Standing up for GMOs
Posted by Luiz Antonio Barreto de Castro | Categories: Ethical / Social, Research
On October 25th, 2013 I blogged about standing up for preclinical tests, written after the Instituto Royal in Brazil was invaded by vandals. They destroyed all the laboratories at the Institute, stole more than two hundred beagles and forced the Institute to close its doors. Bruce Alberts and ten eminent scientists earlier wrote an editorial for Science with a similar title: Standing up for GMOs. This after activists destroyed Golden Rice experiments at the Philippines International Rice Institute. Golden Rice is waiting to be released commercially, while thousands die every year, blind, due to the lack of Vitamin A. Read more
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