Environmental destruction, poverty, malnutrition, depleted and poisoned soils, small farmers in abject poverty and indebtedness to Rockefeller and Big Agrochemicals.
Heaven deliver us from corporations who feel entitled to pick and choose between the multitude of rice genes! I see you did not mention Gates' push for "yellow rice" presumably thinking that it would alleviate some nutritional lack. I have prayed ever since that was announced that it failed completely.
Apparently the so-called green revolution did address over-population: by starvation.
I pray many people have learned from this lesson: unintended consequences are inevitable. Especially when a large for-profit corporation is providing "solutions". I am sure it is heppening in America.
Hiya, "Golden Rice' is mentioned in the fancy agrochemical ad/article in the National geographic link. It apparently has the gene from corn which produces beta-carotene, to combat the global 'scourge of vitamin A deficiency' (which is news to me) but was trampled on by anti GM activists.
Thank you. OMG I don't think anything they said was true. Vitamin A deficiency responsible for millions of deaths?? more than spinach! I didn't know there was any in spinach. What about eating carrots, fairly easy to grow? Yes and very good point about over dose. If rice is all these people are eating -sounds like an accident waiting to happen. The body naturally is adapted to local foods and has it's own regulations! Making government regulation the bad guy sounds like creating a demand, just about anything gets passed regulation -so must have been something really wrong with it.
Thank you for the information on Golden Rice! I thought it to be helpful. I had no idea that it was crossed with corn. I hate to use WHO for info on vision impairment/blindness info, but they don’t even list vitamin A deficiency as a cause of blindness. This is just another example of corporate lies used to manipulate us! https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/blindness-and-visual-impairment
Yes, yes, yes. It's not just disease mongering in humans-eg levels of cholesterol or normal childhood behaviour being defined as sickness. Now food in its natural state is not good enough and must be made better for conditions that don't exist
The consistent net result of Big Ag programs is that the environment is trashed, people die and they enrich themselves. It's almost as if a pattern was emerging.
Heaven deliver us from corporations who feel entitled to pick and choose between the multitude of rice genes! I see you did not mention Gates' push for "yellow rice" presumably thinking that it would alleviate some nutritional lack. I have prayed ever since that was announced that it failed completely.
Apparently the so-called green revolution did address over-population: by starvation.
I pray many people have learned from this lesson: unintended consequences are inevitable. Especially when a large for-profit corporation is providing "solutions". I am sure it is heppening in America.
Thank you for addressing this horror.
Hiya, "Golden Rice' is mentioned in the fancy agrochemical ad/article in the National geographic link. It apparently has the gene from corn which produces beta-carotene, to combat the global 'scourge of vitamin A deficiency' (which is news to me) but was trampled on by anti GM activists.
Golden Rice is some bad news, totally GMO and glyphosate dependant. https://organicconsumers.org/why-we-oppose-golden-rice/
Here is the propaganda behind golden rice and it says the gene was “inserted” into rice to change it into a grain that has higher vitamin A than spinach! Wonder what health problems could arise from too much vitamin A since it is a fat soluble vitamin where overdose is theoretically possible? https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/17/golden-rice-genetically-modified-superfood-almost-saved-millions/
Thank you. OMG I don't think anything they said was true. Vitamin A deficiency responsible for millions of deaths?? more than spinach! I didn't know there was any in spinach. What about eating carrots, fairly easy to grow? Yes and very good point about over dose. If rice is all these people are eating -sounds like an accident waiting to happen. The body naturally is adapted to local foods and has it's own regulations! Making government regulation the bad guy sounds like creating a demand, just about anything gets passed regulation -so must have been something really wrong with it.
Thank you for the information on Golden Rice! I thought it to be helpful. I had no idea that it was crossed with corn. I hate to use WHO for info on vision impairment/blindness info, but they don’t even list vitamin A deficiency as a cause of blindness. This is just another example of corporate lies used to manipulate us! https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/blindness-and-visual-impairment
Yes, yes, yes. It's not just disease mongering in humans-eg levels of cholesterol or normal childhood behaviour being defined as sickness. Now food in its natural state is not good enough and must be made better for conditions that don't exist
https://organicconsumers.org/why-we-oppose-golden-rice/ bad stuff GMO and glyphosate dependant
The consistent net result of Big Ag programs is that the environment is trashed, people die and they enrich themselves. It's almost as if a pattern was emerging.