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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (99735)3/28/2005 4:23:11 PM
From: Ish  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
<<Compared with the original golden rice unveiled in 2000, "Golden rice 2" contains up to 23 times more provitamin A, the substance converted in the body into vitamin A. This vitamin is vital for preventing childhood blindness, which affects 500,000 children worldwide each year.

The breakthrough was achieved by replacing a gene originally borrowed from daffodils, and which also has a counterpart from maize. "We found it made a dramatic difference - a 20-fold increase," says Rachel Drake, head of the team at Syngenta Seeds in Cambridge, UK, which developed the new strain.>>

That's a GMO. Better to let those kids go blind than force them to eat GMOs.
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