Golden rice: why has it been banned and what happens now?

A court in the Philippines has banned the commercial growth of
golden rice, a genetically modified rice which was created to help
tackle vitamin A deficiency in developing countries. It’s just the
latest twist in a long and controversial journey for this rice. Ian
Sample hears from the Observer science and environment editor,
Robin McKie, and from Glenn Stone, a research professor of
environmental science at Sweet Briar College in Virginia who is
also an anthropologist who has studied golden rice, about why it
has taken so long for this potentially life-saving technology to
reach the fields, if it is the silver bullet so many had hoped for,
and whether this ban is really the end of the story. Help support
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