Professor argues that people will starve to death because of anti-GM zealotry

In 1968 Paul Ehrlich wrote in his book The Population Bomb that “mass starvation” due to “burgeoning population growth” was inevitable. “It is now too late to take action” to avoid hundreds of millions of deaths in developing countries, he declared, more than 40 years ago. Nothing could be done to stop all those people dying from hunger, because there were simply too many mouths to feed. It was already game over.

View the original article here: People will starve to death because of anti-GM zealotry – Daily Telegraph

Related on the SLP

Viewpoint: Raw milk and the myth of safety—ProPublica exposes the growing anti-homogenization movement University study: Cataloguing the negative impact of agricututral pesticides on insects and animals—and what should be done

As Europe inches forward in its embrace of gene-edited crops, hopes abound that opposition to GMOs might fade

Drugs and supplements can extend life and five other longevity myths

World Health Organization calls Kennedy- and CDC-backed Guinea-Bissau hepatitis B vaccine study designed to ‘prove’ the danger of vaccines “unethical”