Saturday 9 July 2011

Examples of genetically modified food- (1): Golden Rice

Genetically modified food- (1): Golden Rice   
                                          
Golden rice contains a large amount of A-vitamins. Or more correctly, the rice contains the element beta-carotene which comes from two daffodil genes and one bacterium gene. The advantage of golden rice is that it allows people to get beta carotene from rice. This is especially helpful for people living in poorer countries in Asia, where their staples are rice.

Having beta-carotene from rice allows lesser occurance of deficiencies of Vitamin A, such as eyes problems and night blindness. On the flip side of the coin, this means that there is reliance of large private companies to develop these genetically modified food seeds. As mentioned earlier of the use of terminator technology, the consumption of Golden rice does not benefit farmers in the long-run because they would have to spend money each year to buy these monopolized food crop seeds.

 
more updates from Monica on other GM food coming up.. continue to watch on!  

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