If it were as simple as the author wants us to believe, why are there ANY children losing their sight in this day and age?

why are there ANY children losing their sight in this day and age?

Why is it more feasible to provide resources for distribution of rice than it is any other solution?

And protestors have destroyed entire fields of the stuff, for another.

What the F ever, dude.

according to the GMO lobby and DU contortionists. They are a cursed species of plant adapted to hipster gardens and large aircraft.... so impactical!!

Pioneers used to favor them because roots store well, but they're so impractical!!!

Meanwhile, we throw away 40% of our food.

a rich American preaching about golden rice. And that is dangerous.

Sure, just eat a mango!

What? You don't have a mango?

What? No mint chutney either?

What? You don't even have a refrigerator?

Oh, yeah. Oops.

Is there reason to believe that corporate rice is more readily disseminated than any of the listed alternatives? You assert that none of those alternatives are available to those suffering, but it is certainly reasonable to note that Golden Rice isn't available either.
To me as a policy analyst, the issue seems more one rooted in distribution of resources than it does lack of existing food source.

Golden rice is not available because it has been stymied by people's luddite concerns of GMOs; stimulated by fear-mongers like Shiva.

Strange that Shiva doesn't explain where her flippant alternatives are being implemented.

As specific on how that view is probably not sustainable, I know from personal experience how ingrained is the habit of polishing rice in the process of preparation. As I understand it, the benefits of the GR are in the outermost layer. Most peoples that eat rice as a staple routinely wash off that out layer in the prep process to protect against a toxic mold.

Is that the fault of the critics or is that a problem with this specific solution?

Shiva's alternatives are being used all over the world. The better question is why aren't they being used in areas of Vit. A deficiency? Can you say with authority that distribution isn't the core issue? It's my first assumption but I don't know much on the topic.

But as for the how...

In the Philippines activists physically destroying the fields.

So who were these attackers? Did they look like farmers? "No," replied Boncodin. "Maybe two or three of them were farmers, but the rest of them were not real farmers. I could see that this was the first time they had stepped in mud or been to a farm. They were city boys, city girls. Two of them were even sporting dyed hair. ... Would you consider a farmer having dyed hair?"

There is additional evidence beyond the physical appearance of the activists. "Real farmers will not trash a living rice plant," said Boncodin, who is a native of the region where the vandalism took place. "They have this culture that it is unlucky to kill a living rice plant," even if plants are diseased and threaten to infect the rest of the crop.

This taboo on destroying green rice plants is widespread and even has a name: Bosung. Boncodin insists that the real farmers "stayed by the side, and didn't directly participate in the trashing of the trial site." When local people were informed, their reaction, he said, was that "no sane farmer would do that to a living rice plant."

When the news of the attack was related to local farmer leaders, they were aghast. According to Boncodin, one of them, a 50-year-old man, burst into tears at the thought that so many young rice plants had been destroyed.

... if the industry pays a PhD to write it.

'Luxury' food that industrial monoculture disdains.