<story><title>Block on GM rice ‘has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness’</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/26/gm-golden-rice-delay-cost-millions-of-lives-child-blindness</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tjawirklich</author><text>For all the promises mentioned around this crop, this was surprising to read in the article:&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2F;quote&lt;p&gt;As Stone and Glover point out, it is still unknown if the 
beta carotene in Golden Rice can even be converted to 
Vitamin A in the bodies of badly undernourished children.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2F;endquote&lt;p&gt;Given the advertising as a solution to the issue and all the surrounding hullabaloo, the fact that it is still not proven to do what it espouses--is pretty damning.</text></comment>
<story><title>Block on GM rice ‘has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness’</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/26/gm-golden-rice-delay-cost-millions-of-lives-child-blindness</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wwarner</author><text>Sorry, very inadequate treatment of this story. Golden rice is intellectual property, whose seeds are no longer owned by the farmer who grows them, but by whoever is selling it.&lt;p&gt;Think about it, can the root of the problem be the nutritional value of rice, when no rich country needs to license a foreign company&amp;#x27;s intellectual property to feed itself?</text></comment>