Mr. Pinstrup Anderson This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. Untitled Document

   www.suburbanresistance.org/mem - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/6/2003   Last Visited: 7/2/2004

   Mr. Pinstrup Anderson of IRRI has suggested that the "vitamin A rice could provide a public relations boost for plant biotechnology, which has been criticized by some environmentalists and consumer activists for promoting ‘Frankenfoods'."

2. 2. Vitamin A Rice

   www.amberwaves.org/web_article - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/10/2002   Last Visited: 3/21/2006

   ,Mr. Pinstrup Anderson, the IRRI Director, has suggested that the "vitamin

3. 3. A Blind Approach to Blindness prevention

   www.indiatogether.org/reports/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/9/2001   Last Visited: 1/11/2002

   The first deficiency of genetic engineering rice to produce Vitamin A is the eclipsing of alternative sources of vitamin A. As per, Mr. Pinstrup Anderson, Head of the International Rice Research Institute has said that Vitamin A rice is necessary for the poor in Asia, because "we cannot reach very many of the malnourished in the world with pills". However, there are many alternatives to pills for Vitamin A supply. Vitamin A is provided by liver, egg yolk, chicken, meat, milk, butter. Beta-carotene, the vitamin A precursor is provided by dark green leafy vegetables, spinach, carrot, pumpkin, mango and drumstick. Women farmers in Bengal use more than 100 plants for green leafy vegetables.
   
   The lower cost, accessible and safer alternative to genetically engineered rice is to increase biodiversity in agriculture.
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   Mr. Pinstrup Anderson, the IRRI Director has suggested that the "vitamin A rice could provide a public relations boost for plant biotechnology, which has been criticised by some environmentalists and consumer activists for promoting "Franken foods"" It has yet to be established that genetically engineered rice is not a Franken food. But one thing is clear. Promoting it as a tool against blindness while ignoring safer, cheaper, available alternatives provided by our rich agro-biodiversity is nothing short of a blind approach to blindness control.
   
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   This extensive report on Golden Rice is produced for India Together by Samanvaya, a Chennai-based non-profit consulting organization.