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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry and president of the Royal Society
I am very happy eating transgenic maize. Genetically modified foods can make a difference: adapted to drought or more nutrients in a crop such as Golden Rice, in which precursors of vitamin A are introduced and can help prevent childhood blindness.
Swapan Kumar Datta Well known scientist of rice biotechnology
Several issues such as malnutrition and anaemia can be resolved if genetically modified rice is made available for cultivation
Hillary Clinton US presidential candidate
We talk about drought-resistant seeds, and I’ve promoted them all over Africa. By definition, they have been engineered to be drought-resistant, I mean that’s the beauty of them. Maybe somebody can get their harvest done and not starve, and maybe there’s some left over to sell.Disagree:
Greenpeace We're an independent global campaigning organisation acting to change attitudes and behaviour,
Genetic engineering enables scientists to create plants, animals and micro-organisms by manipulating genes in a way that does not occur naturally. These genetically modified organisms (GMOs) can spread through nature and interbreed with natural organism
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader, and risk analyst
There are resilient ways to solve problems, say feed the world, without complicated technologies that entail fragility and unkown possibilities.
