I highly doubt that anti-GMO campaigns had anything to do with selling rice to the third world. The first world doesn't give a sh#* about giving the third world massively out of date medication, I don't think that anyone would bat an eyelash over what kind of rice we are selling them.
If a guy in Sacramento asks for a label spelling out what percentage of harmless dilapidated goat testicle has been added into the code for his Red Delicious Apple, three orphans in India don't die.
The more stories companies hide behind to prevent the labeling of the content of our food, the more it looks like they have something worth hiding. Just label it and get it over with. The consumer can decide if the method of genetic modification is acceptable.
The rice that we sell to India = the cheapest rice the world has ever seen. GMO or no GMO was never a consideration. Any delay in getting golden rice to India was to save some valuable yacht dollars. (Can't you see Leo Dicaprio's next character study sailing around on the 80 foot 'Rice Baby'?)
PS. I realize that I'm coming across as anti-GMO, but really I'm more pro-truth. All of this just smells of smokescreens and lies.
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