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Introduction of C4 traits into rice to increase photosynthetic efficiency

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Re: Introduction of C4 traits into rice to increase photosynthetic efficiency

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Post by DanBC »

nbarbettini wrote: post #20
badminton1 wrote: post #14

Reminds me of golden rice. It was created to solve nutritional deficiencies in about the same populations, but didn't succeed. I hope this initiative does.

Golden Rice isn't a failure, it just hasn't yet been deployed at a large scale. The folks working on it have been making a lot of progress, but it's been slow. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice#Golden_Rice_2 ) Sadly, part of the reason why it's been delayed is due to fearmongering by groups like Greenpeace who are ideologically opposed to genetic engineering.

> Sadly, part of the reason why it's been delayed is due to fearmongering by groups like Greenpeace who are ideologically opposed to genetic engineering.

Some of the delay was calm objection to massive corporations. http://whqlibdoc.who.int/bulletin/2000/Number%2010/78(10)new...

Golden rice had a bunch of patents from over 20 organisations -- putting farmers at risk of licence violation. Pressure from Greenpeace and WHO (and WHO aren't known as a radical anti-GMO org) helped companies like Monsanto declare that they wouldn't be using terminator genes and would allow farmers to collect and sow some of their crop. (But only farmers who earn less than $10,000 per year).

Re: Introduction of C4 traits into rice to increase photosynthetic efficiency

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Post by fulafel »

mcculley wrote: post #6
fulafel wrote: post #4

We are using most of grown crops as feed in meat production. So we don't have to increase production to keep up with population growth, the other option is to cut down on conspicuous consumption in what we eat.

Do you think that the majority of meat consumption is conspicuous consumption?

Increases in meat consumption are happening motsly in the developing world, and it's largely a status thing.

In the west it's a little more complicated since it's embedded in the food culture, and has a big systemic component (subsidies), but having a lot of meat at the table is traditionally considered a sign of prosperity here as well.

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