Norman Borlaug Article

I found the article “Ending World Hunger. The Promise of Biotechnology and the Threat of Antiscience Zealotry” by Norman E. Borlaug to be full of many intriguing concepts. I find the whole idea of genetically modifying foods to be fascinating. Creating hybrid crops has the potential to make the nutritional qualities in food greater (such as raising the protein level in corn), eliminate the need for harmful pesticides, and grow mass quantities of crops that can withstand the extreme heat and cold in summer and winter. Although I initially found the concept of genetically modifying plants to be unsafe and impure, as I read on I found out that mother nature has been creating hybrid plants for years, farmers are only helping the process along that has been around since the beginning of time.
I found the most intriguing, and most controversial, part of this article to be the fact that genetically modified crops could be used to help those countries struggling with starvation. Although some argue the countries will disapprove of the genetically modified food, it seems like it is a perfectly safe and genius idea to put a damper on world hunger. And unlike those countries wealthy enough to be picky about their food, a third-world country would be happy to have any food at all. Therefore, I agree with Borlaug that the technology used to genetically modify foods should continue to be developed and expanded.