Are the VIVA! Early Girl Tomatoes genetically engineered?
No they are not, at least in the modern, strictest sense of the word. The Early Girl Tomato and nearly every fruit or vegetable we eat have been genetically engineered in a sense. By selecting specific parent plants with specific traits and cross pollinating (hybridizing) them, the hope is the new seeds from this cross will produce plants that express the selected, desired traits. This has gone on for centuries. Nothing strange has been done to create the Early Girl, just some good selective breeding.
