Gentically modified foods, good or bad?

The world population has just recently reached 6 billion people and is predicted to double in the next 50 years. Providing an adequate food supply for this 12 billion people is going to be a major problem that we are going to have to face in the generations to come. Only genetically modified foods promise to answer this problem in a number of ways. One of the first and most basic ways we are going to address this …

…are already genetically engineered to be resistant to insects, we could prevent and possibly eliminate damage to the environment because of the use of herbicides. In conclusion, genetically modified foods could solve many of the worlds hunger and malnutrition problems, and could also protect the environment by reducing the use of chemicals pesticides. Although there are also negative effects because of genetically modified foods, I believe that the positive effects will greatly out-weigh the negative.