From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Mon Jul 08 2002 - 19:05:20 MDT
On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 05:18 pm, John K Clark wrote:
>> Golden rice is a different color than white rice,
>> and has a different nutrient content and a different taste.
>
> Interesting example. There is a test in this case, just look for beta
> carotene the precursor of vitamin A, no natural strain of rice has the
> gene
> to make it so you'll never get it from crossbreeding. The idea was to
> take
> a gene from the carrot and put it into the most popular agricultural
> crop in
> the would so a 10 ounce bowl of rice would contain all the vitamin A you
> need in a day. 124 million people are deficient in vitamin A in the
> third
> world, between 1 and 2 million people die from it each year, it is also
> the
> leading cause of blindness in children. All in all golden rice seems
> like a
> pretty worthwhile project to me.
You have changed the subject. Nobody is questioning whether golden rice
is good or not. The question is whether it should be labeled
differently than regular rice. I maintain that it would be confusing
and misleading to sell white rice as golden rice or vice versa.
Everything you say seems to support my position.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
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