It's still "being done": The first revision had too little Vit.A, the
second revision had plenty, and the third revision is planned to be far
more ambitious, by the sound of things. More supplementation, modified
amino acid profile.. I'd like it if they could get some DHA oils in
there, too: not only would it be, you know, DHA, but it would improve
the bioavailability of the Vitamin A that made the rice famous.
On 26/02/12 19:13, Nathan McCorkle wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Cathal Garvey <cathalgarvey@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It would be fun, but you don't ned stuff to resemble meat to feed the world. You can already feed more people a fully nutritious diet with just plants. Soy, for example, fulfills all of one's protein needs, but tends to have healthier fats, more antioxidants, and a dose of anticancer "angiogenesis inhibitors" to boot.
>>
>
> Why not knock-out the phytoestrogen pathway? A quick google didn't
> turn up any prior art on this... I wonder if it would screw other
> things up in the plant (protein/nutrient loss, lethal to plant so it
> won't even grow).
>
>> Meat is a wasteful use of fertile farmland. You don't need synbio to fix the problem, though you can still use it to improve the nutritive value of crops. Look up "golden rice", you'll like it!
>>
>
> Hasn't Golden Rice been 'done' for years now? I thought impoverished
> nations didn't want any part of it, because it was GMO. If I could buy
> Golden Rice, and it tasted decent, I'd eat it (as I eat rice often).
>
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