Golden Rice was a cudgel used to beat up on genetic engineering opponents, a way to portray us as heartless enemies of poor children,

Now it appears that Golden Rice was nothing more than a shameful work of industry propaganda.--Tom Mathews


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Goodbye to Golden Rice? GM Trait Leads to Drastic Yield Loss and "Metabolic Meltdown"

Independent News
by Allison Wilson, PhD
10/25/2017

Synopsis: For nearly 20 years, GMO Golden Rice has been promoted as a potent tool to alleviate vitamin A deficiency. Golden Rice has never been commercialised, however, and its failure to reach the market has been blamed on “over-regulation” and on “anti-GMO” opposition. Recent research by Indian scientists shows that introducing Golden Rice transgenes had unexpected detrimental effects. Their high yielding and agronomically superior Indian rice variety became pale and stunted, with yields so reduced it was unsuitable for cultivation (Bollinedi et al. 2017). This research has obvious implications for Golden Rice, particularly by suggesting that nutritionally useful GMO Golden Rice may be an impossibility. As Dr Wilson explains, it also throws a substantial shadow over the general feasibility of nutritional enhancement by GMO technology.
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