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The financial crisis was bad, but wait until you see what's coming down the pipe from the fossil fuel industry, warns social entrepreneur Jeremy Leggett
Ingo Potrykus developed Golden Rice genetically engineered to combat blindness and death in children by supplying 60 per cent of the vitamin A they need in a typical daily helping of rice. His project has been opposed from the outset by environmental groups, a stance described this week as wicked by UK environment minister, Owen Paterson. Andy Coghlan asks the inventor of the rice what he makes of it all.