The argument about it being 'western GM scares keeping the starving hungry' is very potent. It is also a complete lie.

Arable land in poorer countries has been ruined by monoculture cash crops (usually to supply the west). Chemical farming is simply not as productive per acre as small-scale organic methods (it's just that those methods take more time and effort).

Chemical farming not only ruins soil quality, but the raw materials for the chemicals are largely oil and gas. When these become scrace and very expensive - as will happen well within our lifetimes - it will be the poor farmers who will suffer first.

If we want people to be able to feed themselves in an ongoing way then we need to promote sustainable methods; methods the farmers can afford, methods that do not ruin the topsoil for future genrations.

This means weaning off chemical farming, rather than promoting its saturation with GM, and replacing it with small-scale organic methods.

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For more on Why GM Won;t Feed The World, see;
http://www.headheritage.co.uk/uknow/features/index.php?id=17

what is wrong with some in the west is a knee-jerk anti-science attitude that seems most evident in the anti GM people's paranoid frankenstein scenarios.

Everyone on this board has been eating genetically modified foods for their entire lives.