Ingo Potrykus developed Golden Rice genetically engineered to combat blindness and death in children by supplying 60 per cent of the vitamin A they need in a typical daily helping of rice. His project has been opposed from the outset by environmental groups, a stance described this week as wicked by UK environment minister, Owen Paterson. Andy Coghlan asks the inventor of the rice what he makes of it all.
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