Five reasons why you should love GMOs

3) GMOs can help end world hunger

GMOs protect our planet and they also allow us to feed more people with less resources. A 2015 study found that crop yields are not growing fast enough for human demand. As mentioned above, GMOs can help combat this problem by increasing crop yields by 22 percent. GMOs won’t solve world hunger alone, but they prevent many people from starving to death. Why would anyone be against that?

GMOs can also give nutrients to people who are unable to obtain such nutrients. One of the best examples of this is seen with Golden Rice. As the Boston Globe reports:

Golden rice was developed as a strictly humanitarian gesture to alleviate the suffering of some 250 million children with vitamin A deficiency — the leading cause of preventable blindness and immunodeficiency — and including up to 2 million who die from it. Golden rice is fertile, meaning it can be grown and the seeds used for next year’s crop, and it carries no licensing fees for smallhold farmers

What a wonderful thing!