ABSTRACT
Subramanya Bharati, a great Tamil poet, wrote decades ago that nutrition and education were the two legs of a human being — nutrition for the body and education for the mind. With the growing power of human beings in the fields of genetic modification and nano technology, there is need for greater attention to bioethics. There are many ethical considerations in medical biotechnology, including the area of reproductive cloning. 2010-2020 has been declared as the Decade of Innovation. The Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, has expressed the hope that India will become an Innovation Superpower by 2030. Food and drinking water are the first among the hierarchical needs of a human being. Food security at the level of each individual child, woman and man is hence the first requirement for a healthy and productive life.
