Paterson Strongly Fights for Golden Rice
October 16, 2013| |
Owen Paterson, UK Minister for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, expressed his aversion towards the opponents of genetically modified crops who sabotaged the testing of Golden Rice, the vitamin A-enriched GM rice.
"It's just disgusting that little children are allowed to go blind and die because of a hang-up by a small number of people about this technology," he told the media during an interview. "I feel really strongly about it. I think what they do is absolutely wicked."
Paterson believes that GM crops could improve the environment and save lives. He said that the severe regulation of their production could make them safer than conventional products.
"There are 17 million farmers, farming 170 million hectares which is 12% of the world's arable area, seven times the surface area of the UK (with GM) and no one has ever brought me a single case of a health problem," he added.
Read more at http://news.sky.com/story/1154170/gm-crop-opponents-are-wicked-paterson.
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