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Golden Rice Essay With the introduction of GMO’s, scientists around the world have been making different varieties of GMO’s to solve world wide problems. The Golden Rice was developed to solve VAD (Vitamin A Deficiency) in areas that have limited access to products with Vitamin A. Golden Rice was made in 1999 by two scientists, Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer and they haven’t received authorization. Over 250 million people have VAD and even with supplementation programs, the problem is still active. Few million people die or go blind every year due to VAD because the immune system and human eyes require Vitamin A. The reason poor areas suffer VAD heavily is because in some rural areas, access to Vitamin A products such as meat or fruits is limited or too expensive, thus preventing the low income population from receiving a varied nutrition with Vitamin A in it. Golden rice is both sustainable and has sufficient amounts of Vitamin A to provide the poor, as well as being easily suitable for most conditions so rural areas with low average income can gain access to Vitamin A and the number of people with VAD will decrease substantially.

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Most on the consequences of using golden rice are possibilities but the benefits are either calculations or proven facts. With the facts that exist, golden rice has large potential to improve the world at a global scale, especially economically for governments and the people since it is not commercialized yet. However, golden rice is still rather seemingly new so there are prospects of long term effects that is still not known. In conclusion, golden rice should be implemented into rural areas to cure VAD but only with strict regulations and an emergency course of actions contingent upon negative

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