> Some trials have been started, but people keep protesting and doing stuff like burning the fields. That's not the reason why Golden Rice has been a failure[1

> Some trials have been started, but people keep protesting and doing stuff like burning the fields. That's not the reason why Golden Rice has been a failure[1]: > While activists did destroy one Golden Rice test plot in a 2013 protest, it is unlikely that this action had any significant impact on the approval of Golden Rice. > “Destroying test plots is a dubious way to express opposition, but this was only one small plot out of many plots in multiple locations over many years,” he said. Rather: > As Stone and Glover note in the article, researchers continue to have problems developing beta carotene-enriched strains that yield as well as non-GMO strains already being grown by farmers. [1] https://source.wustl.edu/2016/06/genetically-modified-golden-rice-falls-short-lifesaving-promises/ https://source.wustl.edu/2016/06/genetically-modified-golden...