Can Biotech Food Cure World Hunger?

Carla Gottgens/BloombergA crop of genetically modified canola grows in a field in Lake Bolac, in the Western District of Victoria, Australia, Sept. 29, 2009. With food prices remaining high in developing countries, the United Nations estimates that the number of hungry people around the world could increase by 100 million in 2009 and pass the one billion mark. A summit of world leaders in Rome scheduled for November will set an agenda for ways to reduce hunger and increase investment in agricult

Sugar beets spur county to reconsider biotech food

CATHERINE TSAI Associated Press Writer= BOULDER, Colo. (AP) â?? Six Colorado farmers’ request to grow genetically modified sugar beets on public land in Boulder County has sparked a debate that could bar any genetically altered crops from county land. The farmers want to grow Roundup Ready sugar beets. They’re bred to resist the weed killer Roundup. The county already allows genetically altered corn, but fresh complaints from residents and organic food activists have prompted county commissioner

Film aims to expose dangers in U.S. food industry

Christine Kearney, Reuters 9 Jun 09; NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bigger-breasted chickens fattened artificially. New strains of deadly E. coli bacteria. A food supply controlled by a handful of corporations. The documentary "Food, Inc." opens in the United States on Friday and portrays these purported dangers and changes in the U.S. food industry, asserting harmful effects on public health, the environment, and worker and animal rights. Big corporations such as biotech food producer Monsanto Co.,