Will Frankenfood Feed the World?
Genetically modified crops certainly have the potential to end the misery of hunger, says Bill Gates in a special article for TIME. And they are desperately needed — after all, 800 million people in the world are undernourished and the population is expected to rise by 50 percent in the next half century. But GM crops should be introduced only after rigorous testing, and more work needs to be done to improve food distribution.
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    What was the first commercial use of genetic engineering?

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    FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition<
    Contains information on biotechnology and food

    Alliance for Bio-Integrity
    Nonprofit organization promoting genetically unaltered food

    Independent International Commission on BioTech
    A source for research and news on biotechnology and chemistry sciences from the University of Texas, at Austin