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Are we really about to let three-quarters of a million people starve to death? The U.N. thinks we might. Figures describing the famine in Somalia from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) paint a consistent, horrifying picture. As of late September, hunger is besieging 12.4 million East Africans, with 3 million out of a total Somali population of 9 million living—if that’s the word—in a state of famine. The disaster is peaking in southern Somalia where in August the U.N. said aid was reaching just 20% of the people. And things are getting worse. Without more help, said UNOCHA on Sept. 6, “750,000 people are at risk of death in the coming four months.” Privately, aid workers say it’s already too late for hundreds of thousands of Somalis. Disaster was fast approaching on July 20 when the U.N. first declared a famine. We might have mitigated it if we had acted quickly and comprehensively. We didn’t. We still aren’t. More than two months later, the U.N. remains fatally short by $691 million of the $2.4 billion it says it needs to feed the starving.
The "spat" over GM foods on ethical grounds is missing the point that millions of people are starving in the world, says renowned biomaterial scientist Professor Buddy D. Ratner. The better way of increasing food production is through Research and Development in biotechnology and finding ways to increase crop yields, develop desease resistant plants, increase nutritional contents of the the plants, innovate through tissue cultures, develop technologies to grow stem cells in the body.etc. etc. The important thing is that we do not stop progress because of some ethical fears. I don't subscribe to the notion that we ignore those concerns, rather we establish very very strict parameters within which such research is conducted. The world needs better and efficient ways of increasing food production.
The "spat" over GM foods on ethical grounds is missing the point that millions of people are starving in the world, says renowned biomaterial scientist Professor Buddy D. Ratner. The better way of increasing food production is through Research and Development in biotechnology and finding ways to increase crop yields, develop desease resistant plants, increase nutritional contents of the the plants, innovate through tissue cultures, develop technologies to grow stem cells in the body.etc. etc. The important thing is that we do not stop progress because of some ethical fears. I don't subscribe to the notion that we ignore those concerns, rather we establish very very strict parameters within which such research is conducted. The world needs better and efficient ways of increasing food production.
One man's opinion [what you posted] is not the opinion of everyone.
India's Supreme Court refuses to ban open field trials of GM crops
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to ban open field trials on genetically modified crops despite a court-appointed expert panel recommending a 10-year halt on them.
Since when has a multimillion doller corperation ever cared about humanity!
Hint: Without humanity (consumers) multimillion dollar corporations would cease to exist....
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