Don GMO foods lead to bigger crop yields which will feed more people?
None of the GMO crops on the market today have been engineered for higher yield. In fact, a two-year study at the University of Nebraska showed that the most widely grown engineered crop, Monsanto’s GMO soybean, actually yields less than natural soy varieties (1). The Nebraska research confirmed findings from the University of Wisconsin and other independent trials comparing GMO versus non-GMO soy. An analysis of 8,000 trials found that non-GMO soy yields were significantly higher than the GMO variety (2). In 1999, a US Department of Agriculture report compared yields of biotech and natural varieties. There was a statistically significant yield gain in the biotech variety in only four of twelve region-crop comparisons. In seven there was no difference, and one region showed a significant yield loss for farmers using GMO seed (3). Biotech companies like to use the argument of feeding more people in their PR. But this subject requires a closer look at the causes of hunger. The world curr
