WTF are you talking about? I predominantly eat brown rice.
Clearly, I was answering Tom's question about why they don't just eat unpolished rice.
WTF are you talking about? I predominantly eat brown rice.
That's bs and you are basically using the idiotic argument of those who claim atheism is based on faith. It's not faith, there is no proof that GMO's do any harm. Greenpeace and other wackos have done everything they can to stop testing of Golden Rice while promoting their "you need to continue to test this until it is found harmful or you give up" agenda (as the op article puts it). Meanwhile, they promote organic farming while ignoring any harmful effects from it.
Side effects from some meds remained unknown until a generation of children were born with birth defects.
As I said, it is too soon to tell, and yes you really are basing your comments on faith, not science, and no, it is not comparable to the atheist argument, even remotely.
Furthermore, harmful effects from organic methods? Laughable, especially to me, having been raised on an organic farm.
GMO is a tough issue, as this thread shows. If we could keep kids from dying of Vitamin A deficiency - great! But if it causes other problems? Bad!
We don't trust Monsanto, but the anti-GMO forces can be a bit overbearing as well.
We've been GMO'ing plants and animals for thousands of years. But it's been slower in the past. Now we have a lot of power; and we just don't trust people with that power.
GMO foods will end up in our food supply; we need some kind of ethical protocol around what should be done and what shouldn't be done.
Tie farmers to having to buy seed every year -many of us think that is bad.
Putting genes from plants into fish so the fish will glow - I get very nervous with that kind of transfer for no good reason. After all, the most deadly flu viruses move through pigs, chickens, and humans (to oversimplify) which makes them so bad.
Maybe we need some kind of international commission to review which GMO stuff to accept. But guess that starts the black helicopter and agenda 21 talk...
What are the problems of Golden Rice? The anti-science forces know that it might lead to greater acceptance of GMO foods and that's what they are fighting. They should be mostly ignored like the religious wackos and other deniers of science that they borrow tactics from. We should be careful not to write-off all caution as being associated with these nuts, but when all they have is vague fears and hysteria they can be easily spotted.
Many have commented on the absurdity of offering ‘golden rice’ as the cure for vitamin A deficiency when there are plenty of alternative, infinitely cheaper sources of vitamin A or pro-vitamin A, such as green vegetables and unpolished rice, which would be rich in other essential vitamins and minerals besides. To offer the poor and malnourished a high-tech ‘golden rice’ tied up in multiple patents, that has cost US$100 million to produce and may cost as much to develop, is worse than telling them to eat cake.
is there NO other way to get these people the nutrition they need?
there is the flaw in your debate
Well, the article Tom linked to says it has problems; don't know how good the source it.
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/rice.php
This paragraph seems telling
If we have ways to get Vitamin A without GMO'ing the rice and without enriching corporations - why not? We should go for the simplest solution, not just go with a complicated one for the sake of it.
Having said that, no, I am not an expert on golden rice; and this is why I wish we had an international commission that could look at these things honestly, openly, without bias.
why because you say so?
Your argument is based on faith and naturalistic fallacies.
Organic farming has drawbacks. 53 dead in just this one instance...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jun/10/e-coli-bean-sprouts-blamed
Eating sprouts was the problem, not organics. This type of tactic is beneath you Professor
Because the reputable scientists and the science says so. But I am not bothering to try to stop you from getting on the short bus with the global warming deniers, homeopathic wackos and idiots talking about cat kind.