Food security is one of the biggest challenges we face, and we must find ways in which to produce more food while continuing to reduce the impact our agricultural practices have on the environment. The developed countries have a key role to play in helping to deliver this solution; however, as widely acknowledged, the current methods of production will not be sufficient to meet the increasing demand. GM technology has done much to empower small farmers - over 90% of those who choose to use GM crops are small-scale farmers living in developing countries. They grow them because quite simply - they work ! Contributing to exactly the kind of "sustainable ...  Read the complete review

The sugar price is at a thirty year high, put down to a particularly wet South American sugar season and a dry Indian one, those two countries the biggest suppliers, India the biggest user. The price rise is around 75% up on last year, increases likely to feed through to British supermarket baskets in around three months time, that basket very sugar dependent in the affluent west. It's an oddity that the poorest people in the west are often the fattest, certainly not the case in the third world. Last year we were told by the same people that maize and wheat would reach record prices due to a 60 million ton shortfall, they say this shortage likely to continue ...  Read the complete review

Cloning was until very recently, one of the cornerstones of science fiction, both pulp and serious science fiction. Depending on your point of view, cloning falls into one of two categories - an incredible scientific advance or an abhorrent crime against nature. Okay, I know these are two extremes, but it seems to be one of those issues where people have very strong pro or anti feelings. Personally, I believe that anything has the potential to improve our understanding of life, to advance medical science by providing the opportunity to prolong or improve the quality of life should be given the resources necessary for dedicated, extensive research. ...  Read the complete review

Genetic Engineering within crops and the processes involved have come under serious scrutiny over the last several years since GM crops have become widely available. However, considering the ethics, what stance; in favour of or not, should be taken. Since the development of GM crops, issues of ethical concern have been envoked, particularly with regards to food crops within Christian groups. For example Rev. Roland Lesseps, Zambia, stated within "Church's Social Teaching and the Ethics of GMOs" in conlcusion that that "genetic modification does not meet the tests of the social teaching of the church for genuine integral development that respects ...  Read the complete review

Well I suppose this is probably going to be a tough review, the topic that's being covered here is not only sensitive, but also very powerful. The debate over what humans can and cannot do has been growing for centuries, during the 16th and 17th century, scientists were publicly humiliated, shun upon and even murdered because their belief over science outweighed the religious views of that period. We now have a period were the topic of science vs. God has created tension between many people. This review will give an analysis of the concept of human cloning, thereby introducing the concept and history of such cloning theories. I will give the main arguments for such ...  Read the complete review