Genetically engineered foods of the wave of the future, whether
people like it or not.
This is Douglas McIntyre, editor in chief at Climate Crisis
247, coming to you from New York City.
Genetically engineered seeds, which produce genetically engineered foods, have been
around for several decades.
Scientists have been concerned that they are bad for human
health, but at this point people don't have a choice.
These seeds are made so that they can grow food
in drought or flood conditions and what the climate as
it is right now, they're the only place that farmers
can turn.
Normal seeds don't work in most areas of the world
anymore.
This is a good example of what climate change does.
It causes a trade off.
Either people can eat foods that are genetically engineered or
they can go without food altogether.
So keep an eye on this, particularly in areas like
Africa, you'll see shipments of these seeds by the hundreds
of thousands because it's the only way they can grow
food at all in parts of the drought stricken places
around Somalia.
So whether people like it or not, they're going to
be eating genetically engineered foods maybe for the rest of
the century.