GM food is safe, healthy and essential if we ever want to achieve decent living standards fo rthe world's growing population. Misplaced moralising about them in the west is costing millions of lives in poor countries.
- Seven years ago, a Swiss biologist Ingo Potykus, who was the principal creator of genetically modified rice. He was hailed as potentially one of mankind's great benefactors. He started a new green revolution to improve the lives of millions of the poorest people in the world. It would help remedy vitamin A deficiency, the cause of 1 to 2 millions deaths a year,and could save up to 500000 children a year from going blind.
- Seven years later, the realisation of Potryku's dream keeps receding. GM crops should now be growing in areas where no crops can grow, example drought-resistant crops in arid soil and salt-resistant crops in soil of high salinity. Plant-based oral vaccines should now be saving millions of death fom diarrhoea and hepatitis B.
- However, because of possible harm to human safety or the environment or because it is ill-suited to the needs of poor farmers in the develiping world. Most of GM crops is yet in the market. The Western countries reflects a persistent suspicion of GM crops. But developing countries like China and India believe biotechnology could become its fastest-growing industry in the next 15 years. There is still doubt that GM crops can be accpeted in the worldwide.
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