Around the world, 170 million preschool children suffer from malnutrition. Thanks to modern biotechnology, we are developing ways to improve their quality of life — and end their hunger. For example, genetically modified and enhanced iron and vitamin A content in rice can
reduce childhood anemia and blindness.

Besides fighting famine and caring for the world’s growing population, genetic crop enhancement can also help environmental groups achieve such goals as the reduction of pesticide use, groundwater pollution, and topsoil erosion.

And bioengineering enables more crops to be grown on less land, even in the harshest climates — from Africa to China.

For years, we’ve all been safely consuming genetically enhanced food ingredients, from the syrup in Coca Cola to ingredients in McDonald’s hamburger buns and french fries, Quaker Oats cereals, and Betty Crocker cake mixes.

So why is it that so many professional activist groups and special interest radicals have no appetite for genetically enhanced foods? How can they attack dramatic technological advances that could end world hunger?

They aren’t the ones going to bed hungry every night.