Reply #62: I don't mean to be rude, but that's ridiculous. [View All]

[Hannah Bell]

There are hundreds of foods containing vitamin A & forms of carotene which the body can convert to vitamin A, & most of them are cheap & easy to grow & raise, e.g. eggs, carrots.

The only people who are vitamin A deficient are:

1. People who don't get enough food, period
2. People who don't get a varied diet, e.g. eat something like rice & beans for every meal
3. People who have some kind of metabolic/absorption problem.

If people don't get enough food or enough variety, the most usual reason is: they're dirt poor. In that case, the solution isn't to spend millions to develop genetically modified rice & beans containing more nutrients, the solution is to raise them from poverty - give them land to grow crops, give them jobs paying more than $1/day.

If they have a metabolic problem, plant breeding won't help them either.

But it will help the rich people who own the patents for the new food varieties. Especially if they can get farmers to plant them to the exclusion of traditional varieties.

I have no idea what you could be talking about when you say your friend was genetically modified.