Genetically Engineered Food

We have come to a point in our technological timeline where big changes are going to have to be made, we live in days when the poor starve awhile the financial middle and and upper class of are rewarded for staying small and being able to eat lots of food and gain little weight. We waste food, electricity, gas, and a wide range of other commodities with no or little concern about our own efficiency in these areas. We sit around all day on tv's and computers (yes im doing this now), and drive our fancy cars where we need to go, yet we eat several times more food then a poor African farmer who works hours upon hours per day to barely make ends meat. In almost all poor countries there are many who are willing to work in the fields as farmers to bring in some income, but the land is too dry, the rain too infrequent, the soil to salty and the plants are just not equipped genetically to handle the harshness of some of these environments.

The answer could very well be genetic engineering, genetic engineering is the process of modifying the genetic makeup of an organism to give it special traits which would benefit its growth in environments which normally it would not survive in. Evolution has used this to a lesser extent to help species survive and evolve, but now we have the technology to work hands on with genetic material and modify it to our liking. Many may consider this some sort of abomination or evil technology because technically only god can create life. But with religion aside this technology, like all technology will have positive and negative effects on the environment and the world.

If scientists can create special crops for certain areas like Africa, not only will Africa have enough food for itself, it will be able to take export much of its produce to other countries for relatively cheap; from there other less fortunate countries can buy this inexpensive produce. This is in turn may not solve but will aid in the problem of starvation. Genetically modified food is becoming increasingly popular in the cultivation industry and would be an excellent thing to invest in. Although some believe that GE foods are dangerous, GE foods are closely regulated and studied more then any other food.

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” - Mahatma Ghandi