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Genetic engineering
A VERY dispiriting recent news
item was the report that this
country wastes £10bn worth of food
annually. This in a world where
children are starving. Just how
remote from reality can you get?
The reality here is both moral and
ecological. Morally, it is absolutely
unacceptable that rich countries,
and rich classes in the poor
countries, get far more than their
fair share of the world's food supply.
Ecologically, it needs recognising
that existing systems are
intrinsically incapable of
adequately sustaining the present
world population, let alone the
additional two billion there will be
by 2025.
The situation needs a basic
rethink. One possibility is genetic
engineering. This, though radical, is
just a highly sophisticated form of
what plant and stock breeders have
always done.
Nothing reprehensible about that
and it offers the prospect of
dramatically increased yields. If we
accept this, and other
unconventional possibilities, the
situation need not be hopeless.
Tony Kelly, Crook, Co Durham.
9:57am Thursday 15th May 2008
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