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The Debate on the Golden Rice
and its Background
A Literature Review
Klaus Ammann, [email protected]
Dedicated to the inventor and relentless promoter of Golden Rice,
Ingo Potrykus
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Ammann Klaus (20140614), The Debate on the Golden Rice and its Background,
a Literature Review. Name citations with fulltext links, pp. 50, ASK-FORCE,
Neuchâtel, Switzerland,
http://www.ask-force.org/web/Golden-Rice/Ammann-Debate-GR-Backgroundnames-fulltext-20140614.pdf
Judge GM crops on their
properties, not the technique
used to make them –
and we can start saving lives
Millions of children die worldwide every
year, an untenable situation
that is still worsening which needs
immediate correction.
Ebers Papyrus
1550 bc
Sap of
pressed ox
liver
Against Night
Blindness
Maumenee, A. (1993),
The history of vitamin a
and its ophthalmic
implications: A personal
viewpoint, Archives of
Ophthalmology, 111, 4,
pp. 547-550,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/
archopht.1993.010900401
39048 AND
http://www.askforce.org/web/GoldenRice/Maumenee-HistoryV-A-implications-1993.pdf
Example of the fake
campaign in Madagaskar
(May 2014) set up by a
student with a big
positive echo of antiGMO followers.
Rakotofalala Navid (20140527),
Madagascar Pranks March Against
Monsanto - What is the difference?, in:
pp. 11, Rakotofalala Navid,,
http://madagainstmonsanto.blogspot.ch
/2014/05/madagascar-marches-againstmonsanto.html AND http://www.askforce.org/web/GoldenRice/Rakotofalala-Navid-MadagascarAgainst-Monsanto-Prank-20140527.pdf
AND comment http://www.askforce.org/web/Golden-Rice/EirdoshMadagaskar-Student-Prank20140525.pdf
Rakotofalala Navid (20140527), Madagascar Pranks March Against Monsanto - What is the difference?, in:
pp. 11,
Rakotofalala Navid,,
http://madagainstmonsanto.blogspot.ch/2014/05/madagascar-marches-against-monsanto.html AND
http://www.ask-force.org/web/Golden-Rice/Rakotofalala-Navid-Madagascar-Against-Monsanto-Prank-20140527.pdf AND
comment http://www.ask-force.org/web/Golden-Rice/Eirdosh-Madagaskar-Student-Prank-20140525.pdf
Miglani Sanjeev (20140612), India spy agency says Greenpeace endangers economic security, in: R. E. UK.
pp.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/06/12/us-india-projects-idUKKBN0EN1CT20140612 AND
http://www.ask-force.org/web/India/Miglani-India-Spy-Agency-Greenpeace-20140612.pdf
Greenpeace: offline and online subscribers,
donors, volunteers and activists grew stronger
and brought change to Government and
Corporate policies in 2012
Greenpeace International (2012), Annual Report 2012 Worldwide, Greenpeace International,
No. pp. 56, Amsterdam, Netherlands,
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/greenpeace/2013/GPI
-AnnualReport2012.pdf AND http://www.ask-force.org/web/Greenpeace/GreenpeaceInternational-Annual-Report-2012.pdf
Greenpeace Fraud (20140615), Greenpeace worker loses 3.8 mn euros in bad currency bet,
New Straits Times Online and Der Spiegel,
pp. http://www.nst.com.my/node/3037 AND
http://www.ask-force.org/web/Greenpeace/Greenpeace-Zockt-3-8mio-Euro-20140615.pdf AND
DER SPIEGEL Source http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/greenpeace-mitarbeiter-verzocktspender-millionen-a-975215-druck.html AND DPA http://www.askforce.org/web/Greenpeace/Greenpeace-Looses-Big-Money-DPA-20140615.pdf
Genepeace,
Not Greenpeace
Farmer suicides and Bt cotton area in India, 1997–2007.
Gruere, G. and D. Sengupta (2011), Bt Cotton and Farmer Suicides in India: An Evidence-based
Assessment, Journal of Development Studies, 47, 2, pp. 316-337, <Go to
ISI>://WOS:000286778300007 AND
http://www.ask-force.org/web/Cotton/gruere-bt-cotton-suicides-2011.pdf
Logo of the AllowGoldenRice Campaign initiated and led by Patrick and Michael
Moore from Vancouver, see www.allowgoldenricenow.org
Moore Patrick and Spahl Thilo (2014), Greenpeace: the Humanitarian Philosophy was gone, so I went,
in: NOVO Argumente, April 2014, online, pp. 6, NOVO Argumente Verlad GmbH, Frankfurt a.M.,
ISSN0942–7244, http://www.novo-argumente.com/magazin.php/kontakt/ AND German original link:
http://www.novo-argumente.com/magazin.php/novo_notizen/artikel/0001571 AND English translation
http://www.ask-force.org/web/Golden-Rice-Moore/Moore-Spahl-Greenpeace-Humanitarian-Philosophygone-def-NOVO-2014.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxiQo7CDck4#t=14
Dr Patrick Moore with Golden Rice co-inventor Dr Ingo Potrykus
Nearly half the
world’s under-five
deaths were
concentrated in
Sub-Saharan Africa
in 2012.
Share of global
under-five deaths
by Millennium
Development Goal
region, 1990–2012
(percent).
(UNICEF & You
Danzen, PB,
Jingxian
Wu, Tessa
Wardlaw,, 2013)
Brundtland Gro Harlem and NGO Committee on Education (1987 and 2008),
Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common
Future, Transmitted to the General Assembly as an Annex to document A/42/427 Development and International Co-operation: Environment, No. A/42/427, pp. 318
orig. and 223 print, Oslo, Norway, http://www.un-documents.net/ocf-acr.htm AND
http://www.ask-force.org/web/Sustainability/Brundtland-Report-Original19870804.pdf AND http://www.ask-force.org/web/Sustainability/Brundtland-OurCommon-Future-1987-2008.pdf
Eduardo Kac, Natural History of the Enigma, transgenic flower with
artist's own DNA expressed in the red veins, 2003/2008. Collection
Weisman Art Museum. Photo: Rik Sferra.
Alba,
albino
rabbit
fluorescing
under UV
Light,
Eduardo
Kac
help of Louis-Marie Houdebine and Patrick Prunet are
scientists who work at the Institut National de la
Recherche Agronomique-INRA
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jun/03/vi
ncent-van-gogh-ear-replica-german-museum
Artist Diemut Strebe
Vincent van
Gogh, reconstructed ear
Copy of artist's ear is
made of living cells
grown from samples
provided by the greatgreat-grandson of Van
Gogh's brother