Crops in the Cold

Scientists have recently found a gene in plants that is the cause of why they slow down in growth during the winter. It's a gene called Spatula! It causes the plants to slow down in cooler temperatures, around winter-time, so they can adjust and still live. But researchers at the University of Edinburgh think that they can change the gene around to where they can make the crops do the opposite; grow faster in colder climates and produce food. They researched this Spatula gene and found out that when it was low, the plants would grow about twice as fast in lower temperatures than they would normally, and they found this out after they messed with the gene. This could create more food supplies for future developing countries and future populations.

Personally, I am for and kind of against this. I'm against it... really because I just don't want people to be altering plants and making them produce more food only for us, just to benefit us. I don't know why but there is just something in me that when people mess with nature, it makes me mad. But some of the reasons I am for this is that if there are more food supplies, we can support other countries and if not only for us, we could probably use that food to benefit some of the surrounding wildlife, assuming the plants that are used are some things that the wildlife could eat, like corn, carrots, etc. But all in all I'm really just iffy about this, mostly because I don't really want humans to be messing with nature, because I just don't think that it's right.