The Possible End to World Hunger

The end of world hunger or the end of precious life, do genetically modified foods help or hurt humans? Genetically modified foods are a game changer in agricultural as we know it. Genetically modified food provides advantages to crops that seem unfeasible, but in reality genetically modified food advantages are well within reach. In an effort to fight the never ending battle of world hunger, scientists have created genetically modified foods that have the impetus to harm just as many humans as they help save.

The debate over genetically modified foods or GMF—also known as genetically modified organisms (GMO)—is nothing new; the conflict has been fraught with an array of votaries and protestors since the 1970’s. GMOs are crop based organisms like, fruit, corn, cotton, tobacco, and a motley of plant species, which are altered in order to produce a more efficient and productive crop. The alterations however are not the conventional selective breeding found prior to GMO; the alterations are done at a genetic level through genetic engineering by replacing a specific gene or genes with a desired gene from an another plant, animal, virus, and or bacteria.

“The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that the world will have to grow 70 percent more food by 2050 just to keep up with population growth” (“Freedman”). Genetically modified organisms are very advantageous for the human race, because altering crops in this way can increase the overall output of the crop, by making the crop draught resistant, yield more grain or fruit per capita, decrease crop waste, and increase insect resilience, thus taking one step forward in curtailing world hunger. Genetically engineering crops can also grow in multifarious conditi...

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...dentify and eliminate it” (“Freedman”), because scientists will know exactly which gene to remove or replace to fix the problem. Most people may think that genetically altering organisms is a completely arcane technology, but “the human race has been selectively breeding crops, thus altering plants' genomes, for millennia” (“Freedman”).

Therefore the possibly negative aspects of genetically modifying organisms are greatly overpowered by the positives leaving the rejection of GMOs diminutive. Society and the world can benefit from GMOs relief for farmers, relief for third world countries, and indigence alike. GMO’s could cure the blind and prevent the millions of deaths from purely preventable diseases and other causes like hunger.

Works Cited

Freedman, David H. "Are Engineered Foods Evil?" Online Database Access. Yukon.actx.edu, Sept. 2013. Web. 11 Nov. 2013.