(October 16, 2014 at 6:17 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: People have a tendency to conflate Monsanto's shitty business ethics with their product, which isn't fair to the people that GMOs could help and save.
I don't believe it was a Monsanto product, but your post reminded me of the 10+ year battle over the GMO called Golden Rice, a genetically enhanced Beta-Carotene enriched version of regular rice that could solve within a few growing seasons -- if it wasnt for the anti-GMO hystrionics that errupted over its introduction (largely centering around past shitty business practices no less) -- the endemic and severe vitamin-A deficiency (which leads to blindness) that has plagued much of Asia and the Phillipines for decades. A classic example of where a GMO product could benefit a HUGE population in a life-changing way if it weren't for the barking idiots.
