Norman Borlaug

In the article, “Ending World Hunger: The Promise of Biotechnology and the Threat of Antiscience Zealotry", Norman E. Borlaug discusses his work with GMOs (genetically modified organisms), their effects on societies, and how they might negatively affect the environment. One great point that Borlaug speaks about is how people believe that GMOs are worse for us than organic foods, but this is not entirely true. Organic food or even traditionally raised farm products still carry some risk. If we went back to the original way of agriculture, we would have even more severe hunger issues, not only in our own lands, but also in the lesser fortunate countries.
People tend to forget that just because they have food to place on the table every night does not mean that this is the case for everyone around the world. Even in our own country, there are citizens who starve daily, living on little money, earning low wages and to top it all off, not eating nutritionally at all. There is a reason why Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in this field: his work has saved millions of lives in both our own country and those countries around the world.