1. What makes the problem of famine in Third World countries so difficult to solve? 2. What happens to the overproduced food in wealthy countries? 3. If genetic engineering fails, what other solutions can there be to global starvation?
4. Why may genetically engineered foods be considered dangerous to humans?
5. Do you make a point of reading labels on food packages? Does it make sense?

1) Markets need to be better integrated on a local, provincial, and national level to avoid an accumulation of surpluses, which depresses prices and leads to a poverty trap for farmers.

2)Food too expensive to be purchased will rot in the warehouse. Food too unprofitable to harvest will be lost in the field. Meal servings that are twice what a person can eat will be partially discarded. A perfectly edible apple with harmless spots or a misshapen carrot might be tossed in a landfill.

3)The world's food supply is abundant, not scarce. The world's production of grain and other foods is sufficient to provide at least 4.3 pounds of food per person, per day. The real reason for hunger in the world is poverty, which often strikes women--the nutritional gatekeepers in many families--the hardest. Economists argue that resolving hunger requires political solutions and not just agro-technical solutions. According to them, instead of looking at biotechnology as a yet unproven and non-existent breakthrough, decision makers should look at the full body of research that shows that solutions to eliminate hunger are not technological in nature, but rooted in basic socio-economic realities.

4)genetic-engineering process could cause “unnatural” changes in a plant's own naturally occurring proteins or metabolic pathways and result in the unexpected production of toxins or allergens in food

5)It will help you and your family make healthy choices about the foods you are buying.

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