Golden Rice : Pro, Pros And Cons Of Golden Food

* Caffeic and gallic nutrients stimulate the flow of bile which helps alkalise food coming out of the stomach, reducing stress on the pancreas.

Stakeholders might propose to Ventria to plant rice elsewhere far from Sacramento valley with the same conditions (soil, seeds, weather..) and same techniques used in California, or even plant the GM rice in close area like greenhouse to avoid contamination.

No antibacterial compounds are available resistant to this disease but genetic engineering has developed the first trees to resist this devastating disease and increased the consumption level. Specific foods have been developed to correct malnutrition problems. To this end, plants have been modified to provide increased and more stable quantities of essential amino acids, vitamins, or desirable fatty acids. For example, golden rice has been genetically modified to increase beta-carotene content which may help to overcome the severe vitamin A deficiencies that cause blindness and iron. Plants can also be genetically modified to grow well in areas of low production potential. For example, two researchers in Mexico inserted a gene from a bacterium into papaya and tobacco to produce acid-tolerant crops. The crops thus secrete citric acid from their roots by combining with toxic metals which in turn making the soils accessible to protect the tropical forests which contain most of the world’s species of plants and animals. Genetic engineering also helps to decrease or eliminate the allergenic proteins that occur naturally. For example, it has been already used to reduce the levels of major allergen in rice and peanuts. Genetic engineering brings closer the prospect of commercial production in plants of edible vaccines and therapeutics for preventing and treating human diseases like cancer and diabetes. The genetically derived vaccines are potentially

As China’s population is estimated to reach 1.45 billion by 2020, the need to increase grain production by about 25% to satisfy the population growth is critical (Qiu, 850). As the main source of food in China, a shortage of rice supply would lead to devastating consequences. The genetically modified crops have been regarded as a promising solution by the Chinese government which can increase grain production hugely to satisfy the rapid population growth. However, there have been controversial views about GM rice, because the risks and negative effects of planting, growing and consuming GM rice can be hidden for a long time. It is important to ensure that the safety and risks of genetically modified crops are examined and analyzed fully before the crops are allowed for commercial planting.

Specter mentions that using these techniques we are actually able to make our foods a lot healthier. He says, “we can put something like vitamin A into rice, and that stuff can help millions of people, millions of people, prolong their lives.”One of the crops grown extensively in very poor areas of Africa

In the same article edited by Diaz it states that the use of a genetically modified (GM) type of cotton resulted in farmers saving “$25-$65 (USD) per acre owing to decreased pesticide application”. Not only are GMO’s saving famers money and time, but they are also reducing the amount of pesticides that are being put into the soil. It goes without saying that this decrease in pesticides would help to keep water safe and create less run of from farms. In an article by Josh Schonwald entitled “Engineering the Future of Food”, it states that “...250,000 children worldwide, mostly in the developing world, have diets lacking in vitamin A.” Because of this, “Between 250,000 and 500,000 of these children go blind every year.” For these children who are not able to get their hands on foods that are rich in vitamin A, GMOs may be one of the only solutions that they have. A plant called “golden rice” has now been cleared by every health organization in the world and had been deemed safe for consumption is now available. Like Schonwald and Diaz said, these are plants and organisms that are being produced in

“Vitamin A is necessary for eyesight and every year about 500,000 people, mainly children in India and Africa, go blind due to vitamin A deficiency. The golden rice has the potential to eliminate this human tragedy when it is introduced in a few years.” (Moore). And yet Greenpeace is fighting against it. And lastly, Dr. Moore recaps Professor Philip Stott of the University of London regarding genetic modification advantages for human health such as less hearth and cancer health problems, less saturated fats and cholesterol.

As human civilization has evolved over the centuries, the way we produce our food has changed. There are many terms for describing this process such as food biotechnology or genetic engineering, but the most common one is genetically modified organisms or GMO. GMOs are used on plant life to enhance certain qualities before consumption or extraction. There have been many concerns about this subject, but despite this it should continue to be used in the future out of necessity.

Hanley, Brian. "Sorry Greenpeace, Golden Rice Is a Win for Nutrition and Health."Http://www.internationalpolicydigest.org/. N.p., 18 Feb. 2014. Web. 22 Sept. 2015. .

GMOs (or “genetically modified organisms”) are living organisms whose genetic material has been artificially manipulated in a laboratory through genetic engineering, or GE. This relatively new science creates unstable combinations of plant, animal, bacteria and viral genes that do not occur in nature or through traditional crossbreeding methods.

In the last thirty years, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been used for in the production of medicine and food and are widely used in scientific research and the production of other products (Junod, 2009). A GMO is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques, including mutation, insertion, or deletion of genes (Nelson, 2010).

Around 500,000 children go blind every year because of vitamin A deficiency, so a strain of rice was developed that unlike normal rice, contained enough vitamin A to keep children

In many undeveloped countries that do not have varied sources of food, malnutrition is major issue for them. A solution would be modified foods scientist engineered to include more vitamins and/or minerals meaning that the country would be able to use the rice to combat malnutrition. An example of this would be rice that scientist modified to give vitamin A; deficiency in this particular vitamin can lead to poor eyesight and sometimes even blindness. Even so, with the way plants breed with one another has been very

"Golden Rice" has been developed by scientists to combat vitamin A deficiency, which affects millions of children in the developing worlds. However, as a precautionary means, the crop was offered to the authorities for a safety evaluation which was interrupted when a group of around 400 protestors attacked the field trial in the Bicol region and uprooted all the GM plants. The project, initially started 20 years ago by German researchers with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, relied on modifying the rice through the addition of additional genes that produce beta-carotene, which is converted into vitamin A in the digestive process. Vitamin A deficiency is a significant problem in developing countries, which is why golden rice provides such an attractive solution to prevent unnecessary defects and death, especially among younger populations. Yet, farmers from the Philippines are avidly rejecting this crop option because of fears of damage it may cause, while also arguing that they have other solutions for the Vitamin A deficiency problem. However, the “Allow Golden Rice Now!” campaign is led by Dr. Patrick Moore, and aims to convince government officials and the Filipino people to accept Golden Rice as a nutritional and needed addition to their daily diet, with an emphasis on GM rice serving as a much needed golden bullet.

* Debido a que los compuestos de origen natural no pueden ser patentados, es crítico para el negocio desarrollar un proceso productivo del medicamento que sí pueda serlo. De esta manera, es posible blindar la innovación de Rice-Active ante sus competidores y mantener una ventaja competitiva sobre éstos.