If eggplants could talk would you listen? What do you think they would tell you?

There was once a huge farm. Although the farm is doing well, the owner wanted to bring in lots of profits. He heard about the thing called genetically modified eggplants. Scientists claimed they are pest and insect resistant. He decided he would try it and see if it could bring him more harvest. He smiled as he imagined fanning himself with a wad of cash.

On the nearby fields, the eggplants heard the news through their faithful friends, the chickens. Upon receiving the news, the eggplants gathered around and talked about the possible effects of the upcoming invaders. Their leaves all pointed towards the ground in obvious gloom.

Eggplant 1: I don't feel good about this. You all know how this could wipe out our breed. Soon the farmer will realize he will be making more and more money if he will only be planting the foreign variety. And he will never want to plant us again. I fear for our family. I fear we won't be able to have a chance to multiply.

Eggplant 2: I am saddened by this, not just for our breed but for the humans too. I heard from our corn friends that these invaders can actually cause diseases to humans and other animals too. This tests that they are planning are potentially harmful. What are we to do?

Eggplant 3: Nothing. We can't do anything about this. We can't talk them out of it. Those people claim that this will bring development to agriculture. They are telling other people that there are no fatal effects in humans and the environment. And that they have experimented about this a number of times and they have proven it to yield purely good results.

Eggplant 4: Humanity is hopeless, soon enough they will genetically alter themselves to be pest resistance just like the Bt Eggplants.

A sigh of desperation echoed as the farm's atmosphere shifted to a mix of fear and alarm. The eggplants fell into silence knowing that they have always live that way. They don't have a voice and they have no one to speak for them. There may be some but only a few.

(Allyn May Canja loves to eat fried eggplants and she doesn't want genetically modified eggplants to destroy her liver. She also loves the book Animal Farm by George Orwell.)