Every year the population increases on average 1.1% which doesn’t seem like a significant amount but imagine in the long run. What will happen in one hundred years or fifty or ten? Will society eventually run out of food? Will society have to become one of those futuristic societies we see in movies, books and television were the population is restricted and food is limited? No the world will not have to resort to the limitation of the amount of children or food because of genetic modification. Genetic modification can be used to alter the plants so they can produce more food. According to Gary Brester, a retired Montana State University economist, once sugar beets were genetically modified to resist “Roundup,” a herbicide glyphosate, the crop
