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Genetically Modified Food: A Potential Economic Disaster
Title: Genetically Modified Food: A Potential Economic Disaster
Category: Law & Government
Details: Words: 1115 | Pages: 4.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Genetically Modified Food: A Potential Economic Disaster
<Tab/>840 million people throughout the world currently do not have access to adequate food supplies. (United Nations) The vast majority of these people live in undeveloped countries. Biotechnology corporations have promoted GMO's or genetically modified organisms as a possible solution to World Hunger. Most GMO's are food staple products such as rice, corn, maize, and wheat that have been modified to make them better. These modifications are wide and varied. A …showed first 75 words of 1115 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1115 total…to the world. As opposed to ending the crisis on world hunger, GMO's will actually lengthen it by putting third world farmers out of business. Since hunger is a geopolitical problem it cannot be solved simply by increasing overall food production. Without third world farmers who are able to compete with the first world, it is unlikely that a solution to world hunger will ever be found. As a result, GMO's should not be used.
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