Thought for food
19 april 2009
Amidst an economic recession and worries about climate change one should not forget the fact that one billion people are chronically hungry today. A disgusting reality.
According to many food security is the greatest threat to human well-being today. While the Western population is dealing with obesitas, tens of millios of people in the world wonder how to get enough food. With the prospect of food prices going up, this problem is unlikely to just diasppear.
For that reason the dogmatic opposition of environmental organisations against genetically modified food is challenged for a good reason. Recently biologist Hidde Boersma asked “how many food riots will be needed before politicians free themselves from the environmental NGOs that have monopolised this issue?” In the Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad he concludes that investments in biotechnology are absolutely needed.
I believe this is not just an ethical necessity, but also an economic and environmental reality. It is time to get to the essence of the food issue. I can not formulate a better conclusion than that of the FT: “Food security is the greatest threat to human well-being today. It should not be lost in quibbles about the branding of Parma ham.”
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