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In reply to the discussion: Defending GMOs on grounds that they are not poisonous is like defending manufacturers who exploit [View all]Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)both supposed to solve the same problem in different parts of the world by replacing the staple crops in those regions to stop blindness and death from Vitamin A deficiency. They can't all eat carrots, nor can they all take vitamins, not practical and at best you get 70 percent coverage.
Then Greenpeace came in and literally destroyed test crops of Golden Rice and calls it poison, its a travesty. And protestors were protesting the testing of the plantains(bananas) in an American University, they were clinically testing for Vitamin A absorption in the blood from the consumption of the bananas.
Then there are anti-GMO advocates who are crowing and applauding the failure of Golden Rice(which hasn't failed yet). How unethical is that?
We should be working on workable solutions, regardless of source, for the world's nutritional problems.