GMOs- feeding or fooling the world

Myths and outright lies about the alleged benefits of
genetically engineered crops (GE crops or GMOs) persist
only because the multinationals that profit from them have
put so much effort into spreading them around.
They want you to believe that GMOs will feed the world;
that they are more productive; that they will eliminate the
use of agrichemicals; that they can coexist with other crops,
and that they are perfectly safe for humans and the
environment.
False in every case and in this article we'll show how easy
it is to debunk these myths. All it takes is a dispassionate,
objective look at twenty years of commercial GE planting
and the research that supposedly backs it up. The
conclusion is clear: GMOs are part of the problem, not part
of the solution.
MYTH: GE CROPS WILL END WORLD HUNGER.
FACT: GE crops have nothing to do with ending world
hunger, no matter how much GE spokespeople like to
expound on this topic. Three comments give the lie to their
claim:
FAO data clearly show that the world produces plenty of
food to feed everyone, year after year. Yet hunger is still
with us. That's because hunger is not primarily a question
of productivity but of access to arable land and resources.
Put bluntly: Hunger is caused by poverty and exclusion.
Today's commercial GE crops weren't designed to fight
hunger in the first place. They aren't even mainly for human
consumption. Practically the entire area planted to GE crops
consists of soybeans, corn, canola, and cotton. The first
three of these are used almost exclusively to make cattle
feed, car fuel, and industrial oils for the United States and
Europe, while cotton goes into clothing.
More damning, there appears to be an iniquitous cause-
and-effect relationship between GE crops and rural hunger.
In countries like Brazil and Argentina, gigantic 'green
deserts' of corn and soybeans invade peasants' land,
depriving them - or outright robbing them - of their means of
subsistence. The consequence is hunger, abject poverty,
and agrotoxin poisoning for rural people. The truth is that
GE crops are edging out food on millions of hectares of
fertile farmland.
In the year GMO seeds were first planted, 800 million people
worldwide were hungry. Today, with millions of hectares of
GMOs in production, 1 billion are hungry. When exactly do
these crops start 'feeding the world'?