But a very real
danger exists that this ruling might inform other actions by the judiciary in the Phillipines, and that has
direct implications for «Golden Rice», a species of rice modified
to include beta carotene, which could help supply vitamin A
to the 190 million
children and 19 million pregnant women in 122 countries who suffer vitamin A deficiency (VAD), a type of malnutrition that kills 1 — 2 million people a year and causes 500,000 cases of irreversible blindness.