In the article "Ending World Hunger: The Promise of Biotechnology and the Threat of Antiscience Zealotry" Norman E. Borlaug discusses the advancements him and his colleagues have achieved through all their research and development. They have been able to genetically alter crops to yield more food per acre, have created pesticide resistant crops, and creating foods that have more vitamins and minerals to improve the health of countries and people living below the poverty line. Because many people lack the resources to buy food that will give them the proper nutrients they need, they suffer from lack of nutrition. With the rapid growth in the population this problem is only going to get worse and cause more world hunger. Despite all these apparent benefits there is a large amount of people in opposition of these benefits. They prefer to eat organic food that is one hundred percent natural, well many of these people are able to afford this high quality food. It is the poor and impoverished humans that need the cheap abundant food that biotechnology can provide. Without these genetically modified foods millions of people will die of hunger and the problem will only increase. I myself is one of those people that would prefer to know exactly what I am eating and where it came from and I may choose to partake in that luxury. I will not however fight the development of food for poor people by debating the scientific nature of it. I have the option to choose so I am not going to force others to go hungry because of what I believe in.
Kuparinen, Anna, Schurr, Frank, Tackenberg, Oliver, and O'Hara, Robert B.. Ecological Applications: Air-Mediated Pollen Flow From Genetically Modified to Conventional Crops, Vol. 17, No. 2. (March 2007). Published by: Ecological Society of America
In this article the authors discuss how the one hundred percent, true bred crops may become tainted by the air transportation of genetically modified pollen. This possibility is becoming a big issue with the people that are completely against the biotechnological advances being made in crops. If this occurs and continues to occur, it may become the case that there are no longer any crops that do not have any genetical alterations. They are currently studying to air flow patterns of pollen in attempt to prevent the spread to unmodified crops. With these advances hopefully they will control the transplantation in order to keep both sides, pro-biotechnology and anti-genetically modified, happy.
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