Eat Edible Cotton (it's rich in protein)

We have worn cotton all the time, it makes our undies, shirts, wipes the nail polish off your finger, but we don't eat them. Cotton has been known worldwide to make clothing, but genetic engineers have finally made it edible. Why? Cottonseeds are very rich in protein, and cotton produces enough seeds to make half a billion people met the daily requirements daily, a year. However, the seeds weren't edible before because it contains gossypol, its tocix chemical that helps protect the cotton plant from its predators. No one and stomach gossypol except for cows and other ruminants. If you remove gossypol, it wouldn't be as rich in protein, and if you remove all the gossypol, the cotton plant is defenseless and insects will devour it. Keerti Rathore, a professor at Texas A&M University, used the technique of RNA interference, which constructed a genetic sequence that blocked the enzyme that produced gossypol in only the seeds. That way, the cottonseeds are still protein-rich and edible, and the rest of the plant keeps its toxin, such as in its leaves.
This article relates to science and biology because it involves the modifying of genes in cotton in such a way that it is safe to eat but yet able to keep its defenses from insects. Also, to genetically modify it and to do it successfully with the plant surviving and pass on its new trait. It is finding free protein with the plants the environment provided for us.
We care because most of us don't meet up with as much protein as they should, and with edible cottonseeds, five-hundred million people could be met with their protein needs. It would be better for our health, so why waste it. Cotton can not only be used for clothing, but it could also be used for our bodies internally and externally.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1920290,00.html