Emphasis Preaching Journal

In the spring of 1999, Ingo Potrykus, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich, Switzerland, in collaboration with Pater Beyer of the University of Freiburg in Germany, finally developed a golden rice rich in beta-carotene, the nutrient that serves as a building block for vitamin A. For more than a decade he had dreamed of such a food that would improve the lives of millions around the world, since every year at least a million children die and 350,000 go blind from a vitamin-A deficiency.