The Cure or the Disease?

Genetically Speaking: The Cure or the Disease?

World Hunger today or world hunger tomorrow is the question that faces us today. We have to understand the problem we are facing.
As the human population approaches the 7 billion mark and still continues to grow at an exponential rate, agricultural experts asked whether the world can continue to produce enough food for everyone. . . . people in many developing countries such as China and India are becoming wealthier and are eating a richer diet, including more meat, which requires more cropland to produce.( Turk, J., & Bensel, T. 2011)
We cannot simply do nothing. We have to find new and better ways to produce food. We cannot just search for short term benefit and not research what the future may bring. Genetically engineered food could give people enough food to eat but does come at too high a cost. Genetic Engineering of Food is not the way to cure world hunger but it is a way to stop or slow the growth of hunger. The question must be answered on several different levels. We see that the yeilds of the genetically engineered food is higher but at what cost. The cost of feeding people today could mean starving people tomorrow or worse contaminating them. Genetically engineered food yeild more crops but we must examine how it is done. The plant crops are resistant to insects. Through gentic means these crops are either unappealing to insects or at worse poison to them. Making it unappealing means these insects have to find alternative foods. This could mean that they will devestate other products and start a change in the way ecosystem. Poisoning the insect would cause a similar change. We have to consider that these insect maybe the food source for other insects and birds. What happens when they must seek new food sources? What happens when these insects are