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Golden Rice: GMO Rice with VA - Gold for whom?

#1 · April 2, 2019, 9:59 am

It boasts a beta-carotene conversion rate of 4-1. Higher than fruits and vegetables from 10-1 to 28 to 1. Sweet potatos 13-1.
And it's all free! Do as you please with it.

http://www.goldenrice.org/

"Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) has been recognised as a significant public health problem continuously for more than 30 years, despite current interventions. The problem is particularly severe in populations where rice is the staple food and diversity of diet is limited, as white rice contains no micronutrients. Golden Rice is a public-sector product designed as an additional intervention for VAD. There will be no charge for the nutritional trait, which has been donated by its inventors for use in public-sector rice varieties to assist the resource poor, and no limitations on what small farmers can do with the crop—saving and replanting seed, selling seed and selling grain are all possible. Because Golden Rice had to be created by introducing two new genes—one from maize and the other from a very commonly ingested soil bacterium—it has taken a long time to get from the laboratory to the field. Now it has been formally registered as safe as food, feed, or in processed form by four industrialised counties, and applications are pending in developing countries. The data are summarised here, and criticisms addressed, for a public health professional audience: is it needed, will it work, is it safe and is it economic? Adoption of Golden Rice, the next step after in-country registration, requires strategic and tactical cooperation across professions, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and government departments often not used to working together. Public health professionals need to play a prominent role."

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#2 · February 16, 2020, 12:21 pm

Looks like the trend for health to decline will continue with a stamp of approval, safe for mice, safe for consumption.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-57669-5

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#3 · February 17, 2020, 7:25 am

Scary.

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#4 · February 17, 2020, 4:39 pm

I really can't imagine how in the world there could be a vA defiiciency? Like almost everything has some amount of vA in it...

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#5 · February 18, 2020, 7:36 am

After decades of supplementation, there does not appear to be much progress:

Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) persists as a major public health nutrition problem, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Of course, they know that it will take years for it to bioaccumulate to toxic levels. So, what’s the length of their “safety study”?

All animals survived until the scheduled end of the study period on day 15 and there were no clinical signs (abnormal behavior, general appearance and mortality/moribundity) of toxicity observed during the test period, nor were any gross lesions found in the mice at necropsy.

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#6 · March 7, 2021, 12:05 pm

My neighbor said that she only buys a certain company's brown or white rice. She said she buys organic. She had found out where it's grown matters. She said it could be grown where the water is polluted or full of roundup and organic is just a word. She did a bunch of research on it I'm pretty sure. I can understand you being wary of what you bought.

Maybe found out where it was grown.

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#7 · March 7, 2021, 12:08 pm

Hi @are,

The comments regarding "yellow and golden" rice are specifically referring to the GMO beta-carotene producing rice. The product that Monsanto is pushing.

I've only seen "golden rice" sold in a few stores. At least here in Canada it is not very common yet. So, I think your are safe with the brown rice you have.

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