While Golden Rice is still being tested, a total of 44 GMOs have been approved by the government: 40 for direct use as food, animal feed and food processing and 4 for planting as crops. Most of these are genetically-altered corn, soybean, potato, canola, cotton, sugarbeet and alfalfa.
They have been genetically-engineered to resist pests and herbicides, delay ripening or enhance their nutritional value.
Daniel Ocampo, Sustainable Agriculture Campaigner of environment group Greenpeace, is disturbed by how “friendly” the Philippines is to GMOs despite more than 60 countries in the world, including Japan, Australia, and countries in the European Union already putting restrictions and bans on GMOs.
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