An example of this is rice that is genetically engineered to contain vitamin A to aid in such deficiencies and increased nutrition in Asia, where rice is a staple food. However, critics in Asia and elsewhere point out that the root cause of malnutrition is not understood by proponents of this golden rice, as it is called. In fact, the roots of malnutrition lie at the causes of poverty and hence those who are poor and unable to afford the abundant food production are not going to necessarily benefit from such rice. As the biotech industry in the west face negative publicity in the way they have introduced genetically engineered food, they have started different types of marketing strategies. Functional foods is one of them.
Media bias is another.
While over-population can also have negative effects on the environment, much of todays production and consumption processes are unsustainable and causes more problems than increasing populations, alone. The problems of the mainstream media in the USA are slowly being more and more realised within the US as well as having been long known outside . Given the influence that the US has around the world, the lack of international news by the mainstream media, and the lack of unbiased reporting and debates on the US foreign policy can lead to unaccountability of US foreign policy decisions made by the politicians and other power holders. The self-censorship of the mainstream due to the corporate ownership also means that meaningful news coverage is declining and heavily leaning towards business interests.