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> No, the idea is to taint anti-GMO activists with the accusation that they're killing third world children 670,000 kids a year die from vitamin A deficiency (
by Turing_Machine 8y ago
> No, the idea is to taint anti-GMO activists with the accusation that they're killing third world children
670,000 kids a year die from vitamin A deficiency (and, of course, many more than that "only" go blind). Golden rice has been around for 18 years now, but "activists" have prevented its widespread use.
That's 12 million preventable deaths.
- sjburt 8y agoIs there a reason they need to get their vitamin A from rice, a crop that demands precise cultivation practices, and not cheaper and more convenient vitamin pills?
- Fins 8y agoPeople in those areas have been growing rice precisely enough for centuries. It is their main food; they will consume rice either way. Acquiring and distributing vitamin pills would be more difficult. If it were so easy, why none of the anti-GMO fanatics do so already? But of course that would involve doing something useful, not strutting around in the same crowd as anti-vaxxers and flatearthers.
- EliRivers 8y agomore convenient vitamin pills? In the context at hand, rice is more convenient.
- Turing_Machine 8y agoBecause they already eat rice, and vitamin pills are far from "cheaper and more convenient" if you're living in a third world village.