World hunger is accredited to be one of the direst problems facing humankind today. Up in ranking with, the climate change, the sporadic global economy, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and cyber governance. All appear to be trivial problems which the Nobel Peace Prize was created for especially. World hunger proves to be the biggest issue of them all, causing the death of millions worldwide, and a surefire problem nowhere in sight. This leaves me with the question, how would I go about ending world hunger?
The first step one would take in their quest to end world hunger would be to define the problem, which is in this case, people are going hungry. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, one of the definitions of hunger is “the want or scarcity of food in a country.” World hunger is …show more content…
Biotechnology is one of tomorrow’s tools in our hands today. Slowing its acceptance is a luxury our hungry world cannot afford. Genetic engineering is the process of manually adding new DNA to an organism. The goal is to add one or more new traits that are not already found in that organism. One example would be engineering plants so crops can act as natural pesticides to some plants. The main idea behind this concept is that a DNA strand is composed of small segments called Genes. Each Gene holds instructions for how to produce a single protein, which is what creates our cell, regulates our cell, and controls what reacts in our cells. Once one changes the DNA, almost anything can happen.
Although this technology is powerful, it has not yet been used properly. Even if it has yet to reach its full potential, genetic engineering is a solution that has much more potential of solving world hunger than any other options, and it attacks the pain problem, not going around the problem to find solutions such as birth control or
The first step one would take in their quest to end world hunger would be to define the problem, which is in this case, people are going hungry. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, one of the definitions of hunger is “the want or scarcity of food in a country.” World hunger is …show more content…
Biotechnology is one of tomorrow’s tools in our hands today. Slowing its acceptance is a luxury our hungry world cannot afford. Genetic engineering is the process of manually adding new DNA to an organism. The goal is to add one or more new traits that are not already found in that organism. One example would be engineering plants so crops can act as natural pesticides to some plants. The main idea behind this concept is that a DNA strand is composed of small segments called Genes. Each Gene holds instructions for how to produce a single protein, which is what creates our cell, regulates our cell, and controls what reacts in our cells. Once one changes the DNA, almost anything can happen.
Although this technology is powerful, it has not yet been used properly. Even if it has yet to reach its full potential, genetic engineering is a solution that has much more potential of solving world hunger than any other options, and it attacks the pain problem, not going around the problem to find solutions such as birth control or