By the Stop Golden Rice Network (SGRN) (Released today in commemoration of the International Day of Protest Against Golden Rice, now in its 7th year) The push for corporate-led solutions to hunger and malnutrition is …
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GMO Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits Says FDA
by Allison Wilson, PhD and Jonathan Latham, PhD The biotech industry and its supporters have promoted GMO Golden Rice for decades as an urgently needed solution to vitamin A deficiency. But, in a surprising twist, …
Continue readingGoodbye to Golden Rice? GM Trait Leads to Drastic Yield Loss and “Metabolic Meltdown”
by Allison Wilson, PhD. GMO Golden Rice is promoted as a potent tool to alleviate vitamin A deficiency. However, Indian researchers now report that the genes needed to produce it have unintended effects. When they …
Continue readingMillions Spent, No One Served: Who Is to Blame for the Failure of GMO Golden Rice?
by Angelika Hilbeck and Hans Herren The recent Nobel laureates’ letter accusing Greenpeace of a “crime against humanity” for opposing genetically modified (GMO) golden rice reveals a deep division not only between civil societies and …
Continue readingDon’t Eat the Yellow Rice: The Danger of Deploying Vitamin A Golden Rice
by Ted Greiner, PhD What better way to discredit your critics than to rope in 107 naive Nobel Prize winners (all without relevant expertise) to criticize your opposition? But such tactics are not new. Long …
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