Playing highly dangerous game by Milota Sidorova

The fact is our planet is running out of food and water, not to mention fossil fuels and another mineral resources. Human civilization has grown multiplied in unprecedented speed past century. From less than 1 billion our numbers have increased up to almost 7 billion that is expected to reach within two or three years. So how come we come across full supermarkets and in average most of us throw up to 25 percent of food without eating it. If you join together these numbers you'll find out that our supermarket and supercheap wealth is balanced by billions of people starving and dying from hunger every day. They don't live only in Africa or Asia, but they live also in our soc! iety. If we could live in balance without major technological interventions, our planet would accept only 1.4 billion of people. We have entered a technological era, but in many cases technologies have taken their tolls in form of civilization diseases. We have found out that fertilization and gene modification helps to increase cropses, but that very moment plenty of ecological and health problems appeared. Population got sick from allergies (now official researches say every second global inhabitant suffers from kind of allergy), diabetes and obesity. We rather don't mention underwater pollution, chemization of soils ending with wastelands not able to produce after decades of intensive fertizilation, etc. It is clear that we can't keep up this pace and this kind of technology progress, since it's turning back to us with catastrophic consequences. Nutrition and gene stability has been changed. Yet, we have to make difference between normal breeding that was kind of speedin! g up of natural selection and genetic modification. While bree! ding wor ks with only plant genes and combines the best features and characteristic resulting in 100 percent plant genotype, genetic modification works with both animal and plant genes. Sometimes even fungi genes are addjusted. Scientists create organisms that would never appear in nature, since animals never mixes with plants and vice versa. So we have soja that is resistant against certain insect or a dry climate, but on the other way it is not a plant, it has genes from certain bacteria -scientists can't predict the consequences, yet medical reports give some evidence – population fed by health gets down and is more sensible to allergy for instance. We have soja, rice, corn even wheat produced that way. It has been normal in U.S. and recent lobbying maneuvers have passed them in EU. Once is a fact, hunger is a great global threat and human civilization needs to find out system to fight it. But the solution has to safe and caring against people and the environment.

! related story (sgx18147): http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100827/sc_nm/us_wheat_genome...

by Milota Sidorova for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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