Key Body Demands Complete Ban on Glyphosate in India counterpunch.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from counterpunch.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In October 2020, Pesticide Action Network India and PAN Asia Pacific released the report ‘State of Glyphosate Use in India’. It concluded that the use of the world’s most widely used herbicide is rampant. Despite this, it noted that its disturbing effects on the environment and the health of farmworkers and the public are not […]
A world first: Philippines will son start eating GMO golden rice zmescience.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from zmescience.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Crispin Maslog
MANILA: Golden Rice, announced two decades ago as the answer to Vitamin A deficiency, is nowhere near production.
In 2000, a Time magazine cover announced the sprouting of “Golden Rice”, promising to enhance nutrition for millions of poverty-stricken rice-eating Asians. The magazine showed the father of Golden Rice, Swiss plant researcher Ingo Potrykus, touting it as “rice that could save a million lives a year”. (1)
A diet of Golden Rice pale yellow because of genetically embedded beta carotene from which Vitamin A is made by the human body could bring rice-eating consumers the gift of life and sight.
Golden Rice s unfulfilled promise scidev.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scidev.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.