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1. Is Genetic Engineering the Answer to
Ending Global Hunger?

2. “Every 3.6 seconds someone dies from hunger—24,000 people each day (Coleman,
2005).” About 800 people in the world are seriously undernourished (Centrone, n. d.).
Hunger is an inseparable and the most dangerous element of poverty, since starving
people die not only of hunger itself, but also of such typically nonfatal diseases as
diarrhea, flue or cold; it happens because they do not have access to necessary
medications and their health is already seriously weakened by starvation (Spoolman &
Miller, 2011). Many people in African and South American countries live in such great
poverty that their lives are filled only with the necessity of daily survival; those poor
people do not think about the future of the planet, its forests, animals or resources.
Their only problem is their present; they do not think about the future, because they
know that they may never have the future. So, in their desperate attempts to survive,
they destroy forests, kill endangered animals and cause other harmful impacts upon the
environment. Most of the time, poor families have many children, because the more
children they have the easier it is to them to cultivate vegetables and grains, keep
domestic animals and collect wood for cooking (Spoolman & Miller, 2011). Their
constantly growing population experiences even more extreme hunger and causes
further damage to the environment in their attempts to survive each day. In view of that,
prosperous people in industrialized countries have to find out ways to end global hunger
not only to save and improve lives of starving people in poor regions of the world, but

3. also to preserve the environment of the entire planet for future generations. Nowadays,
many people state that genetic engineering can end world hunger once and for all,
because its methods can help to generate super foods capable of feeding everyone;
however, it is clear that in order to eliminate hunger it is necessary to eliminate poverty.
Genetic engineering (GE) (also called genetic modification (GM)) aims to solve
the problem of world hunger by creating foods with a better nutritional value and a good
ability to resist various diseases (“Genetic Modification”, 2012). Genetic modification is
the process of creating genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) using the methods of
biotechnology (“Genetic Modification”, 2012). In order to create a GMO a scientist takes
two organisms, which normally cannot crossbreed, removes a necessary gene from one
organism and inserts it into the other, thus creating an absolutely new organism with
useful nutritional or/and pest/disease resistant characteristics (“Genetic Modification”,
2012). Breeding by means of genetic engineering is faster and more effective than
traditional breeding, because it can create absolutely unreal organisms with useful
qualities within a…