The Golden Rice

The Golden Rice project is a project to genetically modify different species of rice that contains excess amount of betacarotene, where betacarotene is essential to the human diet as a resource of vitamin A.

 I believe that the Golden Rice project should be proceed because it is currently the best type of rice for the third world country. Though the golden rice cannot provide the amount of vitamin A that the body requires, it is still better than providing none. Many people has eye problems, or even more die, from the deficiency of vitamin A. The amount of deaths from the deficiency of vitamin A by proceeding this engineer project, especially in Third World countries. Though it requires a lot of investment to initiate the project, I believe that it is better for the government to spend taxes on aspect that would benefit their society. Profits in the country might be lessen, but it would benefit their population in the long term. Lastly, though the Cons may disagree by saying that if the country only grow one type of rice in their area, the whole population of rice could be lacking due to natural resources according to Darwin's natural selection. This statement is convincing, but it also goes the same to other type of rices that does not provide any amount of vitamin A as well. In fact, since the Golden Rice is genetically modified, I believe that researchers can further modify it so that it can stand different consequences.