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2009-06-08 |

Yield of dreams - Modified foods are a rational alternative to mass starvation

Come with me into the strange world of genetic modification, where food doesn’t behave as you might expect. Roll up, roll up. Here is the golden rice with the nutritional benefits of carrots. Over there, the purple cancer-preventing tomato. Coming soon, once field trials in Nigeria are complete, the super cassava, an entire meal in a single root vegetable. In a decade or so we can all enjoy protein-rich cotton seeds, from the same plant that provides the fibres for your clothes.

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2009-06-08 |

Yield of dreams - Modified foods are a rational alternative to mass starvation

Come with me into the strange world of genetic modification, where food doesn’t behave as you might expect. Roll up, roll up. Here is the golden rice with the nutritional benefits of carrots. Over there, the purple cancer-preventing tomato. Coming soon, once field trials in Nigeria are complete, the super cassava, an entire meal in a single root vegetable. In a decade or so we can all enjoy protein-rich cotton seeds, from the same plant that provides the fibres for your clothes.

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