Golden Rice Can End World Hunger Analysis

In Reinhard Renneberg’s article, “Golden rice can end world hunger,” he explains his ideas on the highly controversial topic of GMO Golden Rice. He begins the article by introducing the problem: 250 million children are suffering from provitamin A deficiency, which is important for resistance against infectious diseases. Renneberg’s solution is to use Golden Rice that is genetically modified containing maize DNA, which has provitamin A. He believes this to be a strong solution because rice is a key food in the diets of two billion people worldwide. He later mentions the opposition of his argument when he states, “ their objection wasn’t to the addition of provitamin A, but to the use of gene transfer.” He says that because the DNA is from another vegetable and transfers like these can happen in nature, that this is not harmful. Renneberg concludes his article by pushing the use of GMOs in food to end world hunger and says that this is the future. Renneberg has strong ideas and rhetoric in his article, “Golden Rice can end world hunger,” although I think he falls short when explaining his reasoning on why people, other than those whom are directly affected, will support Golden Rice. I agree with Renneberg when he says that …show more content…
His ethos in the argument does a great job at persuasion. He says that he wants the GMO Golden Rice to help save 250 million kids worldwide from malnutrition. This sounds like a noble deed to accomplish for the world. His pathos that he uses helps further his point by making the audience pity the kids with “hidden hunger.” When using logos he uses statistics and direct quotes from other professionals. He needs to provide more details on how to incentivize companies. One of the underlying assumptions this article is based off of is that there will be no negative side effects from the introduction of the new rice because could have many unforeseen problems for the ecosystems it is planted