A half a million children that become irreversibly blind due to malnutrition could have been had that spared fate if GMO golden rice were available.
How many people have problems like this from GMO?
In large parts of the world where malnutrition is an issue, their governments have the choice of buying food or guns and they more than often buy guns. GMO is not going to help these cases.
Not to mention the million or so children who die every year because their vitamin A deficiency compromised immune systems can't protect them from disease. Most of these children are under five years of age. Golden rice would eliminate most of this death and suffering, but idiots like Greenpeace are making sure that doesn't happen. Yeah, save the whales. Screw the human children. Why any conservatives would get into bed with the likes of Greenpeace is a mystery.