Norman Borlaug's Article

In the article that we were given, Norman Borlaug talks about the controversy involving food and biotechnology. This topic is a big issue today and there are two main points to it. The side that is for it argues that creating biotechnology into the countries food system will give the world enough food to keep the population that has a non-stop growing rate alive. Other arguments they have is that biotechnology helps in the medical world with breakthroughs for health issues. Scientists believe it is a good thing because they have hopes for using it to increase farming techniques and things such as fertlizer and seeds to make them grow in a more effiecient way. This all can lead to less starvation around the world.
The people that argue that this biotechnology is not such a good thing believe that food was meant to not be messed with, you will find that most of these people would be organic or raw food eaters. Like in Omnivore's Dilemma we learned that messing with the orgininal make up of our food is not only unethical but unhealthy and wrong. It can in the end hurt our bodies most think. Some argue that since this is a relative new thing we do not know the long term side affects which makes people believe that it is something that can eventually kill people who eat it. Not like they know this for sure but biotechnology could go either way with the good and the bad.