It's important to understand what food biotechnology is before forming our opinions about it. Although the jargon may sound unnatural, the science is the reverse. In fact, it can be viewed as a method of organizing nature to bring out the best in nature. It's essentially a refinement of what we've known and done for a very long time. Biotech Old and New Biotechnology is the use of biological systems living things to create or modify products.
Traditional biotechnology is almost as old as agriculture itself.
The first farmer who bred the best bull with the best cow in the herd to improve the stock, rather than allowing the animals to breed randomly, was implementing biotechnology in a simple sense. The first baker who used yeast enzymes to make bread rise was likewise using a living thing to produce an improved product. Indeed, one anthropologist argues that a desire to raise grain for brewing beer a classic biotechnology product was the impetus for the first systematic farming 10,000 years ago. The old biotech that produced these changes is obviously not a single process but a number of different methods. The one feature common to these traditional biotechnologies is use of natural processes to introduce changes in foods.