Chapter 897 Genetic Issues
12[o]423 Chapter 897 The Problem of Genes
Qi's respect for Qian Fan Wubing, Qi Manhua and others is indeed from the bottom of her heart.
Genetically modified technology is still a relatively new topic in China. In fact, the country is basically ignorant in this regard. There is a lack of biotechnology experts in the country, and there is even a lack of experts in genetically modified technology. Although the domestic media are also mentioning genetically modified technology or genetically modified from time to time. Food, but most of the time it is just hearsay, citing the opinions and information of foreigners. My own research on this area is indeed relatively blank.
As for Fan Wubing's Fan Investment Group, as a private company, it has invested a lot of manpower and material resources into research in this field. In addition to saying that Fan Wubing is wealthy, the only thing that can be said is his sense of responsibility.
Let the Chinese people eat safe food, I am afraid that everyone. Everyone wants to do it, but there are only a few people who have the ability to do it. There are even fewer people who have the ability to do it and are willing to spend their own money to do it.
Therefore, Zhang Qi cannot help but admire Fan Wubing and others. They indeed have a very strong sense of social responsibility.
"I admit this. Shen Manhua and Xiaoxu, in particular, have put in a lot of effort in this regard." Fan Wubing fully affirmed this, "The technicians and experts she led have never failed. This research center has been built and a number of very advanced technological achievements have been achieved in just three years, which I did not expect at the beginning.”
Fan Wubing didn't say this casually. Although he had already considered doing research on genetically modified crops while growing green natural foods in a large area, he couldn't take care of it because of too many things. , and didn’t put much effort into this aspect, but Shen Manhua mentioned that he did it.
Shen Manhua has made very careful arrangements in terms of personnel sources and research projects. The research building was put into use in a short period of time. The initial results have been experimentally planted in some areas. Long-term follow-up tests are being conducted on its toxicity, using mice and some large livestock. To determine the impact of genetically modified foods on animals?
But this matter is a long-term testing process. It may not take ten or even twenty years to reach a very trustworthy conclusion. Even if a conclusion is drawn within decades, it may not be correct and credible, because genetic changes have a long-term impact on the entire biological chain. This time may be out of reach for ordinary people, but there are also The impact on the entire human population may be huge, and it may change the living conditions of the entire human race.
Survival or destruction, although there is no way to know now, once genetically modified foods enter social life, it is equivalent to Pandora's box being opened, and what will be released?
No one can tell.
Although Fan Wubing could have a good conversation with Zhang Qi, in fact he didn't know much about the construction of the Northeast planting base. The biggest concern about this research center is that Shen Manhua was given a special meal of 500 million yuan. As for other things, I don't know anything about it. It is even the first time I have seen this research center building. After Shen Manhua led them to the main control center, he could selectively see the work conditions in each laboratory from the monitor screen. He saw more than a dozen laboratories in a row. Everyone was busy. Various extracts are stored in rows of test tubes. The seeds being cultivated using soilless cultivation technology in some laboratories, as well as ray lamps used to simulate the effects of sunlight, etc., all represent that here. The work is being carried out in an orderly manner.
"Actually, this is just a research institution. The real experimental area is closed. There are multiple isolation areas in one of our greenhouses, where various crops under research are strictly isolated and controlled." Shen Manhua explained .
"Why is it necessary to isolate? Is it harmful?" Fengqi asked curiously.
"Genetic changes. It's hard to say what will happen, so we have to be extra cautious. This part of the land is also under strict control to prevent the spread of genes from causing uncontrollable effects on other plant populations." Followed. A staff member of Shen Manhua answered on his behalf.
Everyone visited the main control center, and then went down to several laboratories for on-site visits. Finally, they had some intuitive understanding of the work of the laboratory personnel, and also listened to the researchers' opinions on the United States. Some of the introductions of Meng Sandu Company made me sigh a little.
When it comes to genetically modified technology, one cannot avoid the American company Monsanto. In the field of modern agricultural biotechnology represented by genetically modified technology, only the American company Monsanto has achieved the status of a genetically modified empire.
The company's current business scope includes global seed and gene business, animal husbandry, plant protection products, etc.
To this day. In the global genetically modified crop planting industry, Monsanto occupies more than 70% of the global market share of various crop seeds. Its annual turnover exceeds 10 billion US dollars, of which more than 60% of sales revenue comes from genetically modified plant seeds, and all Most of the insect-resistant and herbicide-resistant seeds used around the world also come from Monsanto or are licensed by it.
Monsanto invests more than two million dollars a day in technology research, and its arch-rival Greenpeace also admits that no multinational company in the world can compete with Monsanto in agricultural genetically modified technology.
Although Monsanto has already promoted a series of products in China, such as Deca corn, rice, cotton, Deca sunflower, and Roundup herbicide, Monsanto is accelerating its pace towards Chinese agriculture. Since China introduced Monsanto's genetically modified insect-resistant cotton in 1996, Chinese genetically modified experts have not stopped cooperating and competing with it.
Since 1996, more than 90% of China's genetically modified insect-resistant cotton technology has been occupied by Monsanto, but this situation was reversed by the introduction of genetically modified insect-resistant cotton technology by Guo Sandui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 1997, and Chinese cotton farmers began to use domestically produced genetically modified cotton seeds in large quantities.
However, in other fields, the American Monsanto still occupies an absolute dominant position.
Although Greenpeace believes that the biggest beneficiaries of planting genetically modified crops are not farmers, but scientists and biotech companies, taking the giant of genetically modified agriculture, Monsanto, as an example, more than 90% of the total planting area of genetically modified crops in the world is Monsanto's products. All the genetically modified crops on the market are protected by patents. This means that farmers have to pay for seeds, and cannot keep seeds for themselves, and need to buy seeds from seed companies every year.
However, some people in China believe that although genetically modified seeds are much more expensive than conventional seeds, at least in China, farmers are still the biggest beneficiaries, because they have greatly reduced the cost of pesticides and labor. Take rice in field trials as an example. In the plots where genetically modified rice is planted, more than 60% of the plots are not treated with pesticides, and nearly 90% of the genetically modified rice fields are not treated with pesticides to control stem borers.
After reducing farm work, farmers can also go to work in the city, which greatly increases their income.
Consumers can also benefit from cheaper agricultural products. The example of cotton farmers seems to confirm these people's claims. The price of a pound of genetically modified cotton seeds is ten or even dozens of times higher than that of conventional cotton seeds. However, the cost of seeds is much less than the money spent on purchasing pesticides and manual spraying. It is no wonder that cotton farmers are choosing to grow genetically modified cotton.
"These things are really hard to explain at the moment." After hearing these words, Zhang Qi also felt quite overwhelmed, not knowing which side to believe.
Fan Wubing smiled. "In fact, it is very simple, it is nothing more than a struggle for interests. Even if genetically modified foods are harmless, it is impossible to give up our food rights and let it be in the hands of Americans. This is very dangerous. What we have to do is mainly around these points
"Can't the government see the harm in this regard? "Zhang Qi raised her doubts.
In her opinion, since there are uncertain safety risks in genetically modified foods, the government should treat this matter more carefully. How can it allow foreign products to enter the Chinese market casually? Once genetically modified foods or crops are harmful, the chain reaction will cause the whole of China to fall into an ecological crisis, or even face a catastrophe. The so-called genetically modified products are actually a new artificial organism created by the recombination of genes between different organisms. Or by recombination of genes between different organisms, the natural characteristics of the original organisms are changed. Make it a semi-artificial organism.
Since the existing food chain is the result of billions of years of evolution of nature, once this natural food chain is changed, what consequences will it bring to mankind is completely unknown. It is a choice that you don't know whether to go to heaven or hell, and it is a choice that you can't turn back even if you find a mistake. It is a choice to send a nation on a road of no return, and it is a life-and-death choice that you don't know whether you can wake up tomorrow morning.
Therefore, although genetically modified products have been used in agriculture for several years, there is still no country, even the extremely poor African countries, that dares to use genetically modified products as a national product. Democratic food, risking the lives and descendants of all citizens.
The United States, which has the largest number of genetically modified products, also requires that genetically modified products be specially marked to prevent people who are unaware of the truth from accidentally eating genetically modified products.
In the United States and other Western countries, genetically modified products are a tool used by agricultural capitalists and biological capitalists to make money. The main sales targets are the poor and they are produced as food for the poor. Including those rich people who are engaged in the research, production and sales of genetically modified products, as well as their children, refuse to eat genetically modified foods.
Those experts and scholars who have taken the money from investors and have the conditions not to eat genetically modified foods always say that panicking about genetically modified products is a manifestation of ignorance and that genetically modified products do not have any major harm.
Although for the time being, the impact of genetically modified foods on humans is indeed still an unknown, but promoting genetically modified foods according to the current commercial model of the market economy. It is bound to turn genetically modified foods into pure food for the poor and turn genetically modified foods into a biological gap between the rich and the poor.
Once this hole is opened, all genetic technologies will be applied between the rich and the poor according to this model. Then, the application of genetic technology will become a tool of class exploitation and class oppression, just like the application of machinery and equipment in the past.
On the one hand, through genetically modified food, the vast majority of people are developing in the direction of becoming more and more animal and plant-like. On the other hand, through enjoying natural food and modifying the gene map of the bow, a few rich people are developing in the direction of becoming more and more human. The result is that the men of the elite class are becoming stronger and stronger, the women are becoming more and more beautiful, and the children are becoming more and more intelligent, while the vast majority of ordinary people have become inferior races like pigs, horses, cattle and sheep. The superior and inferior races of society are re-formed on the basis of genetic technology, and the thousands of years of human civilization evolution are all formatted to zero.
In simple terms, a poor person can still hope to become rich after hard work. But a monkey can never become rich no matter how hard it struggles. This difference is determined by biological genes.
The capitalist commercial application of genetic technology will bring terrible consequences to the entire human society, and even shocked some Western politicians with conscience. US President Clinton and British Prime Minister Major have tried to use the powerful national administrative power of the United States and Britain to prevent genetic technology from applying for patents and prevent the commercial application of genetic products from causing irreversible human disasters, such as turning the gap between rich and poor into species differences. Let genetic technology become the common wealth of human society from the beginning.
However, since genetically modified products and genetic technology have become the focus of American capital investment and an important means for the American capital group to control the world's wealth and the fate of mankind. This is something that a small American president and an even smaller British prime minister cannot stop at all, so the motion of President Clinton and Prime Minister Major disappeared silently without even a fart in the two countries' congresses.
However, due to some special reasons, China has become the first guinea pig for international capital to promote genetically modified products.
"There are certain historical reasons for the current situation. Fan Wubing touched his nose and replied uncertainly, "Of course, I heard it from others. I just said it, and you just listen to it. Don't take it seriously."
"What is it?" This time, not only Zhang Qi, but also Shen Manhua and others were aroused by Fan Wubing's interest.
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