What Pollan is saying by this is that since there is such a large amount of farmland with biotech crops planted within them that there’s no way of telling if people have already eaten them or not. There are too many biotech crops out there to individually pick out which foods do and do not contain these New Leafs. The protestors of the New Leaf Superiors should not be protesting until they know for sure that they have not already eaten a genetically engineered potato. As of now, they don’t know, and it may be a long time until they find out or until the F.D.A. decides to put identifying labels on biotech foods. So until then, there is nothing to protest about.

Pollan also says in his essay that “One way to look at biotechnology is that it allows a larger portion of human intelligence to be incorporated into the plant itself. In this sense, my New Leafs are just plain smarter than the rest of my potatoes” (Pollan 509). What Pollan means by this statement is that in the past, human intelligence was used on the outside of the potatoes, since farmers used sprays to keep insects away, but now that the insecticide is produced by the potato itself, human intelligence is inside the plant. And because of this the New Leaf potatoes are “more like us than like other plants because there’s more of us in them” (Pollan 509). This relates back to evolution because we as humans are programmed to take care of ourselves once we are grown. Like the farmer with the potato, our parents or guardians nurse us when we are young, so that by the time we are old enough to go out on our own, we will be prepared to take care of ourselves and live on our own. Because the New Leafs were nursed by their farmers and supplied with insecticide that they can produce themselves, they are better prepared to take care of themselves.

The New Leaf potato had showed that humans are not only the most technologically advanced beings, but that we also have the most potential. A large part of the human purpose is to strive above and beyond—that’s how most of our advancements are made. We build upon the past in order to make our future even better. The New Leafs are a definite sign of how advanced we as humans are, since farmers used to spray insecticides on the plants themselves. Now that they produce the insecticides themselves, it’s like a whole new development in the way that crops are grown. And someday, someone will build on this advancement and maybe mak

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