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The Debate on the Golden Rice and its Background 30. March 2018

The Debate on the Golden Rice and its Background 30. March 2018 A Literature Review with comments Klaus Ammann, klaus.ammann@ips.unibe.ch Dedicated to the inventor and relentless promoter of Golden Rice, Ingo Potrykus. European edition of the TIMES Magazine replacing Potrykus Portrait.

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The Debate on the Golden Rice and its Background 30. March 2018

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  1. The Debate on the Golden Rice and its Background 30. March 2018 A Literature Review with comments Klaus Ammann, klaus.ammann@ips.unibe.ch Dedicated to the inventor and relentless promoter of Golden Rice, Ingo Potrykus

  2. European edition of the TIMES Magazine replacing Potrykus Portrait Ingo Potrykus, Prof. em. ETHZ Inventor of Golden Rice Time Magazine Cover July 31, 2000 (not published in the in the European edition) the original Times Magazine article: http://www.ask-force.org/web/Golden-Rice/Robinson-Times-Mag-Grains-Hope-20000731.PDF

  3. Judge GM crops on their properties, not the technique used to make them – and we can start saving lives Millions of children die worldwide every year, an untenable situation that is still worsening which needs immediate correction.

  4. Ebers Papyrus 1550 bc Sap of pressed ox liver Against Night Blindness Maumenee, A. (1993), The history of vitamin a and its ophthalmic implications: A personal viewpoint, Archives of Ophthalmology, 111, 4, pp. 547-550, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1993.01090040139048 AND http://www.ask-force.org/web/Golden-Rice/Maumenee-History-V-A-implications-1993.pdf

  5. Figure 15 Percentage of population with selected micronutrient deficiencies, Fig. 3.1. from IFPRI, Klaus von Grebmer, et al. (2014) Figure 15 Percentage of population with selected micronutrient deficiencies, Fig. 3.1. from IFPRI, Klaus von Grebmer, et al. (2014)

  6. Figure 16: The global burden of micronutrient malnutrition. The number of DALYs and deaths attributable to deficiencies of key vitamins and minerals as risk factors. Source: Compilation based on IHME Global Burden of Disease database (available at http://www.healthdata.org/search-gbd-data). From De Steur, Blancquaert, et al. (2015)

  7. Figure 18 Consequences of Micronutrient Deficiencies throughout the Life Cycles, fig. 3.3. from IFPRI, Klaus von Grebmer, et al. (2014)

  8. Figure 20 Public health importance of vitamin A deficiency, by country, redrawn and produced courtesy Banson, see also Whitcher, Srinivasan, et al. (2001) from Dubock (2017)

  9. The G8-G20 organization warned again in 2012 about the alarming world situation in malnutrition: G8-G20 (2012) G8 & G20: TWO SUMMITS TO TACKLE THE HIDDEN MALNUTRITION CRISIS. A call to action to end global hunger and malnutrition 8 pp http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/sites/default/files/docs/G8-G20-overview-brief-updated.pdf AND http://www.ask-force.org/web/Golden-Rice/G8-G20-tackle-hidden-malnutrition-crisis-2012.pdf

  10. “As world leaders have been grappling with one economic crisis after another, a hunger and malnutrition crisis affecting millions of children has gone unchecked. Pervasive long-term malnutrition is eroding the foundations of the global economy by destroying the potential of millions of children.” From G8-G20 (2012)

  11. This paper has been retracted, explicitly not for scientifically doubtful content, but for reasons of ethical behaviour of the author (with questionable arguments: the “crime” was to inform the children and teachers of the Chinese school that Golden Rice is “genetically altered”, but she avoided the term «genetiallyengineered»

  12. Dubock, A. (2017) An overview of agriculture, nutrition and fortification, supplementation and biofortification: Golden Rice as an example for enhancing micronutrient intake Agriculture & Food Security 6 1 59 pp ISBN/2048-7010 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-017-0135-3 AND http://www.ask-force.org/web/Golden-Rice/Dubock%20Overview-Giolden%20Rice%202017.pdf

  13. Scheufele, D. A. (2014) Science communication as political communication Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 Supplement 4 13585-13592 pp http://www.pnas.org/content/111/Supplement_4/13585.abstract AND http://www.ask-force.org/web/Discourse/Scheufele-Science-Communication-political-2014.pdf

  14. Kloor Keith (20130308) A Rebuttal to “Anti-GMO Grass-Roots Effort Gains Ground in U.S.” DISCOVER DISCOVER Waukesha, WI USA 3p Text, Comments 46p pp http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/2013/03/08/a-rebuttal/#.Vea1JfmqpBc AND http://www.ask-force.org/web/Discourse/Kloor-Discovery-Collide-a-Scape-20130808.pdf

  15. http://9gag.com/gag/am824Xy If an idea is stupid, it remains stupid, mutually exclusive to the amount of people who think that it's not... Social exclusion as a result has many historic parallels in fascism for example (extremist interpretations of Communism and Islamism should be included here). But: National Socialism in particular has many origins worldwide, and is by no means only rooted in historic Germany (with its admittedly worst tragic outcome), a “limited” selection (including other variants of totalitarian regimes) from Mussolini over Marx, Engels to Hitler, from Paxton, Reich to Berstein and Umberto Eco and others, see more details and references in chapter 2.6.1. Stigmatization on the social level in: Ammann Klaus. (20150615). The Debate on the Golden Rice and its Background, a Literature Review. name citations with full-text links, additions until July 20, 2015. ASK-FORCE 19. Neuchâtel, Switzerland. pp. 194 Retrieved from http://www.ask-force.org/web/AF-19--Golden-Rice-Review/Ammann-Debate-GR-Background-AF-19-names-fulltext-20150615.pdf

  16. Guess, A., Nyhan, B. and Reifler, J. (20180109) Selective Exposure to Misinformation: Evidence from the consumption of fake news during the 2016 US presidential campaign ERC Brussels 49 pp https://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/fake-news-2016.pdf AND http://www.ask-force.org/web/Fundamentalists/Guess-Selective-Exposure-to-Misinformation-Evidence-Presidential-Campaign-2018.pdf open source

  17. The Genome-widestructure of the Jewish People Behar, D. M., Yunusbayev, B., Metspalu, M., Metspalu, E., Rosset, S., Parik, J., Rootsi, S., Chaubey, G., Kutuev, I., Yudkovsky, G., Khusnutdinova, E. K., Balanovsky, O., Semino, O., Pereira, L., Comas, D., Gurwitz, D., Bonne-Tamir, B., Parfitt, T., Hammer, M. F., Skorecki, K., & Villems, R. (2010). The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people. Nature, 466(7303), pp. 238-242. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature09103 AND http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7303/abs/nature09103.html#supplementary-information AND http://www.ask-force.org/web/Golden-Rice/Behar-Genome-wide-structure-Jewish-people-2010.pdf

  18. Example of the fake campaign in Madagaskar(May 2014) set up by a student with a big positive echo of anti-GMO followers. RakotofalalaNavid (20140527), Madagascar Pranks March Against Monsanto - What is the difference?, in: pp. 11, RakotofalalaNavid,, http://madagainstmonsanto.blogspot.ch/2014/05/madagascar-marches-against-monsanto.html AND http://www.ask-force.org/web/Golden-Rice/Rakotofalala-Navid-Madagascar-Against-Monsanto-Prank-20140527.pdf AND comment http://www.ask-force.org/web/Golden-Rice/Eirdosh-Madagaskar-Student-Prank-20140525.pdf

  19. The Fear Industry at work Miglani Sanjeev (20140612), India spy agency says Greenpeace endangers economic security, in: R. E. UK. pp. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/06/12/us-india-projects-idUKKBN0EN1CT20140612 AND http://www.ask-force.org/web/India/Miglani-India-Spy-Agency-Greenpeace-20140612.pdf

  20. Greenpeace: offline and online subscribers, donors, volunteers and activists grew stronger and brought change to Government and Corporate policies in 2012 Greenpeace International (2012), Annual Report 2012 Worldwide, Greenpeace International, No. pp. 56, Amsterdam, Netherlands, http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/greenpeace/2013/GPI-AnnualReport2012.pdf AND http://www.ask-force.org/web/Greenpeace/Greenpeace-International-Annual-Report-2012.pdf

  21. Greenpeace Fraud (20140615), Greenpeace worker loses 3.8 mn euros in bad currency bet, New Straits Times Online and Der Spiegel, pp. http://www.nst.com.my/node/3037 AND http://www.ask-force.org/web/Greenpeace/Greenpeace-Zockt-3-8mio-Euro-20140615.pdf AND DER SPIEGEL Source http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/greenpeace-mitarbeiter-verzockt-spender-millionen-a-975215-druck.html AND DPA http://www.ask-force.org/web/Greenpeace/Greenpeace-Looses-Big-Money-DPA-20140615.pdf

  22. Genepeace, Not Greenpeace Despain David (20150611) BBC Panorama blasts anti-GMO activists for ignoring science underscoring turning point on biotech reporting Genetic Literady Project GLP New Yoruk 8 pp https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/06/11/bbc-panorama-program-blasting-anti-gmo-activists-for-ignoring-science-underscores-turning-point-on-gmo-reporting

  23. FEAR INDUSTRY: BIG BUSINESS SOMETIMES WITH STUPID ARGUMENTS Bouillon Hardy (201405) EU: NGO-Förderung geht am Bürgervorbei. EU NGO Promotion not in the Interest of Citizens, translation Klaus Ammann NOVO-Argumente NOVO Argumente Frankfurt pp English translation Klaus Ammann http://www.ask-force.org/web/NGOs/Bouillon-EU-Promotion-not-interested-in-Citizens-en-20140530.pdf BalasubramanianPonnuswami‎: see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AN_w0zHHxY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._Balasubramanian NeeyaaNaanaa Modern Aggies Support Group The ones who made these pictures do not know who are Indians or who is Gandhi. They do not know what is GMO either. They know only Monsanto

  24. Vandana Shiva pretendsuntiltoday that Indian Farmer’ssuicidesare due to Monsanto and Bt cotton. Farmer suicides and Bt cotton area in India, 1997–2007. Gruere, G. and D. Sengupta (2011), Bt Cotton and Farmer Suicides in India: An Evidence-based Assessment, Journal of Development Studies, 47, 2, pp. 316-337, <Go to ISI>://WOS:000286778300007 AND http://www.ask-force.org/web/Cotton/gruere-bt-cotton-suicides-2011.pdf

  25. Logo of the AllowGoldenRice Campaign initiated and led by Patrick and Michael Moore from Vancouver, see www.allowgoldenricenow.org Moore Patrick and Spahl Thilo (2014), Greenpeace: the Humanitarian Philosophy was gone, so I went, in: NOVO Argumente, April 2014, online, pp. 6, NOVO Argumente Verlad GmbH, Frankfurt a.M., ISSN0942–7244, http://www.novo-argumente.com/magazin.php/kontakt/ AND German original link: http://www.novo-argumente.com/magazin.php/novo_notizen/artikel/0001571 AND English translation http://www.ask-force.org/web/Golden-Rice-Moore/Moore-Spahl-Greenpeace-Humanitarian-Philosophy-gone-def-NOVO-2014.pdf

  26. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxiQo7CDck4#t=14

  27. Dr Patrick Moore (left) with Golden Rice co-inventor Dr Ingo Potrykus

  28. Nearly half the world’s under-five deaths were concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2012. Share of global under-five deaths by Millennium Development Goal region, 1990–2012 (percent). (UNICEF & You Danzen, PB, Jingxian Wu, Tessa Wardlaw,, 2013)

  29. BrundtlandGro Harlem and NGO Committee on Education (1987 and 2008), Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future, Transmitted to the General Assembly as an Annex to document A/42/427 - Development and International Co-operation: Environment, No. A/42/427, pp. 318 orig. and 223 print, Oslo, Norway, http://www.un-documents.net/ocf-acr.htm AND http://www.ask-force.org/web/Sustainability/Brundtland-Report-Original-19870804.pdf AND http://www.ask-force.org/web/Sustainability/Brundtland-Our-Common-Future-1987-2008.pdf

  30. In addition, and specifically for Children, the UNICEF and collaborating organizations have established principles applying to Children UNICEF (2011, UNICEF (2014), the pertinent paragraph: Article 24 “Health and health services. The child has a right to the highest standard of health and medical care attainable. States shall place special emphasis on the reduction of infant and child mortality and on the provision of primary and preventive health care and of public health education. They shall encourage international cooperation in this regard and strive to see that no child is deprived of access to effective health services.” To be explicit: we should all accuse the opponents of committing a humanitarian crime by preventing the swift introduction of the Golden Rice. There are two elements of such guilt: Firstly, by the direct, untruthful propaganda actions worldwide, including research field destructions in situ, and secondly by making sure that the regulatory hurdles are unrealistically high (which unfortunately leads to another years-long delay in the Philippines with lots of tedious, long-lasting regulatory risk-assessment in situ – always in danger to be destroyed or sabotaged. UNICEF (2014) Annual Report 2013, Results for Children UNICEF 1-52 pp http://www.unicef.cz/odkazove_zdroje_textove_materialy/vyrocni_zpravy/unicef_annual_report_2013_web_2_june_2014.pdf AND http://www.ask-force.org/web/Regulation/UNICEF-Annual-Report-2013-20140602.pdf

  31. Eduardo Kac, Natural History of the Enigma, transgenic flower with artist's own DNA expressed in the red veins, 2003/2008. Collection Weisman Art Museum. Photo: RikSferra.

  32. Alba, albino rabbit fluorescing under UV Light, Eduardo Kac help of Louis-Marie Houdebine and Patrick Prunet are scientists who work at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique-INRA

  33. Artist Diemut Strebe Vincent van Gogh, recons- tructed ear Copy of artist's ear is made of living cells grown from samples provided by the great-great-grandson of Van Gogh's brother http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jun/03/vincent-van-gogh-ear-replica-german-museum

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