Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130428:

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130428:14:25:00

>> tom was talking about how we developed gmos out of a profit, that's not true. there are gmos in development that can help feed the world. one of the big problems in the developing world is vitamin a deficiency. about 250 million kids don't have enough vitamin a. every year about half a million go blind because they don't have enough vitamin a in their diets and about half of those die. a long time ago when biotech was just getting started, some scientists got together and said what if we could put vitamin a in a food that everybody eats. that's rice. it take on a yellow look. normally it produces vitamin a in the leaf, now it's in the seed as well. it's in testing and hopefully in the next couple of years it will be approved. the reason it's not approved so far is because the regulatory process is incredibly complicated. >> why would this be anything other than good? the world eats rice, we put vitamin a in rice, it addresses a fund mental nutritional

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