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by mhb 4996 days ago
Golden rice is an example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice

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That's the most common rhetoric example used in science circles.

In real world, if those 670,000 people can't get enough food to get the basic nutrients, if they won't die from vitamine A deficiency, they will die of something else.

The problem of starvation is of social nature, not technological one. There's plenty of technology to save lots of people in those countries, as they're decades behind.