Golden rice, which is rice that has been genetically engineered to contain very high levels of beta-carotene (a precursor to vitamin A), is now officially approved as safe to grow and eat in the Philippines. This will hopefully help reduce illness, blindness, and death in children from vitamin-A deficiency, which is a big problem in the Philippines. Golden rice has been developed as a non-profit humanitarian project.
Organisations such as Greenpeace, of course, have been lobbying vigorously against this. In effect, to prevent a GM crop from succeeding, Greenpeace and friends are prepared to sacrifice the lives, health and livelihood of poor Third World children. For a change, in this GMO story, the evil one isn't Monsanto.
(Also posted to Facebook.)