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It should be obvious that golden rice must be more expensive than traditional rice, otherwise it would not be promoted by whichever company has invented it.

Therefore it would take $$$ from the pockets "of the world’s poorest" to the pockets of that company.

Correct education is the "drop-in solution" for the poor, not convincing them to buy a more expensive "IP-protected" product, so that their lives will become dependent of the new exclusive supplier.



Golden rice want IP protected - it was part of the deal that targeted use was not too be encumbered.

The biggest "IP protections" on golden rice came from... Greenpeace and other anti-GMO activists - who wanted prevention against "accidental contamination" of non-gmo with gmo.




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