The Chinese are a species of rice. Look it up.

Genetic engineering put to good for once.

I say for once, because the same technology is also responsible for terminator seeds. I'll explain: Corn seed companies engineer their plants to not reproduce after a generation, that way farmers have to come back each year and buy seeds instead of allowing pollination and nature do its work.

And, in case you thought this was just ranting off something I heard in a college class once...

I was just ranting until I Googled the "proof," but still.

They could have been working on a way to make the corn grow faster or yield more, but did they?

What they should be doing is trying to crossbreed corn with some type of mammal or higher primate. That way, once it's old enough, it can basically farm itself. Or at least scare off/eat crows. With some luck, instead of corn, it would grow steak or something.

A plant that produces a meat fruit...what would PETA say to that? I'm sure like most people they would decry the blatant affront to God, but beyond that, would it be a plant or an animal?

It's getting stupid in here, so that's enough for now.