Do we need GE crops to “feed the world”? Scientist Jonathan Latham explains why it is important to understand that this is a fallacy. In his words, “there is no global or regional shortage of food. There never has been and nor is there ever likely to be. India has a superabundance of food. South America is swamped in food. The US, Australia, New Zealand and Europe are swamped in food (e.g. Billen et al 2011). In Britain, like in many wealthy countries, nearly half of all row crop food production now goes to biofuels, which at bottom are an attempt to dispose of surplus agricultural products.”
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Engineering the Perfect Baby: CRISPR: An Overview
CRISPR is one of the latest genetic tools that allows scientists to make changes to DNA, the molecule that carries the instructions for how living things grow and function.
