Golden Rice: The Imperiled Birth of a Gmo Superfood

by Ed Regis

Book Overview

The first book to tell the shocking story of Golden Rice, a genetically modified grain that provides essential Vitamin A and can save lives in developing countries--if only they were allowed to grow it.

Ordinary white rice is nutrient poor; it consists of carbohydrates and little else. About one million people who subsist on rice become blind or die each year from vitamin A deficiency. Golden Rice, which was developed in the hopes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421433036
• ISBN13: 9781421433035
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher