The Ministry of Agriculture responds to genetic modification and questions the world’s 4/5 population to eat

A few days ago, the Ministry of Agriculture issued the article “The same safety as genetically modified foods and non-genetically modified foods”, responding to the eight questions raised by Peng Guangqian, the deputy secretary-general of the China National Security Forum. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, genetically modified tumors and affecting fertility are all false, and 4/5 of the world's population are consuming genetically modified products.

In this regard, some experts told the reporter of the "Daily Economic News (Weibo)" that the planting area of ​​GM released by international agencies is about 170 million hectares, only about 1/10 of the world's arable land, and it is difficult to support the Ministry of Agriculture's 4/5 global population. Edible argument.

Is it as safe as traditional food?

Not long ago, the Global Times published Peng Guangqian’s article on "Generation of staple foods for eight questions". He raised doubts about the safety of genetically modified technology and drew intense attention from all walks of life. The Department of Agriculture's website issued a letter a few days ago to carry out one of these eight questions. Respond.

Lin Min, a member of the National Committee on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), said that GM foods must undergo stringent toxicity, sensitization, and teratogenic safety assessment and approval procedures before entering the market. Currently, there are no other foods that have undergone such stringent safety assessments. Non-genetically modified foods have the same safety.

The above statement once again drew extensive doubts. Peking University professor Liu Huajie issued a micro-blog. “Can't say that there is no environmental issue through the EIA project, nor can there be no environmental issue in the place where the environmental protection department has inspected and passed.” He believes that it is impossible to prove security. Evaluating the listing of genetically modified foods is as safe as traditional foods.

Lin Min said that an indisputable fact is that the global commercialization of genetically modified organisms has been applied for 17 years. The population of edible genetically modified products accounts for 4/5 of the global population. No confirmed food safety problem has yet occurred. Lin Min did not provide a global source of 4/5 population consumption of genetically modified organisms. However, according to the latest data released by ISAAA, the international agricultural biotechnology application organization, in February this year, the global acreage of genetically modified crops reached an unprecedented 170 million hectares in 2012, and the world's arable land area was approximately 1.48 billion hectares. Even if calculated based on ISAAA data, genetically modified Planting area is only about one-tenth of the world's arable land, and many of them are used as feed or processing materials.

The consumption of genetically modified foods by Americans has become a vane in the GM debate. As Lin Min said, the United States is the largest producer and consumer of GM crops in the world, and it is also the country with the longest time for GM crops. Eighty-six percent of maize grown in the United States, 93% of soybeans and more than 95% of sugar beets are GM crops.

The travel aesthetician Cao Minghua pointed out to the reporter of the “Daily Economic News” that although the GM corn and soybeans in the United States have large planting areas, they are mainly used for industrial materials, such as fuel and energy, and industrial products. The US’s genetically modified soybean oil is quite similar. Some are used as biodiesel raw materials and animal feed, but also exported to underdeveloped countries.

Scientific verification is crucial

Peng Guangqian mentioned in the eight questions, “A lot of scientists have experimented and confirmed the high correlation between genetically modified foods and dozens of diseases such as cancer and infertility. We have repeatedly warned these catastrophic consequences and scientists. Have we conducted serious analyses, objective assessments, and scientific argumentation? What are the scientific basis for our hasty introduction?”

What Peng Guangqian said was Seleni’s genetically modified test that caused a sensation in the world in 2012. In September 2012, Prof. Seralini of the University of Kane, France published a paper in the "Science and Chemical Toxicology" scientific journal. He reported the use of transgenic corn NK603 for two-year feeding studies in rats to cause tumors in rats. .

Lin Min said that the European Food Safety Authority made a final assessment that the conclusions drawn from the study lacked data support, that there were serious loopholes in the design and methods of related experiments, and that the research experiment did not comply with accepted scientific research standards.

At present, regulators around the world do not require long-term genetically modified food tests. Instead, they test the safety of the transgenics in a 90-day rat experiment. However, for the first time, the Serralini team has broken through the 90-day trial period and will test the genetically modified cycle. Prolonged to two years and concluded that GM-induced tumors.

As a result of the controversy, on June 29, the official website of the European Union issued a public notice: Appropriation of 3 million euros will be used to fund an experiment using NK603 genetically modified corn for mice for two years. Some scholars have commented that this is equivalent to the EU official fully admitting and accepting the French scholar's scientific experiments on genetically modified corn feeding mice for at least two years and put it into practice.

A few days ago, Serralini also released "You need to know about the ten things Séralini studies", and responded to outside critics. "This experiment is a chronic toxicity study - it is a well-designed, executed Appropriate research."

The response also stated that "if we believe that Séralini's research failed to prove the experimental GM food literature, then we must also recognize that the industry research on GM foods has failed to prove their safety."

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