rice

There's a news story about manufactured plastic rice being marketed in Nigeria and sold as real rice. This is after there being older stories about plastic rice being made in China and sold as counterfeit rice. I'm skeptical. Suspected plastic rice has been seized in Nigeria and is being...

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/10/02/greenpeace-founder-now-protesting-their-stance-on-golden-rice Good luck to him! :thumbsup:

Knowing that a majority of the planet is poor, and that a majority of those poor derive the majority of their sustenance from rice, this cannot be a good thing. I have thought that famine was certain in this century since I real "Limits To Growth" in the early 70s, but this crisis is much...

Better health for the farmer and less pesticides in the environment. http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=3909508

From the BBC: Previously, critics of GM foods gave the low levels of beta carotene in golden Rice as a reason it was no good, scientists were evil and GM food would be the end of the world. OK I exaggerate, but not by much. I still don’t know if golden rice is the answer, but this does...