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Golden rice: why has it been banned and what happens now? #scienceWeekly
An excellent podcast episode on a sciency and politically charged news story. Golden rice is genetically modified to produce vitamin A, which could prevent blindness of children in areas relying on rice as staple food. Commercial cultivation has now been stopped by a court in the Philippines after a lawsuit supported by Greenpeace. So has Greenpeace become a baddie? The podcast takes a closer look and shows that the situation is more complicated.