Much like the Green Revolution before it, genetic modification of food crops has plenty of critics in the West who maintain that it will never meet its potential of feeding more people more cheaply. Critics were wrong about the Green Revolution, which played a major role in improving the food situation in countries like India, and according to a recent United Nations report, the critics are wrong about genetically modified food as well.
UN Development Program’s Mark Malloch Brown said, “These varieties have 50% higher yields, mature 30 to 50 days earlier, are substantially richer in protein, are far more disease and drought tolerant, resist insect pests and can even out-compete weed. And they will be especially useful because they can be grown without fertilizer or herbicides, which many poor people can’t afford anyway.”
The main obstacle to such advances right now is the often irrational opposition to genetically modified food in rich, Western countries.
Source:
UN says GM crops could rescue world’s poor. Ananova, July 10, 2001.
It is astounding that authorities fail to see that gm food plants, that cannot be destroyed with the most deadly chemical of all plants, “roundup” spray, and the “roundup ready seeds” producing it’s own herbicide, is accepted as a food. Common sense dictates that if “roundup” cannot destroy these plants – what the hell are we eating? Human bodies cannot processs herbicides that cannot destroy plants and can only destroy human cells. The authorities are as the above source indicates is motivated by greed.