Ventria’s Biotech Rice To Be Grown In Kansas?!
Biotech crops seem to be getting a lot of bad press in last few years. One company, Ventria has developed a GM rice that produces two proteins found in breast milk and which could then be extracted and eventually sold as a drug. An application has been filed is not yet approved. The proteins would be used to treat diarrheal illnesses in children in developing countries which kills about 2 million children each year. Here’s an article from the Sacramento Bee on this.
Kansas opens arms to Ventria’s biotech rice - sacbee.com:
The company only has 18 employees and has had resistance in both California and Missouri due to concerns about GMO from other rice farmers in that state. They currently grow the rice in North Carolina and in greenhouses in California. This would allow them to expand their fields into Kansas and so far there hasn’t been local opposition. Also, Kansas has no existing rice crop so the fears of cross contamination are not there.
It should be made clear that this rice is not for human consumption. It will be collected and further processed to extract the proteins.
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