#GMO Golden #Rice does not contain nutritional benefits. Yet a ambiguous approval by #USFDA. Is it not a play with public #health ? Probably #hazardous too for consumption. If #IRRI is a public institution, it has to answer all questions. https://t.co/sh4no9pxsM
PATIKIM FESTIVAL 2018
Gen Nakar, Quezon, PH - farmers, advocates, and Local Government Units converged in an annual celebration of bountiful harvest called Patikim Festival.
https://t.co/dviPwgZXGf
Rice is the staple food for more than half the 🌎's population.
#DYK it is uniquely suited to wet environments in which other crops would not survive? Hence its widespread popularity across #Asia. #ZeroHunger
This is alarming.
Genuine regulation of GM Rice trade is non existent in most countries because of absence of political will, public education and technical capacities. Such will put consumers rights and welfare in jeopardy. https://t.co/5BByhyKP07
#Canada authorises the marketing of the controversial #GoldenRice. Is this a way of encouraging Asian countries to authorise it as well? Via @infogm. https://t.co/bFrP59xMrk @stopgoldenrice#GMO
April 4, 2018, sectors in the PH as well as international participants converged in front of the Dept of Agriculture to call on the department to immediately scrap the application for field test and direct use of Golden Rice in the PH https://t.co/bVdpXVcAuE via @youtube
Farmers from Negros Occidental held a press conference and protest action in front of Department of Agriculture Region VI Sub-Office in Bacolod City last April 4, 2018 urging to reject the field and feed testing of Golden Rice in the country.
#StopGoldenRice#notoGMO