Greenpeace, together with local farmers, successfully obtained a court-ordered ban on the genetically modified “Golden Corn”, despite the lack of scientific evidence showing it to be harmful. Some in the scientific community even go so far as to predict that the ban will lead to the deaths of more children.

Robin McKie writes in »A catastrophe: Greenpeace blocks planting of lifesaving Golden Rice« for theguardian.com

Many scientists, however, say there is no evidence that Golden Rice is in any way dangerous. More to the point, they argue that it is a lifesaver.

There’s a whiff of lobbying in the air.

The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.