Golden rice is no solution to malnutrition

http://www.grain.org/article/entries/4777-golden-rice-is-no-solution-to-malnutrition

August 29 2013

GM crops are no solution to malnutrition!

Groups in Asia support Filipino farmers' uprooting of Golden Rice

PRESS RELEASE
August 29, 2013

On August 8, 2013 more than 400 farmers, church people, students, academics and consumers uprooted a field trial of genetically modified (GM) rice that was nearly ready for harvest in Pili, Camarines Sur, Philippines. This courageous action undertaken by the Peasant Movement of Bicol and the Sikwal-GMO alliance was necessary to prevent the contamination of Asia's most important food crop by GMOs.

(Photo: Philippine Department of Agriculture)

Field trials of Golden Rice, one in