The Economist is currently running an on-line debate

Biotechnology – This house believes that biotechnology and sustainable agriculture are complimentary not contradictory.

I have just voted against the motion

Biotechnology is about the concentration of food production into a few powerful chemical companies who are more interested in selling pesticides and resistant seeds than addressing the food needs of the world.

The first problem is that our diet contains too much meat and the second problem is that we waste so much of what we produce. If we modify our diet, eat wholesome food that is well produced with more veg and less meat and above all stop waste of food then there is more than enough to feed the world.

It is indeed tragic that our current diet produces on the one hand an ever increasing obesity problem and on the other starvation.

Economist Debate at this LINK