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Golden Rice finally released in Bangladesh! Planting 2 months away, Golden grains packed with lifesaving proVA should be in the markets later this year! Anti-GMO now be like “Oh no – a GMO is about to actually help people. We must stop this “at all costs.” theness.com/neurologicablo…
Golden rice is not about using chemicals, not patented, no big corporation is benefiting, the seeds are given freely to poor farmers, only goal is to improve nutrition for poor people, esp children, and to reduce their health burden. What more could you ask for? - @stevennovella
The actual situation so thoroughly flies in the face of all the anti-GMO lies and distortions that it causes them to panic. The anti-golden rice propaganda machine is going into full steam. Hopefully, however, reality has too much momentum to stop them - @stevennovella
Half-million vitamin A-deficient children become blind every year, half of them dying within 12 Months...yet, anti-GMO activists are panicking. They cannot allow GMOs as a category to have a perceived “win.” ..How dare GMO proponents save starving poor children!! -@stevennovella
Largely fueled by well-fed Westerners & organic food lobby, they create fake grassroots movement against GMOs. They lie outright to poor farmers, getting them to organize against GMOs, then point to the fake fear & outrage as evidence they were right...then lie about the results
Anti-GMO propaganda is virtually identical to anti-vaccine propaganda. Antivaxxers claim not only that vaccines have not demonstrated safety (they have) but they don’t work (they do). Similarly, anti-GMO activists lie about the evidence for vitamin A content & availability of GR
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