Skewed Ethics on Biotechnology-Shoots from the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii – Jan. 17, 2005

Tsunami survivors and millions of others could benefit from a marvel of modern science: golden rice. By adding two daffodil genes to common rice, researchers made it rich in beta-carotene, which humans can convert to vitamin A.

This miracle rice could help reduce widespread Vitamin A deficiency that causes up to 500,000 children to go blind every year — and 2,000,000 a year to die from diseases they would likely survive if they weren

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