Topic: 2024-GMOs and Food Security
Country: Switzerland
Delegate Name: Joshua Opherk
As the global population of the world skyrocketed following the industrial revolution, the ever-present issue of food insecurity grew ever higher. As an expanding world fought to meet the demand, genetically modified organisms (GMO’s) became a simple, easy, and cheap solution to the problems of the day. Despite this, it is the firm opinion of the Swiss delegation that GMO’s are a growing and pressing public health crisis that must face immediate international regulation in order to control.
GMO’s use the artificial tampering of organisms to produce food stuffs that are more practical for mass production, harvesting, and distribution. Although seemingly helpful, under the surface a dark truth lies. GMO’s are often used by corporations and other private entities to cut corners and reduce the time and effort necessary to produce items. As the power of these individual groups like fast food, fruit, vegetable, and dairy companies grows further, these organizations become ever more unlikely to take independent action to limit their usage of GMO technology. This is why it is so crucial that international intervention takes place in order to limit the expansion and further use of this practice.
One of the key reasons that GMO’s have such a space to grow is the rising crisis of food insecurity across the world. Famines in underdeveloped countries and rising prices of food all play a detrimental role in the growing calamity, which is why initiatives must be taken immediately to put checks on the large corporations and reduce prices and increase the availability of food. It is the hope of the Swiss delegation that through proactive and productive debate, this crisis can be solved definitively and resolutely.
