GMOs & My Ultimate Climate Test: Pests Or Pesos?
MANILA: You decide: GMO or MOG? GMO means genetically modified organism, plant or animal or whatever. The eggplant you're eating now at home or in a restaurant is probably GMO; your sweet corn too. Bt talong, Bt corn . Bt for Bacillus thuringiensis , a bacterium that produces a substance that is toxic to the fruit & stem borers in eggplant and corn, the specific Bt gene inserted into the crop by scientists to defeat the pests without spraying any pesticide – the Bt produces the toxin that kills the larvae of the borers. With a GMO food you are eating bacteria of the known poisonous type. I don't like the idea of eating bacteria when I know I'm eating bacteria. Actually, we are eating bacteria all the time, so what else is new? So I'm playing now with GMO. So, I juxtapose a letter and GMO comes out as MOG. Is there such a word? There is. MOG means (Merriam-Webster, merriam-webster.com ): dialectal: to move away; depart. chiefly diale