Overpopulation is another source of stress on agricultural systems. Completely ignored was the fact that Kenya's present birth rate will quickly overrun any possible agricultural system. There is a finite amount of land that can be put into production, this land must be managed for the long term. Current agricultural practices are quickly ruining that land by erosion and saltification. The solution is not to genetically engineer plants that will grow in salt flats but to limit our growth and use resources wisely.
Biotechnology is radically different from our common experience.
A new car engine with a computer virus does not threaten every other car on the road. The same cannot be said for a new genetically engineered breed of corn that has a corn virus. This technology must be handled with extreme caution. I have long sought a balanced report on the myriad of issues surrounding food. One of these, GMO, is an increasingly important foreign policy debate.