GMO winners of the 2013 World Food Prize

I have read so many anti GMO coments on this site, so its time to read another side to the argument.



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Harvest: The winners of the 2013 World Food Prize are sure to upset the anti-science political left. All are in the biotech field and one works at Monsanto, a multinational corporation and maker of genetically modified crops.

Biotech scientists Marc Van Montagu of Belgium, Mary-Dell Chilton and fellow American Robert Fraley, an executive vice president, chief technology officer and scientist at the oft-demonized Monsanto Co., are this year's winners. Like all previous recipients, they were chosen based on their having "advanced human development by increasing the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world," says the World Food Prize Foundation.

Over-the-edge groups on the left see something else. The blogosphere is already sizzling with cracks about the "poison" these biotech scientists have stirred up in their industrial vats. The terms "frankenfood" and "ecocidal criminal" also get tossed around lightly in loopy attempts to indict genetically modified organisms (crops) and their creators.

National Public Radio reports that awarding the prize to GMO scientists "is likely to get some publicity, some of it in the form of anger and protests," and noted that several European governments "have refused to approve the planting or importation of some" GMO crops.

Opposition to such crops is foolish. Not a single reputable scientific study has found them to be a health threat. Roughly 80% of the processed food we eat in this country are made with genetically modified ingredients.

Opposition is also borderline criminal. Because they can be engineered to resist drought, insects, cold weather, disease and herbicides, and because they can dramatically increase yields, genetically modified crops have the potential to wipe out hunger. Blocking their growth — and consumption by starving populations, which has happened in Africa — is an act of depravity.

It's been said Norman Borlaug, the scientist who started the World Food Prize, has saved a billion lives through genetically modified crops. Countless more will be mercifully spared in the coming years if the left would give up its anti-science campaign.



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Sponsoring a foundation set up to give you a prize is bound to be a winner!

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Hans

Huffington Post? You have got to be kidding.

Liz

Even The New York Times suggested that this award may be a PR attempt to counter the growing global backlash against GMOs

The New York times also has other articles in favor of GMO food. Jackie produces an article about the dangers to pigs, I produce this article which is favorable, so, we can all find articles to bolster our beliefs. There isn't any such thing as organic foods, they all use some pesticides, if they didn't the vegetables and fruits would be blemished and no one would want to buy them. I grow a small patch of strawberries and I have to weed them, lots of hard work, growers use weed killer on the fields before planting so they don't have to weed, if they had to weed those large fields, the strawberries would be so expensive that people couldn't buy them. Nothing is perfect and pure.





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