redOrbit: In a somewhat controversial statement made on Wednesday, England’s elite science academy, The Royal Society, said that world must utilize genetically modified crops in order to feed a rapidly growing global population and reduce the environmental damage of large-scale farming. The academy’s report referred to the “grand challenge” of feeding an additional 2.3 billion people by 2050–a statement corroborated by a report issued earlier this month by the UN’s Food and Agricultural …