GMOs

The human population is increasing greatly after War World II. Now, the world population is over seven billion; and, according to Azasi and Ho (2010), the world population will be double in 2050. Due to this rapidly increasing in population, we are now facing a very serious problem which is food secure. This problem affects all countries in the world, and it is mostly affected developing countries since their agriculture system cannot product enough food. On the other hand, developed countries are more worry about the safety and taste of their food.

In their research paper, Azasi and Ho (2010) have presented two alternative solutions to solve food secure problem; they also define the advantage and the disadvantage of the two solution. The first solution is the genetic modified crops (GM crops). The production yield of GM crops is very high, and it is cheaper since GM crops have high resistant to pest and weed. However, GM crops can affect the surrounding environment and cause great damage to human and other living being; and, not all developed and developing countries are accepted GM technology. In addition, a country needs to achieve a certain level of technology and wealthy to implement GMO. The second solution is organic farming style. This solution is more about increasing the safety and taste of food than the production yield of food. Furthermore, this style requires a lot of labor work and time, and its cost is very high. For most developed countries, this farming style is being considered the best solution for the food secure since their culture, soil, pest and weed condition, and weather are suited to implement organic farming style.

In addition, we can see that many countries are against GMO. But why are they rejecting ...

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Overall, OF is a farming style that is good for improving the environment. Organic food will reduce health risks; the profit will increase because the demand for organic food is very high. However, Organic farming is not the best solution for food secure in the big developing country like China, India, Vietnam, and other. Therefore, GM is the best solution to increase the food supply in those big developing countries or overpopulation countries. However, there are some new problems arise. How to make the farmer adopt the GM technology? How to decrease the impact of GM to the surrounding ecosystem and human? How to reduce the change of GM crops modify their consumer genes? This is what the world is a worry about. But, for our own understanding, more than haft of our country food supplies are or make from GM crops, or has some relate with GM crops.