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Chapter 577 Problems with transgenic technology

However, this matter is a long-term detection process. If there is no ten or even twenty years, I am afraid that I will not be able to draw a very trustworthy conclusion. Even if a conclusion is drawn within a few decades, it may not be correct and credible, because the impact of genetic changes on the entire biological chain is long-term.

This time may be out of reach to ordinary people, but it may also have a huge impact on the entire human population and may change the entire human survival state.

Although there is no way to know whether survival or destruction is now, once genetically modified food enters social life, it is equivalent to Pandora's box being opened, and no one can tell what it is released.

Although Jiang Feng could talk to the girls around him, in fact, he was not very clear about the construction of the Northeast planting base. His biggest concern about this research center was that he had granted Yang Shimin a special fund of 500 million yuan. He didn't know anything else, and even this work was the first time he saw it in the research center building.

After Yang Shimin brought them to the control center, he could selectively see the work in each laboratory from the monitor screen. After looking at more than a dozen laboratories, everyone was busy. Rows of test tubes store various extracts, seeds grown in soilless cultivation techniques used in some laboratories, and ray lamps used to simulate the effects of sunlight, all of which mean that the work here is in progress in an orderly manner.

"In fact, this is just a research institution. The real experimental area is closed. There are multiple isolation areas in one of our greenhouses, which are strictly isolated and controlled in various research crops." Yang Shimin explained.

"Why should I be isolated? Is it harmful?" Xiang Jin asked curiously.

"It is hard to say what will happen if gene changes. So we have to be extra cautious. This part of the land is also under strict control to prevent gene spread from causing uncontrollable impact on other plant populations." A staff member who followed Yang Shimin replied on his behalf.

Everyone visited the General Control Center, then went down to several of the laboratories to visit the field. Finally, they had some intuitive understanding of the work of the laboratory staff and listened to some introductions from the researchers about the United States Mengsandu Company. They couldn't help but sigh.

When it comes to genetically modified technology, Monsanto in the United States cannot avoid it. In the field of modern agricultural biotechnology represented by genetically modified technology, only Monsanto in the United States has created the status of a genetically modified empire.

Currently, the company's business scope includes global seed and genetic businesses, animal husbandry, plant protection products, etc. To this day, in the global genetically modified crop planting industry, Monsanto has occupied more than 70% of the global seeds of various crops, with an annual turnover of more than 10 billion US dollars, of which more than 60% of the sales revenue comes from genetically modified plant seeds. In addition, insect-resistant and herbicide-resistant seeds are being used all over the world, and most of the seeds that are also from Monsanto or authorized by it.

Monsanto invests more than two million US dollars a day in technology research and development, and its archenemy Greenpeace also admitted 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 series corn, boll cotton, Deca series sunflowers, and Roundup herbicides, Monsanto is accelerating its pace of agriculture in China. Since China introduced Monsanto GM anti-insect cotton in 1996, China's GM experts have not stopped cooperating and competing with it.

Since 1996, more than 90% of China's genetically modified insect-resistant cotton market was occupied by Monsanto. However, this situation was reversed by the Institute of Genetically modified insect-resistant cotton technology launched by Guo Sandui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Chinese cotton farmers began to use a large number of domestically produced genetically modified cotton seeds.

However, in other fields, the United States Mengsandu company still occupies an absolute advantage.

Although Greenpeace believes that the most benefit of growing genetically modified crops is not farmers, but scientists and biological companies, taking Monsanto, a giant in the global genetically modified agriculture, as an example, the total planting area of ​​genetically modified crops in the world is Monsanto. All genetically modified crops on the market are protected by patents. This means that farmers have to pay patent fees for seeds and cannot keep their own seeds. They need to purchase 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 still benefit the most because they have greatly reduced pesticides and labor costs. Taking rice tested in the field as an example, more than 60% of the plots where genetically modified rice are planted have not been applied, and nearly 90% of the genetically modified rice fields have not been applied to pesticides for treating borers.

After the farmers reduced their farm work, they could go to the city to work, which greatly increased their income.

Consumers can also gain some benefits from cheaper agricultural products. The examples of cotton farmers seem to confirm these people's statement that the price of a pound of genetically modified cotton seeds is ten times or even dozens of times higher than that of conventional cotton seeds. However, after all, the cost of seeds is much less than the money spent on purchasing pesticides and artificial spraying. This is no wonder cotton farmers choose to grow genetically modified cotton.

"These things are really hard to explain for a while."

After hearing these words, the girls felt quite impressed and didn't know which side they should believe.

Jiang Feng smiled and said, "It's actually very simple. It's just a dispute over interests. Even if genetically modified food is harmless, it is impossible to give up our food power and let it take it into the hands of Americans. This is very dangerous. What we have to do mainly revolve around these points."

"Does the government not see the harm in this regard?" Li Xiumin raised his own question.

In her opinion, since genetically modified foods have uncertain safety risks, the government should take this matter more carefully. How can we let foreign products enter the Chinese market casually? Once genetically modified foods or crops are harmful, the chain reaction caused will cause China to fall into an ecological crisis and even face a catastrophe.

The so-called genetically modified products actually create a new artificial creature through the recombination of genes between different organisms, or change the natural characteristics of the original organism through the recombination of genes between different organisms, making it a semi-artificial creature.

Since the existing biological chain is the result of the evolution of nature for billions of years, what consequences will this natural biological chain be brought to humanity once it is changed is completely an unknown, a choice that does not know whether to go to heaven or hell, a choice that cannot turn back even if it is discovered, a choice that sends a nation on a path of no return, and a life and death choice that does not know whether it 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 poor country, dares to use genetically modified products as national food and take risks with the lives and descendants of all citizens.

The United States, which invents and cultivates the most genetically modified products, also requires specialized and conscientious identification of genetically modified products to prevent people who do not know the truth from mistakenly eating genetically modified products.

In Western countries such as the United States, genetically modified products are tools used by agricultural capitalists and biological capitalists to make money. The main targets are the poor and are produced as food for the poor. Including those rich people engaged in research, production and sales of genetically modified products, as well as their children, refuse to eat genetically modified food.

Experts and scholars who have taken the money from investors and have the conditions to not eat genetically modified foods always say that panic about genetically modified products is a manifestation of ignorance, and genetically modified products do not have any major harm.

Although at present, the impact of genetically modified food on humans is indeed an unknown, promoting genetically modified foods according to the current commercialization model of the market economy will inevitably 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 to the rich and poor in this model. Then, the application of genetic technologies will become a tool for class exploitation and class oppression just like the original application of machinery and equipment.

On the one hand, through genetically modified food, the vast majority of people are developed in a more and more animal and plant-based direction. On the other hand, by enjoying natural food and modifying their own genetic map, a few rich people are developed in a more and more humanized direction. The result is that men in the elite class are becoming stronger and stronger, women are becoming more and more beautiful, and children are becoming smarter. While most ordinary people have become inferior races like pigs, horses, cattle and sheep, re-format the good and inferior races of society based on genetic technology, formatting all the evolution of human civilization for thousands of years to zero.

Simply put, a poor man still has the hope of becoming a rich man after hard work, while a monkey cannot become a rich man no matter how hard he strives. This difference is determined by biological genes.

The terrifying consequences of the capitalist application of genetic technology will bring to the entire human society, and even shocked some conscientious Western politicians. 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 the application of genetic technology from patents and prevent the commercial application of genetic products from causing irreparable human disasters, such as turning the gap between the rich and the poor into species, so that genetic technology has become the common wealth of human society from the beginning.

However, since genetically modified products and genetic technologies have become the focus of US capital investment and have become an important means for the US-led capital group to control the world's wealth and the fate of mankind. This is impossible for a small US president and a smaller British prime minister to stop it. Therefore, the motions of President Clinton and Prime Minister Major disappeared silently in the parliament of the two countries without even a loud noise.
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