06.09.2012 | permalink
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.