Robert Paarlberg is a professor at Wellesley College and associate at the Weatherhead Center for International affairs at Harvard University (610). While it may be true that turning to GMO products may help to solve the world’s hunger as Paarlberg’s article "Attention Whole Foods Shoppers" states, his argument does not make a cogent case that farmers must convert to GMO farming. It is easy to understand why third world countries might face a food crisis due to lack of funds, but this argument is filled with holes and assumptions; thus, not strong enough to convince organic farmers to convert to GMO farming.
In his article, Paarlberg were not able to explain how was the population that is in demand for food was truly calculated. He stated “850 million people in low-income countries were recorded to be in hunger before the 2008 price spike in the food industry, and the number is even larger now, thanks in part to last year's …show more content…
“Africa is failing to keep up with population growth not because it has exhausted its potential, but instead because too little has been invested in reaching that potential. One reason for this failure has been sharply diminished assistance from international donors.”(616). GMO can be a good solution, but I don’t see why farmers that don’t want to harvest organic foods would be the reason why people in third world countries starve. Giving handouts will result a long-term dependency, and would make Africans continue to live in a need for food. Why work when you can receive free stuff, right? A few years ago I read a news article which stated that Africa has denied food and supplemental aid from Americans for their jewelry. Africa’s jewelry makes them very rich, yet they do not want to use their wealth for their own good. That alone means that the world should just leave them alone; unless they will ask for our