Another brilliant GMO breakthrough: "bio-fortified" rice

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7. You perhaps should not post about GMOs because

you do not apparently understand what they are.

"This, like the breakthroughs in GMO rice in the 1970s, will save ten times as many lives as all the wars being waged combined."

The GM in GMO refers to genetically modified by direct genetic engineering (cutting and splicing) of the genetic material. The first GMO rice varieties were not put into use in the USA until 2000.

The high yield rice varieties of the "Green Revolution" of the 1970s were from plant breading programs (genetic selection of phenotypes) and included cloning and hybridization but did not include genetic engineering as the technology did not exist at the time. High yield rice came into common use circa 1966 and had continued and specific success ever since. Genetic engineering technology was not a used (or available) technology for high yield rice for another 30 years. What is known as the high yield rice of the Green Revolution were not GMOs.

Note I am not offering an opinion regards to GMOs which I support in the general but not always in the specific. I agree with the four paragraphs you copied.

I do offer the opinion that one who does not acknowledge and / or understand the difference in technology between the high yield rice of the 1970s Green Revolution and genetically engineered GMO rice of the 21st century should reconsider whether you are a poster that should make OPs regards GMOs.