I’m really glad to see this post, but I do believe that the direct nutritional benefit from Golden Rice is only the tip of the iceberg. The stigmatization of GMOs is perhaps the largest factor limiting innovation in food tech, agritech, and biotech. Fixing this would have massive implications for farmed animal welfare, climate change, food security, biodiversity, and longevity.
I tend to agree, but it seems like a hard problem to fix. Like I described in the post, you have environmental activists, farmers, the general public and politicians against you in most countries. I’m really not sure what the best path to victory is, but I think we should copy successful strategies of the animal welfare movement.
I’m really glad to see this post, but I do believe that the direct nutritional benefit from Golden Rice is only the tip of the iceberg. The stigmatization of GMOs is perhaps the largest factor limiting innovation in food tech, agritech, and biotech. Fixing this would have massive implications for farmed animal welfare, climate change, food security, biodiversity, and longevity.
I tend to agree, but it seems like a hard problem to fix. Like I described in the post, you have environmental activists, farmers, the general public and politicians against you in most countries. I’m really not sure what the best path to victory is, but I think we should copy successful strategies of the animal welfare movement.
I was especially impressed by Leah Garcé′s on turning adversaries into allies and assume that similar approaches could work for GMOs, e.g. when talking to farmers.
Interesting example of pro-GMO farmers here