Hey,
First i appreciate your post, great post and i do believe you honestly want to help to improve some peoples lives here :)
Honestly i myself am extremely anti GMO haha, but after reading through your post i can see this is slighlty different than all this monsanto garbage for example ;)
As a health enthusiast i personally hate GMO's in the perspective of health. As far as i can i would never want to eat something "modified" myself.
But i can see a TEMPORARY use of golden rice to help 3rd world countries.
But only temporary ;)
Dont take the next text to personal, everything fine mate :)
After reading through your post and some comments i searched how much vitamin A is in this rice.
It said: 130-200 g cooked rice is containing 0,99 - 1,53 mg .
ok so far so good.
Than i searched simply in google how much 100 g of carrots have.
Google throw out: 9,5 mg
even 100 g of red sweet pepper has around 2,1 mg according to this site:
https://www.netdoktor.at/gesundheit/gesunde-ernaehrung/beta-carotin-5916
(sorry that it is in german. )
That made me suspiciously .
I continued with searching how much there is in 100 g Chlorella.
I end up with around 15 mg.
So far i dont see the point of the golden rice.
Arent there endless other options then this?
I am pretty sure there are endless different wild herbs that have extremely big amounts of beta carotin in it and can be grown in this areas with almost no cost at all.
That are just a few examples to show there can be a lot of other options probably.
If i think of "modification" i think of the hehe awesome hehe modifications to wheat, that created a crop unhealthy and of lowest quality. (but high quantity yeah :P)
Or the so nice grown up fruits, which contains a totally shitty high amount of fructose. (wow now it taste so sweet Oo)
etc. etc.
I think that is enough ;)
Thank you for your post and have a wonderful day :)
No need to worry about offending me. I'm glad someone with an anti-GMO sentiment can find some value in the post and I'm even more thankful that your comment focuses mostly on golden rice itself. I think you're right that golden rice doesn't have as much vitamin A as some other vegatables like carrots. However, the recommended daily allowance of golden rice is only 0.9 mg (https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements-vitamin-a/art-20365945) which is less than the amount of vintamin A in 130-200 g cooked rice according to your data. This means just a cup of cooked golden rice per day is sufficient to prevent vitamin A deficiency.
I'll admit that golden rice isn't a perfect solution to this issue. However, if a natural vegetable or herb could alleviate vitamin A deficiency in these impoverished ccountries and be easy to grow in those climates, I'm sure that there would be efforts to promote it as an alternative to golden rice.
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