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Part one of a documentary about the controversial GMO - the Golden Rice A bowl of rice is the staple food for hundreds of millions of people. Without rice lots of people would starve. But, rice is deficient in some of the important vitamins, which determine the health of a person. After years of research scientists have managed to splice two vitamin-producing genes from a daffodil on to a rice plant. The so-called golden rice has created a lot of attention, because it might save thousands of children in the third world, who go blind or die, every year, from vitamin deficiency. But simultaneously, the golden rice has come under attack from the environmental movement, which, in the last few years, has expressed concern for the harm these GMOs - gene modified organisms - can do to man or the environment.
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It's a ridiculous premise. Creating a rice strain that cannot reproduce from its own seed. I mean its a good idea on paper. Use our military to force them to grow GE rice and then they have to pay Monsanto every year for new seed since the crop won't grow from its own seed. But they are poor. They don't have any money to extort. It's not going to work. We should stick to what works and just invade them and steal their natural resources face to face.
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This documentary doesn't so much explain what golden rice is or what it does as much as talk about the issues of implementing new GMOs and the difficulties that come with GMOs being patented. It doesn't even explain what the golden rice is actually made of or how it's helpful to human health in any specific manner. Very misleading title.
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The problems are that the natives didn't just eat rice, they ate leafy greens,+ other foods, feeding someone only rice would never give them vit. C either. A rounded diet is the best for humans. We started down this road by killing the small farmer, the ones that ate a variety of foods, and started thinking, just hand them a staple and be done with it. So Of Course they are unhealthy, because you can't live only on one food item. Get back to more foods, and you do away with the need of a GMO
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“Petitioning Anti-biotechnology activists who destroy field trials of Golden Rice 2 Global scientific community condemns the recent destruction of field trials of Golden Rice in the Philippines” golden rice trials in the Philippines were recently destroyed “DA to sue ‘paid residents, not farmers’ over destroyed GMO crops” looking like people were paid to destroy these crops, where will the money lead us?
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Is that ship called the qui gon jin? o_o
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