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In reply to the discussion: Monsanto Fingerprints Found All Over Attack On Organic Food [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Golden rice doesn't actually help solve Vitamin A deficiency but is pimped out as a solution to blindness through poor nutrition -- which is a very dangerous lie, like all the lies about GMOs as solutions to world hunger, because it distracts from the real causes of inequality and poverty. But it's a handy talking point that serves commercial interests, so it refuses to die.
Golden rice has already failed on the market and the ags aren't even bothering to market it. Its failures had nothing to do with anti-GMO campaigning. But the ags continue to flog this now-old letter from 2008 or 2009 (which includes a number of signatures from now dead people) as part of their strategy of confusing all issues as much as possible, to paint any critique of GMOs (and the related business model) as "anti-science." Related to the confusionism is what you see on this thread with the "kitchen sink" nonsense throwing in completely unrelated matters.