Vitamin A deficiency affects about 400 million people worldwide, leaving them at risk for infections and blindness. Women consuming such diets are particularly at risk from anemia and complications during childbirth. This rice should be available in the fields of developing countries within five years if it doesn't become entangled in regulatory red tape. Keep in mind that some countries have completely stopped the flow of genetically modified foods. This type of shortsighted hysteria could delay improved nutrition for the billions of people for whom rice is a staple.
Any new technology has risks, and biotechnology is no different.
Keep in mind, however, that biotechnology is an extremely broad field. We must not label the entire field as 'evil' and close our eyes to the tremendous relief that biotechnology can bring to some human suffering. The University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service Pest Management Newsletter, October 1999. As mirrors reflect on an obverse reality, popular accounts of the EPA's recently released risk assessment for chlorpyrifos seemed to be objective, but somehow wrong. The Post went on to say that exposure to Dursban on the skin, in food, or by inhalation could be harmful to human health.