I was in the hippie organic store the other day (because I like it and their chicken tastes better) and I saw, in the produce section, some peppermint. The sign on the bin said it was Non-Genetically Modified Peppermint. Now, a kinder spirit than mine would probably take that to mean that this peppermint didn't have hormones added to it to make it grow bigger, or have it's DNA recoded to make it greener, or some other way in which people messed with it. But me? I just laughed. Because peppermint is a naturally occurring hybrid species. I suppose it's inaccurate for me to giggle about that, since it's not like people hybridized it. Still, just because people didn't modify it, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeppermintI'm splitting a very fine hair, I know. It would have been better if it was a bin of loganberries.
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