Can Biotech Food Cure World Hunger?

I. Introduction

A. Food prices remaining high in the United Nations estimates that the number of

hungry people around the world could increase by 100 million in 2012 and pass

the one billion mark. Many of world leaders in Rome scheduled for November

will set an agenda for ways to reduce hunger and increase investment in

agriculture development in poor countries. (Opinion Pages: Biotech)

II. Can Biotech Food Cure World Hunger?

A. There has been a great debate over genetically modified crops and food has

been contaminated by political and aesthetic prejudices, making the people fear

of big science about local, organic production. Genetic modification is

analogous to nuclear power because, nobody loves it, but climate change has

made its adoption imperative. As Africa's climate deteriorates, it will need to

accelerate crop adaptation. As population grows it will need to raise yields.

Genetic modification offers both faster crop adaptation and a biological, rather

than chemical, approach to yield increases.

III. If Biotech Industry Is Serious About Solving World Hunger, It Is Poorly Attacking Symptoms Only

A. What seems to be so equally important to bear in mind is that the promise of

the technologies such as genetically enhanced foods, or any other technologies

that could help solve the effects of poverty, such as hunger, cannot be an end in

itself. If this is the case, then the root causes of hunger would continue and the

exploitive practices could continue, further increasing disparities between rich

and poor. While the rich would be able to provide some rest bite from the hunger

through such technologies, they would maintain, even increase, the developing

nations' dependencies upon them. (Global Issues: World Hunger)

IV. World hunger a worldwide problem.

A. World hunger is one of the biggest problems

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