Golden Rice: The Fortified, Modified and Vilified Option for Third Worl

Each year without fail anywhere between 250,000 to 500,000 children go screen door from Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD), more than half of those die within cardinal months. To visualize this number think of Seattle, now imagine half or all of its population going blind. With a few dollars worth of fodder or supplements enriched in vitamin A this problem can be mollified. yet getting fresh foods and vitamins to those with the greatest need has proven an insurmountable problem. nutrition Aid, while indeed lifesaving, is costly and does not fix the underlying problems in poor societies. To be truly se mend people must have food independence, which is to say they must be able to grow their suffer food supply and not rely on outside markets. In countries such as Vietnam, the Philippines, India and China the main food staple is sieve. fleck sift is a valuable source of carbohydrates, once the rice is milled, and its outmost layer shucked, it losses most of its nutritional value. Thirt y years ago two German scientists, Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer set out to see if they could do something about making a better rice. What they came up with was genetically limited rice that was bright yellow because it was rich in (beta)-carotene, and was called flamboyant rice because of its sunny hue. But before the two scientists could pat themselves on the plunk for for solving Vitamin A Deficiency, anti-GM (genetically modified) groups such as Greenpeace denounced the unnatural solution and swore that golden rice would never find its way to third world farmers. xx eight years and approximately 10,000,000 million deaths later golden rice has still not been able to escape the red tape and consternation mongering of the First World. And while golden rice is not a cure all for world hunger,... ...Rice to Combat Malnutrition Disorders of the Poor. Nutrition Reviews. Vol. 51. none 6. Pp. S101-S104 June. Various Authors 2010 genetically Modified Food Controversies. Wikipedia. http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_food_controversyAuthor Unknown (Editorial) 2005 Reburnishing sic Golden Rice. Nature Biotechnology. Vol. 23. No. 4. Pp. 395. AprilAuthor Unknown 2005 Scientists in Support of Agricultural Biotechnology. AgBioWorld. Agbioworld.org/declaration/ ask/petition.php