Twitter Survey Shows 71% of Votes Say GMOs Needed to Feed World Population
April 19, 2017| |
An on-going survey being conducted on Twitter by the Singularity Hub revealed that 71 percent of the respondents believe that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are needed to feed the world population of 9.7 billion by 2050. Twenty-three (23) percent of the respondents, 1,338 in total as of writing, believe that there is a need to know more, while only 6 percent think that GMOs are too dangerous or unsafe.
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For more, read their article The Future of Food: To GMO or Not To GMO?, or visit Singularity Hub.
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