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Concering “World hunger is problem? – Not anymore!” posted November 1st, I’d like to add another aspect that appeared to me:

There is a fair chance of counteracting diseases that are especially common in the Third World.

Plants, which previously did not contain a particular vitamin, can now be made to produce large amounts of it. Which could be, for example, Vitamin A. It is urgently needed since approx. 500 000 children in developing countries become blind each year due to a lack of vitamin A.
Being able to modify plants and therefore leading to a higher vitamin A supply for the people without medication would also reduce costs and help the children before it’s too late.

But unfortunatley sometimes is GE out of context. GM Organisms often behave very differently when taken from the laboratory into the real-life context. So if the higher production has work within the laboratory experiments doesn’t necessarily mean it will do the same for reality. E.g. a gene for fertility was inserted into a taro plant from Hawaii…

Source: http://www.hawaiiseed.org