Tag: International Rice Research Institute

  • Golden Rice: Spending Millions to Reinvent the Wheel

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    Beth Hoffman’s article in Forbes mirrors my sentiments exactly.  In response to a commenter, she asks: The question is – after 30 years of research, how much has actually been spent creating a product like Golden Rice? How many billions of vitamin A supplements could have been purchased and passed out already – saving the…

  • Activist Farmers in Philippines Destroy Golden Rice Crops

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    Asingh at the Asian Pacific Post reports on a group of activist farmers in the Philippines who stormed a government research facility and destroyed an area of genetically modified rice crops the size of 10 football fields. According to New Scientist, the farmers say that genetically modified organism (GMO) foods have not been established to…