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Article: FOOD FIGHT TOO MUCH EMOTION AND TOO LITTLE SCIENCE DOMINATES REACTION TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS.(Commentary / Editorial)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- July 21, 2001
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Byline: James Quick
In a perfect world, food would be plentiful for all. Weather conditions would ensure lush crops, lack of insects, diseases or weeds to compete with them, enough rain for moisture and enough sun for growing tall. In a perfect world, no one would go hungry. But as we know, it is not a perfect world. Famine, overpopulation, weather disasters and hordes of insects exist to challenge farmers who grow the food we all depend on to live.
For centuries, man has been tinkering with nature to enhance, change, mutate or genetically alter its characteristics to bring better quality and higher yields to crops for food. Called traditional breeding, ...