Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) are the key to help end our world crisis which is world hunger. Approximately 30 million people will die in 2017 just because they don’t have food to eat. This might seem like a small number compared to our world population of 7.4 billion people, but out of those 7 .4 billion, 2 billion of those people don’t have enough food to support themselves and let alone their families. GMO foods are a key factor to help end world hunger and grow our food supply so we can cater to the countries that are in need of food for their population.
GMO stands for Genetically Modified Organisms. Scientists make GMOs by editing the genes of a plant or animal, it's referred to as a “gene splicing”. Gene splicing is basically coding a gene with diferents proteins. They can take characteristics out or put new into the genes. Gene splicing is done in a laboratory. The transcriptions of the DNA are produced into mRNA, this process is called mRNA translation. mRNA translation is a large family of RNA molecules that send genetic information from DNA to the ribosomal (proteins), where they categorise the amino acid sequence (organic compounds or mixture) of the protein products of the gene expression. (nongmo project majority of paragraph, 2017).
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If you do not know what a developing country is, it is a country with poor agricultural abilities. Those countries sometimes have bad soil so they can’t grow good crops to feed their population. As well as having diseases that can kill of the crops. GMO’s can be altered to be more effective in developing countries. GMO’s can be more insect resistant and can survive harsh weather better than organic crops. (Nuffield council, 2017) Also Crops can be genetically modified to contain additional nutrients that are lacking from the diets of many people in developing countries. (Nuffield council,