Genetically Modified Food to End World Hunger; The Social and Cultural Considerations Introduction
Everyday, people put forth effort to try and end world hunger. 795 million people of the 7.3 billion people in the world, or one in nine were suffering from malnourishment in 2014-2016 (Lander). To what extent can genetically modified food help end world starvation? According to Christopher Gerry, graduate student from Harvard who is part of Schreiber Lab, a research lab that “integrates chemical biology and human biology to advance the science of therapeutics and to illuminate biology and medicine” (Rosen), says that genetically modified food could possibly be the answer to the problem. Gerry states that “modifying the genomes, the biological instruction manuals that dictate how organisms are assembled and maintained, of staple crops like
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With this much malnourishment, it affects the community as a whole. Without the proper amount of food, it makes a person more likely to fall ill and possibly die, in result, people cannot go to work to earn money to buy food or supplies to live when they are ill. This causes the government to become weak and doesn’t allow the economy to grow if there is not a group of people buying the products being produced in the country. More developing countries have the technology, money and extra food to provide for the countries that are in need of the genetically modified food. The less developed countries that will be taking in the food and growing with it, with having to learn to adjust to the new thing that has been put within their culture. With genetically modified food, it will improve the