1. Food is Fundamental ! The right to food is the most fundamental of all human rights” Jacques Diouf 1999 Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization © 1997-2001 The Family

2. Too Many Mouths to Feed? The world population has doubled in the last 30 years. 3 babies born every second. This has lead to famine especially in developing and underdeveloped countries.

3. How do we produce food now? Use machines Faster and more effective Widely used Use more land for farms One third of the world’s land has already been used for farming Land cleared and threatened wildlife habitat

4. What about tomorrow? © 2000 - 2009 AchooAllergy.com

5. GM Food GM is a special set of technologies that alter the genetic makeup of organisms such as animals, plants or bacteria. Scientists can now alter the characteristics of food by splicing genes from a plant into a totally unrelated plant. Source: Human Genome Project

6. Lina’s Opinion “I’m Lina from Exton, Pennyslvia, USA. I believe that we should research GM food, because it has great potential to help mankind. But it is not yet perfected and should not be marketed until it’s 100 per cent safe. I’m concerned that new foods could cause allergies and other health risks. Another danger is that GM “super crops” may cross-breed and create “super weeds”, which could wipe out other native plants. The release of these GM foods could do more harm that good if they are not completely safe” Bramwall (1999)

8. References http://www.countdown.org/end/famine_99. htmhttp://www.countdown.org/end/famine_99. htm https://www.achooallergy.com/blog/genetic ally-modified-foods/Default.asphttps://www.achooallergy.com/blog/genetic ally-modified-foods/Default.asp http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Hum an_Genome/elsi/gmfood.shtmlhttp://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Hum an_Genome/elsi/gmfood.shtml