Norman E. Borlaug Article

Biotechnology and the process of genetically altering the food we eat in order to create higher yields of food and to rid the food we eat of diseases is the dream Norman Borlaug worked towards throughout his long-lived career. The question I have is: Is using such technology and man-made feats something we desire to have present in the food that we consume? I feel that the effect man has had on the food he eats may in turn be the demise of our species as we know it. The control human-kind has desired to have over nature throughout the past few centuries may not be as beneficial as everyone says it is. For the millions of years that life has existed on earth, living things have had to fight, work, and suffer for the nourishment they received. Natural selection has, over time, produced the species living today. By using such technology to feed everyone and everything we are bypassing nature and its rules for life completely. Feeding the world through the process of biotechnology will effectively over-populate the earth, which will lead to the over-use of natural resources, which will eventually exhaust the Earth entirely. I am not advocating that humans should not feed others or make sure no one starves, but I do feel that if we continue in this technological direction we are moving towards, nature will eventually fight back in a tremendous way.