It is more than apparent that an era of GMOs is imminent. Nowadays GMO’s being present in almost every aisle of your food supermarket, whether in the form of the apples you got or the corn feed “insert meat of your choice”, even the coke cans have a GMO in the form of the corn syrup additive found in it as corn is one of if not the face everyone will think of when the name “GMO’s” is mentioned to them. Noticing that corn is being mentioned quite often in a post title about “the future of GMO’s”? well there’s a reason for this, and it’s because corn is a prime example of what we can expect of GMO crops in the future with 88% of corn now being a GMO. A trend that will only become more common as we go into the future with 94% of soybeans and 95% of sugar beets already being a GMO.
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But how else can we see predict what the future will look like for GMO’s in other countries? An example that we can look to is Bangladesh in 2013 where the constant crop yields were often lacking due to the crop being lost to pests, and with the practice of using pesticides, it showed to rapidly become expensive and would often cause farmers to become sick. All these troubles would then become solved when they introduced a genetically modified version of the eggplant that was resistant to insects and causing the countries use of insecticide to drop by more than 80%, caused the income from the harvest to increase dramatically, and the health of the farmers improve. Giving a clear image of how GMO’s will in time take the same steps as Bangladesh and accept the many benefits that GMO’s have to offer. Statistics also point at the presence of GMO’s becoming more and more common as it is predicted that by 2050 the need for food will have increased by 70% in order to feed everyone adequately, as well as a need for improved pharmaceutical produce and just one way this could be is within the highly valued horseshoe crab blood and it’s used to detecting bacterial endotoxins. Since the horseshoe crab is only able to make little amounts of blood but a promising implementation of GMO’s in the future is trying to engineer an organism to have the capability of producing the crab’s blood but in larger amounts.
