Although GMOs are seen as acts against God and are inhumane due to mutations in plants, genetically modified organisms are the solution to ending world hunger and to food shortages because GMOs can be created to grow healthier plants that can be used to feed third world countries and GMOs can be grown to be more weather resistant which will allow us to grow food in any place on earth, increasing the amount of food for everyone. Genetic engineering is defined as a direct manipulation of the genetic code within a living organism. In the early 1970s, scientists were able to directly modify and recombine the DNA of a simian virus called SV40 and parts of a lambda virus. In the following years, further progress followed, an increase in the number of scientists and achievements in the field of genetic engineering. One of the recurring topics that has plagued the community ever since the first GMO was used in the environment has been whether it is right to manipulate life. Today's questions are still the subject of much debate. One of the biggest weapons used against this phenomenon is that GMOs can lead to mutations and unknown side effects when eaten, however studies conducted have shown that there is no effect when eaten. One of the many potentials that GMOs are expected to achieve in the coming years is the ability to grow food in difficult and unsuitable conditions. In China, for example, half of the cotton grown in 2002 was genetically modified to produce a substance poisonous to the cotton bollworm, a pest that devastates many cotton crops. By modifying genes to create this type of pesticide, it was able to defend itself from its deadly predators. This would dramatically improve cotton crop numbers in the next few years to... middle of paper... instead, GMOs would be able to survive that drought allowing farmers to keep their growers and allowing the United States to thrive in a new agricultural era. As beneficial as GMO crops may be considered, however there will always be opposition towards it from extreme environmentalists, some environmentalists have even started to consider GMOs as an act against God. Their claims have always been against GMOs, stating that GMOs can drastically change the natural ecosystem or that GMOs are just a way for scientists to play God. As incriminating as these claims may seem, the scientific community has always responded with well-founded information. There have been reasonable explanations for each of these claims, for example the argument that GMOs can change the ecosystem is absurd for the following reasons, GMOs have only been planted in agricultural farmers and never in the wild and if a GMO