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To be technical it was first world companies exploiting the uneducated in those 3rd world countries into asking for suppressive regulations, which their lawmakers then abided by.
Look up Greenpeace actions against Golden Rice. It's an example of how misplaced ideology literally kills millions of people.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/17/golden-rice-genetically-modified-superfood-almost-saved-millions/
Oh they have also have made GMO rice with folic acid.
The actual point of the GMO crops is that it's patentable. The local farmers objected because Monsanto, yes, that Monsanto, was going to charge them fucking royalties.
Now, Monsanto did, at one point, offer to let researchers develop GMO crops without paying their fees.
https://www.science.org/content/article/monsanto-waives-fees-golden-rice
And for some of their actual perspectives:
https://grain.org/en/article/6516-why-we-oppose-golden-rice
Also last time i checked, golden rice had lower yields than other varieties so it still needs years of breeding to be competitive. And needless to say, the real solution to these nutrition problems is economic development, which won't happen with propietary crops.
Classic tech bro solutions without understanding the real problem.
quoted from the grain.org article you postes.