Greenpeace is pro child death

"Opponents maintain that there are better ways to deal with vitamin A deficiency. In its latest statement, Greenpeace says that golden rice is “neither needed nor necessary,” and calls instead for supplementation and fortification, which are described as “cost-effective.”

To be sure, handing out vitamin pills or adding vitamin A to staple products can make a difference. But it is not a sustainable solution to vitamin A deficiency. And, while it is cost-effective, recent published estimates indicate that golden rice is much more so.

Supplementation programs costs $4,300 for every life they save in India, whereas fortification programs cost about $2,700 for each life saved. Both are great deals. But golden rice would cost just $100 for every life saved from vitamin A deficiency.

Similarly, it is argued that golden rice will not be adopted, because most Asians eschew brown rice. But brown rice is substantially different in taste and spoils easily in hot climates. Moreover, many Asian dishes are already colored yellow with saffron, annatto, achiote, and turmeric. The people, not Greenpeace, should decide whether they will adopt vitamin A-rich rice for themselves and their children."

Where is the Faux Outrage from the left?  Something that is affordable and will save not just lives but the eyesight of countless millions of children, is somehow "Bad".

While these people play their little political and ideological games, children are dying.

That should be the concern.  Not their fweewings about how they are trying to save the world.

How about you save the children?

Environmental Activism Hypocrisy in action

"Greenpeace and its allies have successfully blocked the introduction of golden rice for over a decade, claiming it may have “environmental and health risks” without ever elaborating on what those risks might be. After years of effort the Golden Rice Humanitarian Project, led by Dr. Potrykus, The Rockefeller Foundation and others were unable to break through the political opposition to golden rice that was generated directly by Greenpeace and its followers."

While Greenpeace and other environmental groups play political games, children are going blind, and then dying within a year to two years of going blind.  Greenpeace and their allies say there are alternatives to Golden Rice, but don't actually help bring those alternatives about.  Sort of like blocking your neighbor from planting apple trees saying there are other way to get apples, and not helping him to get those other apple, but still blocking him from growing them himself.  Simple hypocrisy and political gamesmanship for the "Feel Good" crowd.  They want to feel good about themselves, like they are "Doing"something to help the environment.  And yet they are simply getting in the way of progress and actual good work.