Daniel Hoffmann 🌼Golden rice: why has it been banned and what happens now? #scienceWeekly
An excellent podcast episode on a sciency and politically charged news story. Golden rice is genetically modified to produce vitamin A, which could prevent blindness of children in areas relying on rice as staple food. Commercial cultivation has now been stopped by a court in the Philippines after a lawsuit supported by Greenpeace. So has Greenpeace become a baddie? The podcast takes a closer look and shows that the situation is more complicated.
Golden rice: why has it been banned and what happens now? – podcast
Ian Sample hears from the Observer science and environment editor, Robin McKie, and from Glenn Stone, a research professor of environmental science at Sweet Briar College in Virginia who is also an anthropologist who has studied golden rice, about why it has taken so long for this potentially life-saving technology to reach the fields, if it is the silver bullet so many had hoped for, and whether this ban is really the end of the story