QotD: ''A tomato contains more technology than an iPhone."

"''A tomato contains more technology than an iPhone.' That headline is a metaphor that perfectly encapsulates the point that every modern crop is the result of mankind taking the given in nature and transforming it into something radically different.'"

"The real story of agriculture is the transformation of the rare, inefficient & scarce into the common, plentiful & cheap. It’s the story of creating living tech to solve problems that have plagued generations before us. Ag-tech is something to celebrate, not shun... 

        ~ C.S. Prakash commenting on article by Amanda Maxham:
          'Who should we thank for all those wonderful fruits and vegetables? ‘Not Mother Nature’'
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