One of the biggest misconceptions about genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, is that they’re unnatural—the product of modern science and technology that has gone “too far.” Nothing could be further from the truth.
Nature, The First Creator Of GMOs
Nature has always had its own process of transferring genes from one species to another, in effect, creating GMOs. What today’s genetic scientists have done is harness nature’s process in a much more precise way.