1. In developing countries, 200-300 million children of pre-school age are at risk of vitamin A deficiency, which can be devastating and fatal.
2. By using gene-splicing techniques to introduce the two genes that express these enzymes. The pathway is restored and the pathway is restored and the rice grains accumulate therapeutic amounts of beta-carotene.
3. Intransigent opposition by anti-science, anti-technology activists Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and a few other groups-has spurred already risk-averse regulators to adopt an overly cautious approach that has stalled approvals.
4. As the British journal Nature argued in1992, a broad scientific consensus holds that “the same physical and biological laws govern the response of organisms modified by modern molecular and cellular methods and those produced by classical methods…
5. Nine years after its creation despite its vast potential to benefit humanity-and a negligible probability of harm to human health or the environment-Golden Rice remains hung up in regulatory red tape, with no end in sight.
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