The open letter comes as Federated Farmers dairy chairman called for the anti-GM movement in New Zealand to "give some ground". Golden Rice has been genetically modified to provide Vitamin A to counter blindness and other diseases in children in the developing world. Corporations were "overhyping" Golden Rice to pave the way for other more profitable GMO crops, she said. But an international representative said any claim that it was blocking the distribution of Golden Rice was false. In an open letter released yesterday, the Nobel Prize winners said environmental groups, led by Greenpeace, had opposed biotechnological innovation in agriculture and misrepresented the risks, benefits and impacts.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 01, 2016 09:22 UTC