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In a letter to Greenpeace, the United Nations and governments worldwide, a group of Nobel Laureates hope to put an end to Greenpeace’s campaign against genetically modified Golden Rice. The rice has the potential to eradicate or greatly diminish vitamin A deficiency (known as VAD) which affects approximately 250 million people worldwide. Read more here.
“WE CALL UPON GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD to reject Greenpeace’s campaign against Golden Rice specifically, and crops and foods improved through biotechnology in general; and to do everything in their power to oppose Greenpeace’s actions and accelerate the access of farmers to all the tools of modern biology, especially seeds improved through biotechnology. Opposition based on emotion and dogma contradicted by data must be stopped.” Excerpt.