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Bilderserie: Venezuelans flock across border due to food shortage

Al Jazeera - Venezuelans flock across border due to food shortage

Lesehinweis: Eine privatisierte Stadt in Indien

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Südkorea auf dem Weg in eine Diktatur?

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Mehr als hunder Nobelpreisträger Nobel kritisieren Greenpeaces Ablehnung gegenüber genetisch veränderten Organismen

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Scientific and regulatory agencies around the world have repeatedly and consistently found crops and foods improved through biotechnology to be as safe as, if not safer than those derived from any other method of production. There has never been a single confirmed case of a negative health outcome for humans or animals from their consumption. Their environmental impacts have been shown repeatedly to be less damaging to the environment, and a boon to global biodiversity.

Greenpeace has spearheaded opposition to Golden Rice, which has the potential to reduce or eliminate much of the death and disease caused by a vitamin A deficiency (VAD), which has the greatest impact on the poorest people in Africa and Southeast Asia.

The World Health Organization estimates that 250 million people, suffer from VAD, including 40 percent of the children under five in the developing world. Based on UNICEF statistics, a total of one to two million preventable deaths occur annually as a result of VAD, because it compromises the immune system, putting babies and children at great risk. VAD itself is the leading cause of childhood blindness globally affecting 250,000 - 500,000 children each year. Half die within 12 months of losing their eyesight.

via Washington Post