What I think about TED "The case for engineering our food"

I would like to write about a talk of TED "The case for engineering our food" by Pamela Ronald. 

https://www.ted.com/talks/pamela_ronald_the_case_for_engineering_our_food

 Pamela Ronald is a plant geneticist. She explains about genetic modification in a clear way to understand. Many people have come to believe that there’s something bad for health and the environment. However her perspective is different.

 Her husband is an organic farmer and they have the same goal. They want to cultivate crops without further damage the environment.

 Farming is one of my hobbies. So, I also plant a variety of vegetables in my small field and have tried to practice organic farming methods. For example, this is mentioned in this speech, I don’t use chemical pesticides possibly but spray an insecticide called B.T., which is based on a bacteria. But when I come to think of it again, grafting is also one of genetic techniques and the rice that we have almost every day was developed using random mutagenesis. Therefore, farmers, even though they are called organic farmers, they use the varieties that are developed using genetic methods and Japanese people live a daily life by eating rice as our staple diet.

 In a way, what she says is true. It is easy to understand it for an amateur farmer like me. We can’t plant vegetables or we are obliged to use too much chemical pesticide without developed varieties. This means that farmers can’t provide enough crops into the market and too much insecticide destroy the environment and is bad for our health. When we come to think about it, or also experientially, even organic farming would not work without genetic modification that makes plants resistant to disease and tolerant of stress. I other words, without it, pests can probably eat all our crops in fields before we harvest.

 The environment has been changing including the global warming and human-beings have food and population issues and poverty issue. Genetic modification can be apparently useful for resolving issues. The resistant to disease and tolerant of stress or the characteristics can help us survive on the earth. As she says, it's the cheapest, safest, and most effective technology for enhancing food security and advancing sustainable agriculture. Additionally, I think that it can contribute to keeping or creating sustainable environment. Needless to say, in doing so, it's very important to talk about a specific crop and a specific product, and think about the needs of the consumer. Careful study and rigorous peer review by scientists are absolutely imperative. And also, every major scientific organization in the world needs to recognize that the crops currently on the market are safe to eat and that the process of genetic engineering is not risky.