Agriculture has been around for the past 100,000 years and it has undergone vast changes in terms of its development in the way people have done things. In ancient China, the Chinese came up with many types of technologies that were not used by Europeans then such as the wheel barrow, the iron plough and many others.
The methods of agriculture was also different and more efficient compared to Europe and it is through trade and exploration that these methods were discovered.
One for example is where Europeans would scatter seeds onto the fields and grow them from there. The Chinese on the other hand, used technology to embed the seeds deep into the soil in rows for ample room to grow and away from birds.
These days, agriculture is evolving because of the mounting pressure to increase food production levels due to an increasing global population. Currently, the supply and demand are steering towards a higher demand and soon, the world's population would be too big to feed itself. The answer to such issues rests on GM food where it provides good opportunity to businesses to research and look into given the current situation.
Genetical-modification of food would basically alter the genes of the organisms and improves the crop resistance towards herbicides and pesticides. The fact that we can inject ingredients to the plants, boost the nutritional value of the food for the end consumer and of course, improves crop yield as well. However, there are rising concerns that GM food may have a negative effect on us in the long run due to the chemicals introduced into the foods.
While I feel that the above may be true, I would think that we should still accept GM as a solution for the time being and work on ways to curb global warming because this is a more pressing issue that is taking place right now and its a contributing factor to our low food productions due to things like fire which destroy the crops. Currently, the negative effects of GM food is not as severe as global warming. Hence, if we turned our focus to fight against global warming, we are alleviating our reliance on GM food or rather surpressing the need to turn to GM food totally in future. In the meantime, more research could be done to lessen the possible negative effects GM food may have on us. Perhaps by the time we do the GM food, it wont pose so much harm to us.
P.S no ratings as I didnt attend class for the day as I was sick but I was told the session for the day was easy to digest so I believe it was an an awesome session. But the readings were insightful and for that, it gets 3.5/5.
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