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There are currently over 786 million hungry people on planet Earth. And while few would deny that world hunger is one of the most important issues facing mankind today, if the solution is left to companies like Monsanto, Aventis, Dow, and DuPont, we may face even greater challenges to the security of our global ecosystem./nWith the second Green Revolution well under way, the world's food supply is slowly being transformed by a radically improvised agricultural paradigm. Genetically engineered crops have been introduced into the market without the rigorous testing that many scientists feel is required. The history is instructive:/nIn 1986, US biotech companies began testing the first genetically engineered food products. In 1993, the FDA declared that GM food was "not inherently dangerous", which gave a green light to biotech corporations who had been developing GM seeds.