Should genetically modified food technologies be used to solve hunger issues?
“ Close to a billion people – one-eighth of the world’s population – still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.” Jonathan Sacks A recurring problem like world hunger and food insecurity has the potential to turn the whole world into arid zones. Around 1000 years ago human abandoned hunting and started practicing crop culture and agriculture, much more food was produced in fewer efforts. As time goes by we have altered the genetic makeup of our crops for increasing yield. By using advanced technologies genetic codes of other microorganism are injected into plant genome at the specific locus to make hybrids which is more advanced and productive. Hybridization, grafting or random mutation from radiation or chemical treatments has given rise to many of our current crops, for example, golden rice. Unfortunat...