Golden Rice

Instead of understanding that agro-ecological approaches could minimize blindness by preserving access to indigenous diets, Golden Rice has been offered as a "high-tech miracle" way to overcome this situation; the high-tech mindset tries to solve problems brought on largely by technologies through the application of more technologies of higher complexity.

Danielle Nierenberg: An Interview With Phil Bereano: The Complex Ethics of Genetic Engineering 2010

Instead of understanding that agro-ecological approaches could minimize blindness by preserving access to indigenous diets, Golden Rice has been offered as a "high-tech miracle" way to overcome this situation; the high-tech mindset tries to solve problems brought on largely by technologies through the application of more technologies of higher complexity.

Danielle Nierenberg: An Interview With Phil Bereano: The Complex Ethics of Genetic Engineering 2010

Instead of understanding that agro-ecological approaches could minimize blindness by preserving access to indigenous diets, Golden Rice has been offered as a "high-tech miracle" way to overcome this situation; the high-tech mindset tries to solve problems brought on largely by technologies through the application of more technologies of higher complexity.

Danielle Nierenberg: An Interview With Phil Bereano: The Complex Ethics of Genetic Engineering 2010

Instead of understanding that agro-ecological approaches could minimize blindness by preserving access to indigenous diets, Golden Rice has been offered as a "high-tech miracle" way to overcome this situation; the high-tech mindset tries to solve problems brought on largely by technologies through the application of more technologies of higher complexity.

Danielle Nierenberg: An Interview With Phil Bereano: The Complex Ethics of Genetic Engineering 2010

Instead of understanding that agro-ecological approaches could minimize blindness by preserving access to indigenous diets, Golden Rice has been offered as a "high-tech miracle" way to overcome this situation; the high-tech mindset tries to solve problems brought on largely by technologies through the application of more technologies of higher complexity.

Danielle Nierenberg: An Interview With Phil Bereano: The Complex Ethics of Genetic Engineering 2010

The biotech company Syngenta claims one month of a delay in marketing Golden Rice, would cause 50,000 children to go blind.

Seeds of Deception: 10-pg summary by Author Jeffrey M. Smith 2009

After extensive testing, Golden Rice couldn't live up to the hype.

Nancy Scola: The Green Revolution 2.0 2008

From lab to field, Golden Rice was found to have stepped on 70 patents held by dozens of different corporations.

Nancy Scola: The Green Revolution 2.0 2008

Opponents pegged that as a PR spin, saying Golden Rice can only provide up to 15 percent of the recommended daily consumption of vitamin A -- enough to prevent the most serious, but not all, health issues related to a deficiency.

Souped-Up Rice Goes Against Grain 2003

In my view, Golden Rice is a trap for Asian societies to become dependent on patented seeds and false promises while giving up the agricultural systems and technologies that have been based on women's knowledge and have fed people over millennia.

War And Peace On Our Farms And Tables 2000

This small change made Golden Rice into a miracle of nutrition: The rice could combat vitamin A deficiency in areas of the world where the condition is endemic and could, thereby, “save a million kids a year.”

The True Story of the Genetically Modified Superfood That Almost Saved Millions Ed Regis 2019