if you can increase the amount of food

满足全球人口粮食需求的话
available to the population,

当然是福
but there are concerns with it as well,

但对其食品安全尚有争议
and I'm going to talk about some of those today.

接下来我将说说其中一些
This is a graphic from the U.S. Department of Agriculture

这是来自美国农业部的一份图表
showing the increase in the United States, or worldwide increase

该图显示了美国应该说全球
rather of genetically modified foods going through 1999.

96年到99年转基因食品的增长趋势
Now, it's interesting where in the world these things are grown.

有趣的是这些食品在全球的种植区域分布
These are the top ten countries

这些是种植转基因作物
that grow genetically modified food

数量排名前十的国家
and I'm going to show the--not the first number one,

大家看下除第一外的
but all the other nine.

其他九个国家