GMO news related to Philippines

06.09.2012 |

Greenpeace Philippine hits China’s use of children as ’guinea pig’ for ’golden rice’

THE international environmental group Greenpeace expressed alarm over the experimental feeding of the genetically modified ”golden rice” to 24 children in China. According to Greenpeace, there's a big possibility that the proponents of the project will eventually use Filipino children as their guinea pig for the on-going golden rice project. [...] ”It is incredibly disturbing to think that an American research body, in a serious breach of scientific and medical ethics, used children as guinea pigs for genetically engineered food, despite a clear directive against this very experiment issued by Chinese authorities in 2008,” said Fang Lifeng, Sustainable Agriculture campaigner at Greenpeace East Asia.

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