Not because of some horrible event related to the food supply, but because of more aggressive spinning of the media. In fact, you ve been enjoying foods enhanced by biotechnology for most of the last decade. And the news is all good lower prices and more abundant food. As for the future, the potential to eliminate human suffering is enormous. Right now, according to the World Health Organization, more than a million kids die every year because they lack Vitamin A in their diets.
Millions more become blind.
WHO estimates that more than a billion people suffer from anemia, caused by iron deficiency. Reasonable people can disagree on the best applications for this technology. Still, the critics want to talk about the dangers of genetically modified crops. The Environmental Protection Agency wants to regulate the use of certain bio-engineered corn seeds because they include a resistance to pests. Specifically, the seeds are bred to include a toxin called BT that kills little creatures called corn borers, so farmers don t need to spray pesticides.