Norman E. Borlaug Article & Source/ Article for Paper 3 (Blog Response’s)

For the improvement of food crops Norman E. Borlaug states that technology and biotechnology are needed for the 8.3 billion people on this Earth. It’s true, technology today has helped us improve our agricultural system by being efficient from the benefits that we get from biotechnology. This will improve the food and fiber in the world we live in today (Borlaug, 487). Transgenic crops have been of the most rapid cases of technology diffusion in the history of agricultural (Borlaug, 487). So what can we expect from Biotechnology? Well it has greatly impacted medicine and public health. Technology today is helping starving people all over the world with these modified crops. Genetic engineering has improved the nutritional quality of our food crops and scientists are beginning to research furthermore in finding genes to transfer to other sorts of crops.

Many people may not realize the situation, because of these so called “antibiotechnology zealots” continue to wage their campaigns of propaganda and vandalism (Borlaug, 488). Without these technological advances, the world would be different. The positive impact of this in transferring genes into rice has increased the quantities of vitamin A, iron, and other micronutrients (Borlaug, 488). People all over the world that lack vitamin A and iron will no longer continue to suffer the causes of blindness and anemia. In the U.S. “genetically modified foods” are judged to be safe by the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration. I trust the government and how they establish their regulatory frameworks to guide testing and the use of genetically modified crops.

Biotechnology research has cost an enormous amount of money over the past few years, but scientists have benefited from these new technological breakthroughs and have helped billions of starving people. Those that are not in favor of biotechnology in the processing of crops and food need to realize that it is the benefit of feeding the human race. Technology is available for us to use and research in any ways to help the world. I believe that if we continue the well advanced researched that were doing, it will lead to a bigger accomplishment in establishing a world that no longer needs to fear famine.