The Biotech Coup: Microbes to Rule the World

There is an active effort to modify the substrate of life on our planet: to recolonize the very soil on the surface of the Earth with genetically engineered microbes. Millions of acres of U.S. farmland have already been inoculated. The soil itself is being re-formatted from a natural ecosystem into a patent-pending, CRISPR-modified, nitrogen-fixing, Roundup-spittin’ […]