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[eridani]

114. Golden rice is an utterly useless product

It has no extra vitamin A--just more beta-carotene, its precursor. And you'd have to eat serveral pounds of it to get the daily vitamin A MDR, and even that presumes you are getting enough fat in your diet to aid its absorption, which most starving kids aren't. Want to prevent blindness in kids? Spend a quarter to give them a supplement every six months.

http://www.one.org/us/2012/10/11/preventing-blindness-and-saving-lives-with-vitamin-a/

A simple, affordable and proven solution exists: supplementing children with vitamin A. While many health and development challenges are complex to tackle—they can be expensive and require multiple interventions—preventing vitamin A deficiency can be accomplished by reaching children 6 to 59 months with just one dose of vitamin A every six months. Vitamin Angels’ cost to reach one child for one year is just 25 cents.