Editing Vandana Shiva (section)

===Golden rice===
Shiva strongly opposes [[golden rice]], a breed of rice that has been genetically engineered to biosynthesise beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A. Shiva contends that Golden Rice is more harmful than beneficial in her explanation of what she calls the "Golden Rice hoax": "Unfortunately, Vitamin A rice is a hoax, and will bring further dispute to plant genetic engineering where public relations exercises seem to have replaced science in promotion of untested, unproven and unnecessary technology... This is a recipe for creating hunger and malnutrition, not solving it."<ref>{{cite web |author1=Dr. Vandana Shiva |title=THE "GOLDEN RICE" HOAX – When Public Relations replaces Science |url=http://online.sfsu.edu/rone/GEessays/goldenricehoax.html |publisher=[[San Francisco State University]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180821091432/http://online.sfsu.edu/rone/GEessays/goldenricehoax.html |archive-date=21 August 2018 |date=29 June 2000 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Adrian Dubock says that golden rice is as cheap as other rice and vitamin A deficiency is the greatest reason for blindness and causes 28% of global preschool child mortality.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/04/response-zac-goldsmith-golden-rice-gm-food No, Zac Goldsmith, golden rice is not 'evil GM'. It saves people's lives], Adrian Dubock, ''[[The Guardian]]'', 4 November 2013.</ref> Shiva has claimed that the women of Bengal grow and eat 150 greens which can do the same,<ref>[http://www.agbioworld.org/biotech-info/articles/biotech-art/chcbriefing.html Can Biotechnology Help Fight World Hunger?], CONGRESSIONAL HUNGER CENTER BIOTECH BRIEFING. Washington D.C., Capital Hill, 2012.</ref> while environmental consultant [[Patrick Moore (consultant)|Patrick Moore]] suggests that most of these 250 million children do not eat much else than a bowl of rice a day.<ref>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/by-opposing-golden-rice-greenpeace-defies-its-own-values-and-harms-children/article14742332/ By opposing Golden Rice, Greenpeace defies its own values – and harms children], ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', 15 October 2013.</ref> In the 2013 report "The economic power of the Golden Rice opposition", two economists, Wesseler and Zilberman from [[Munich University]] and the [[University of California, Berkeley]] respectively calculated that the absence of Golden Rice in India had caused the loss of over 1.4 million lives in the previous ten years.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1017/S1355770X1300065X| title = The economic power of the Golden Rice opposition| journal = Environment and Development Economics| pages = 1| year = 2014| last1 = Wesseler | first1 = J. | last2 = Zilberman | first2 = D. | volume = 19| issue = 1| s2cid = 43511056| doi-access = free| bibcode = 2014EDevE..19..724W}}</ref>