One For The History Pages

Will the largest challenge we face in the future of food production be the ever ballooning world population, the lack of natural resources, or available farm land, or the combination of all those? More than likely, if it continues on its current course, the ever popular anti-biotechnology mindset will be the major factor in sealing the fate of the world’s hungry and ensuring a world wide food crisis for generations to come. There should be no argument that GM technology should be tested before it is put into the mainstream of food production, and labeled as such once there; everyone has the right to know where their food comes from and how it was produced. What should be argued loud and long is the refusal to put GM technology to use for the world’s hungry. Hopefully more and more people will recognize the good GM crops can provide. And perhaps generations from now people will look back on our inexplainable fear of genetically modified foods in appalled and baffled wonderment, rather like we do now when regarding the fear and hysteria recorded in the history pages over the development of life saving vaccines.