Would you drink wine from genetically modified grapes?
I (Ed) would. They're not talking about putting in genes from spider monkeys or some such; just speeding up the kind of genetic development that would otherwise take decades of work, trying to get genes for, say, disease resistance from one kind of grape to another without altering the wine-making characteristics of the recipient grape.
The grapes wine are made of are already the result of, in some cases, centuries of cross-breeding. There's nothing particularly "natural" about most of them, in that they didn't evolve to their present state purely through natural processes; they had help from humans.
So what's the difference?
(Via Fermentation.)
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Sign me up for Spider Monkey wine! Just think of the special powers it could give you.
OK, so maybe Monkey Wine won't be a major commercial success, but like you, I don't understand the 'consumer outrage' about GM grapes, we've been modifying genes of fruit and veg for millennia, that's why they crop well and taste good.
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