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27 Oct 2019, 11:05 am

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Stifling international regulations have been blamed for delaying the approval of a food that could have helped save millions of lives this century. The claim is made in a new investigation of the controversy surrounding the development of Golden Rice by a team of international scientists.


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27 Oct 2019, 2:45 pm

Oh, for the luvva ... :roll:

What is Flerking WRONG with those people?!



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27 Oct 2019, 3:04 pm

Wrong with the anti GM people ?



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27 Oct 2019, 3:17 pm

firemonkey wrote:
Wrong with the anti GM people ?
Same as the anti-vaxx people - Lack of knowledge and understanding of what they are against.



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28 Oct 2019, 7:35 am

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Science Writer Ed Regis has recently published a book, Golden Rice: The Imperiled Birth of a GMO Superfood, in which he tells the tragic story of golden rice. In his telling he does not come off as an ideologue, or someone who kept with an initial dramatic narrative regardless of the facts. Rather, he wished to find the truth, which is often messy and nuanced.

Golden rice is a genetically modified form of rice that is enriched with beta carotene, the precursor to vitamin A. It was developed by a non-profit humanitarian collaborative, is free of patents, and was produced with the intention of making it freely available to farmers in developing worlds. The first version of golden rice was produced in 2002, but this version had very low beta carotene levels. The latest versions, however, have sufficient levels that if current diets containing rice as the staple source of calories were switched to golden rice, it would be enough to avoid vitamin A deficiency.


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28 Oct 2019, 8:31 pm

You have to be careful about things like this as far as who the original source is that put out this information in its final form by a news outlet as "news".

About twenty years ago I was very fixated on the push for the acceptance of irradiated foods and pesticides in general. I did quite a lot of research into the two topics and found out that more often that not, when traced back, the origin of the information created were organizations, PR firms, "think tanks", etc that were supportive of or hired by said industries. In other words, the information passed off as spontaneous and impartial news was nothing more than public relations or agenda driven corporate propaganda. Our world is rife with PR and corporate propaganda. It permeates most information that we receive as seemingly impartial.



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29 Oct 2019, 9:25 am

Sure, let's be suspicious of anything new, especially when it is touted as being beneficial ... vaccines ... microwave ovens ... solar power ... the Internet ...

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10 Nov 2019, 1:00 pm

Fnord wrote:
Oh, for the luvva ... :roll:

What is Flerking WRONG with those people?!

It's so easy to say GM is dangerous when it's only third world people who are dying from vitamin A deficiency.


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