Are genetically modified seeds the solution to the problems of poverty and environmental degradation across the world?
EVEN by the standards of the very dynamic 20th century, the recent innovations in biotechnology, especially those relating to agriculture, appear startling in their rapidity. And for those of us who are relatively uninformed laypersons, these changes appear as not just happening at breakneck in speed but very confusing. Thus, modern bio-technology, especially the creation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), is often presented as a magic solution or universal panacea for the problems of poverty, inadequate food access and nutrition and even environmental degradation across the world. Conversely, there are people who present the picture of Frankensteinian monsters and major human health hazards being created by science, which interferes too rapidly and too intensively with long-term natural processes of transgenic evolution. The reality, as always, is far more complex than either of these two extremes. Even today the total food production in the world is adequate to feed the hungry
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