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Technology Won't Feed the World's Hungry

Currently Low-risk

  • Tomatoes
  • Potatoes
  • Salmon
  • Pigs

High-risk Crops

  • Alfalfa
  • Canola
  • Corn
  • Cotton
  • Papaya
  • Soy
  • Sugar Beets
  • Zucchini
  • Yellow Summer Squash

Environmental Effects

  • Increased use of toxic herbicides
  • Cross-pollination
  • "super weeds" and "super bugs"

World Hunger

GMO

  • Genetically modified organisms
  • 80% of processed food in US

Health Risks

  • Immune problems
  • Accelerated aging
  • Insulin deregulation
  • Infertility
  • Other changes in major organs and gastrointestinal system

Anuradha Mittal

  • Born in India
  • Founder and executive director of the Oakland Institute
  • Several areas of expertise
  • Most Valuable Thinker
  • Writer and editor
  • Nonprofit organizations
  • Ben & Jerry's

America's Vote

  • 91% want GMO products labeled
  • 53% would not knowingly buy GMO products

Effect on Farmers

  • Pressured to switch to GMO crops

Patents on GMOs

Cross-pollination

Sue farmers

Motivation

  • Out of 800 million hungry in world, 200 million are in India

Main Points

  • GMOs are not the solution to Third World hunger
  • Actually excess food in India in 2000
  • organizations like IMF keep food from needy

"It's appalling that even today the debate in developed countries offers the Third World the option of either dying or eating unsafe foods."

Anuradha Mittal

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