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GMOs feeding a growing world
On 08, Dec 2014 | In Featured, GMO’s and The Environment, Seed Treatments | By admin
In a recent letter to the editor, (“Time to seek out non-GMO foods, Nov. 19) the author states: “The implementation of genetically modified organisms cannot be a permanent solution.”
Nothing could be further from the truth. Genetic modification of crops is critical to providing for the expansive food needs of people around the globe, now and in the future.
Today, the same philosophy of growing the highest quality, most successful crops continues with the added benefit of modern technology. Modifying plants to grow in our changing environment and challenging weather conditions is how we will be able to sustain the food needs of the exploding world population that’s estimated grow from the current 7 billion people to over 9 billion by 2050.
Genetically modified foods are nutritionally equal and safe, some even having more nutritional benefits. As both an agriculture student at Delaware Valley College and a leader in the Manor FFA chapter, I have spent many hours talking about and researching GMOs and can tell you that the food being produced today is no different than the food of 50 years ago.
Thousands of studies here in the U.S. and across the globe have found that GMOs pose no risk to human health.
What is a risk, however, is misinformation that clouds the reality of the need for and the positive effects on the environment, economy and food production that GMO crops provide.
Kaleb Long
Manor Township
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