Fighting malnutrition with biofortified rice

1. go doctor alex!
2. A mon avis de stupide,je pense comme toute les idées nouvelles elles sont bonne pour l'humanté.L'OGM est une méthode qui existe depuis l'antiquité(exemple la patate)Le problème le plus grand est la mentalité perfide de certaine personnes qui ont le pouvoir et prennent comme un jeux négative 
3. The question of not knowing how it will evolve long-term is equally applied to conventionally-bred crops also. They have been bred by mutagenesis, hybridisation, etc and we don't know how they will evolve/change either. As for integration of various parameters of ag. A lot of people will agree with you, but why does that eliminate GM technology. GM is one of many ways to breed a crop plant. How it is grown or integrated into ag production is up to the farmer.
4. Everyone including the scientists in this project agre that eliminating poverty, war, corruption, improving infrastructure and education would be the best solution to food security - in this case iron deficiency. Alex Johnson (scientist in vid) also says that this iron-rich rice is not a silver bullet. It must be used in conjunction with the above and supplments, fortification of food products, etc. It is by no means a brute force solution, it is simply one tool to help with the problem.
5. There have been scientifics evaluation of how many peoples we can feed with organic agriculture, and we can feed everyone in the world with it (though it wouldn't be with the same diet). And I am not really sure that we can achieve a greater increase in productivity with GMOs. In this particular case, is there an other, maybe simpler way to deal with iron deficiency? GMOs are bringing like a "brute force" solution, to a problem that may be answered with another approach. Sorry for my bad english
6. I am not against GMO's, but they are a very difficult subject to treat with exhaustively. Because once you put it in your field, it is nearly impossible to know how it will evolve in the long term. Agriculture shouln't be only about growing one plant in a big field, One of the biggest challenge actually, is to integrate all of the parameters of agricultural production in the short and long term (so biodiversity is important, as it stabilize the complex system we are dealing with).
7. Checking yield is something that is mandatory (from an agronomic perspective) and pretty much standard procedure as it would not be commercially or agronomically viable otherwise, which means no-one would grow it. Jason
8. Excellent; I hope the further trials have good results. I don't think (from my somewhat limited knowledge of the mechanisms) the iron enrichment should cause decreased crop yield, but it's always good to check.
9. Sorry Ben, Jefrey Smith is hardly a reliable or reputable source. For a start effectively every claim he makes in any of his books is either wrong, a distortion of the science or cherry-picked fact without proper context. Nobody really takes him seriously. Academics Review takes apart his claims one by one and debunks them without effort the url is academicsreview-dot-org Jason, TechNyou
10. Seeds of Deception, published 2003? Ten years ago? Written by Jeffery M Smith, an activist with no scientific or medical background, and who is known for his near-hysterical criticism of biotech foods? Got any secondary sources? Or, for the win, peer reviewed papers?
11. Check out the book "Seeds of Deception" for the info. 
12. There's a book titled "Seeds of Deception". If you want to know the real info on GMO hazards. After reading the book it will be easy to comprehend the bio-terrorism that Monsanto is committing against the people of earth. GMO's will make Agent Orange look like childs play. 
13. Wow. Where's the evidence for fourth generation total sterility? Which populations are Monsanto trying to control? How do you know?
14. Hi Ben Monsanto is not part of this research. It is non-profit. Can you show me the evidence for this 4th generation sterility? In 10 years in this job I have yet to read any credible, robust evidence that shows 4th generation (or any generation) sterility. If this was occurring there would b lots of sterile livestock worldwide. In fact we probably wouldn't have any by now. Rice is self-pollinating and extremely difficult to cross even in a lab. In the field this becomes even more difficult. 
15. Indeed FUCK GMO!!!
16. If iron uptake is the only genetic modification used, then I'm OK with it. If this gets infected by something from Monsanto, then Iron will be the least of your concerns. GMO's can cause fourth generation total sterility. That's population control without warfare. Not to mention the cross species contamination the newly modified organisms will achieve on their own. Being modified to allow for easier genetic manipulation is a multi-lane path for genetic modification, genes flow both ways.
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18. fuck GMO's!
19. HYPEROATS is a Reality!
20. Good video, but where's my critical thinking season two? ;)