itself.
