@cjd

And people have done that *forever,* literally since the beginning of domestication of animals and crops.

All of them were genetically modified using various techniques. None of the fruits or vegetables you buy in store today or plant yourself are actually found in the wild.

Without thousands of years of genetic modification, we'd be still eating worms and leaves, with infant mortality of 30% and life expectancy of 30 years, rather than writing code.