Re:Monsanto’s Weed Killer, Dicamba, Divides Farmers
by Chathamization on Friday September 22, 2017 @09:38AM
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> Some trials have been started, but people keep protesting and doing stuff like burning the fields.
That's not the reason why Golden Rice has been a failure[1]:
> While activists did destroy one Golden Rice test plot in a 2013 protest, it is unlikely that this action had any significant impact on the approval of Golden Rice.
> “Destroying test plots is a dubious way to express opposition, but this was only one small plot out of many plots in multiple locations over many years,” he said.
Rather:
> As Stone and Glover note in the article, researchers continue to have problems developing beta carotene-enriched strains that yield as well as non-GMO strains already being grown by farmers.
That's not the reason why Golden Rice has been a failure[1]:
> While activists did destroy one Golden Rice test plot in a 2013 protest, it is unlikely that this action had any significant impact on the approval of Golden Rice.
> “Destroying test plots is a dubious way to express opposition, but this was only one small plot out of many plots in multiple locations over many years,” he said.
Rather:
> As Stone and Glover note in the article, researchers continue to have problems developing beta carotene-enriched strains that yield as well as non-GMO strains already being grown by farmers.
[1] https://source.wustl.edu/2016/06/genetically-modified-golden...