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On December 1st, a conference in the Ministry of Agriculture was quietly ended quietly. The official did not publish the content of the meeting, and the participants also also silently. But the shareholders have made a strong reaction. The next day, a stock of a "Feng Liancai Industry" is bound. "Some people have to make a fortune." A industry insider said. It is a strong information that stimulates the stockholders: "China will become the world's first country in the world." "" Feng Lianyai ", is called" China's genetically modified rice first share " .
Can China have a recent commercialization of genetically modified rice, and this conference plays a pivotal role. At the meeting, there were more than 50 scientists and the Ministry of Agriculture of the National Agricultural GM Safety Committee, and the commercial planting of the GM rice was discussed.
This decision will be approved by the Ministry of Agriculture in the near future, China's largest rice production and consumer countries in the world will become the world's first commercial planting genetically modified rice.
In 1999, after China's commercial cultivation of genetically modified cotton, no re-approval of any genetically modified crop entered commercial planting. Now, many scientists believe that China's cautious attitude has changed. This meeting may become a turning point for China to plant transgenic rice.
If it is approved, it means that many Chinese will be eaten in the future, rather than traditional rice, this is the first time in the world.
"The world will vibrate." A long-term concern of the genetic crop said. According to the exclusive news of this newspaper, at the meeting, the anti-white leaf disease transgenic rice, the researcher of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, has been supported by several other transgenic rice compared to several other genetically modified rice. Now, the results of the meeting have been reported to the Agriculture Department.
At this time, one of the largest environmental organizations in the world revealed this newspaper, some transgenic scientists mixed scientific research and private weight, if genetically modified rice is commercialized, and it is not what they claim. "Country" and "farmers", but these scientists himself.
Is there any health risk: a stupid problem?
Not long ago, a suggestion drafted by 16 academicians and other experts and was handed over to the leadership of the State Council. These experts include the academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Zhang Qi, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Policy Research Center, Huang Ji. Zhang Qima is a genetically modified scientist. This Beijing meeting discussed his transgenic rice variety. And Huang Ji, has been vigorously calling for commercialization of genetically modified crops in recent years.
This report of this "proposal for my country's transgenic crop research and industrialization development strategy believes that genetically modified rice has completed the various safety evaluation procedures and experimental links required for commercial production, and there is no safety risk, which has area Conditions of sexual commodity production should quickly approve commercial production.
On December 1, a report was published in Beijing, "green peace", called "China's genetically modified rice to health and environmental risk". This report was accomplished by Dr. Su Maijie, two scientific advisers, British, Britain.
According to the report, the following issues have not been resolved in the GM food safety assessment: will the transgenic do not bring damage to the human body? Will genetically do not cause toxic or sensitized substances in a gene product? In terms of environmental and agricultural economies, the report believes that there will be a negative impact on the pollution of the headache, wild rice genetic resources.
Shi Pengxiang is "Green Peace" project officials in China. In the past few years, he has been calling on the public to take more cautious attitudes to genetically modified foods. He asked to those transgenic scientists: "You say that genetically modified food is safe, then in your experiment, let the mouse have been harmless for 3 months, can you make people harmless 50 years?"
GMHE RENG Rongrong Answer: "Lenin said, a stupid person, 100 smart people can't answer." Je Shirong is a researcher of Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and one of his transgenic rice is participating in commercial planting applications. He returned: "I want to ask those opponents. How do he answer things after decades? Scientific thinking is safe in the existing level, is safe. Scientific is dynamic, saying that few decades Things. But if there is a problem later, the science will solve it. "
He raised an example: This is like a car just invented, Europe has a country that the car speed is too fast, not safe, so legislation prohibits it. However, the car still appeared, and it became a major vehicle. Going back, that kind of legislation is stupid.
He likes a lot of transgenic scientists, likes to use such a statement: So far, all transgenic foods that have been submitted by scientific evaluation and government departments are safe, and there is no example of transgenic food poisoning or medical accidents. Moreover, there is no food for food, including food products produced in conventional breeding technology.
But Shi Pengxiang did not agree with this statement. He said that there is no transgenic crop in the world, like transgenic rice, will become the main food of human beings. The safety of previous transgenic soybeans and transgenic tomatoes can not prove that transgenic rice is also safe.
The researcher of Xue Dayuan also disagreed with Jest Rong's statement. As a major technical support expert in the State Environmental Protection Administration, he has been involved in the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and the Division of the Biological Diversity Convention and the Biosafety Protocol. He said: "Since you can't prove that transgenic rice will not cause harm to the human body from science, you should establish precautions. This is the internationally available prevention principle."
In addition to the safety of use, some ecologists oppose transgenic rice reasons are also worried that it will destroy the precious rice base of China, but Jestiro does not recognize this statement. He said: "We have environmental safety reports, and when approved, China took careful attitude, a province, a province, ensuring that the transgenic rice variety is not outstanding."
However, there are different conclusions as the opposition of Schuda. He went to Hebei Province and Anhui Province in 2002 and 2003, and founded the cotton field in the field, and found that the transgenic cotton variety management was confused. Although the State Council has promulgated the "Regulations on Agricultural Transgenic Biosafety Management", the Ministry of Agriculture issued the "Measures for the Administration of Agricultural GM Safety Assessment", which strictly regulates the environmental release and commercial production of genetically modified organisms. However, these regulations have not been strictly implemented. Due to the promotion of the seed companies and research units to promote their respective transgenic anti-insectica cotton, the anti-insects cotton seeds from all over the country will have a five-flowers, intricate. There are 50-100 sources of anti-inductive cotton seeds in Anhui, and there are more than 30 transgenic insect-proof cotton varieties, including Mengshan, USA, and even a village, and even a village. Some varieties have no names, and it is the commission of research units, which have not passed the national security assessment.
Xue Dan believes that rice management is inevitably not chaos like cotton. The strengthening management of scientists can be completely empty.
Xue Dan emphasized that he does not oppose the transgenic technology, but pay more attention to risk assessment. "The safety and management issues are not solved before, and those scientists are eager to commercial production?" He issued a question.
Photo: Hani women working in rice fields
What is the driving force of commercial production?
If the debate is only around the security and management, it is still a relatively easy solution. Scientists who support genetically modified rice production often focus on their views here. Huang Ji, director of the Agricultural Policy Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, repeatedly emphasized that large-scale planting transgenic rice, not only increased the income of farmers, but the amount of pesticide decreased, the environment can also be improved. Planting genetically modified rice meets national interests, is the unanimous statement of transgenic scientists. However, opposition perspective into these genetically modified rice scientists, even their money bags. The main technical support expert of the State Environmental Protection Administration is pointed out that there are other motivations in this issue: 1. The research results of scientists need to be promoted and benefit. Second, for many years, the national science and technology departments have invested huge in genetically modified research, and hundreds of units in the country study transgenic. In addition to genetically modified cotton, only transgenic rice projects are close to maturity. In the past few years, there is only input, no output, great pressure, and urgent results, therefore urgently wants to commercialize as soon as possible.
The green peace organization pointed out that planting transgenic crops, the greatest benefit is not farmers, but scientists and biocides. GM technology has patents, scientists and biocons to master patents, will gain huge commercial interests. Taking Giant, US Monsanto, the Giant, USA, is an example. In 2001, there were more than 90% of the total planting area of Global transgenic crops for Menshan's products. There is only one transgenic soybean variety in the world. All the transgenic crops on the market are protected by patents, which means that farmers have to pay patent fees for seeds, and they cannot reserve seeds, and they need to purchase seeds to seed companies every year.
"Green Peace" believes that the same thing will happen to China. This example has occurred in the previous year's commercially cultivated transgenic cotton.
"Green Peace" believes that in the promoter of the commercial production of genetically modified rice, it seems to see the shadow of the International Interest Group. If China can open the door of commercially cultivation of genetically modified rice, then the US transgenic seeds will continue to enter China. "Since you can grow genetically modified rice, why can't you grow genetically modified soy?" Moreover, due to dominoes, other countries, including agricultural countries, will also open the US portal.
On September 2, the researcher of the State Council Development Research Center pointed out that China's soybean industry should pay attention to avoid "Latinage" traps. He raised an example: a banner of a Bio Company in the United States In the first few years of invented genetic soybeans, a banner of "using advanced biotechnology to help poor countries to develop food production", free of South America. Soybean seeds. When the farmers in these countries have become accustomed to sowing transgenic soybeans, the American Biocurities also said that farmers who want to continue to sow transgenic soybeans in the future must pay the "property rights tax" to the company. At this time, everyone discovered that the land that sowing the transgenic soybeans can no longer re-plant the traditional soybean crops. These countries have completely caught the traps set by American Bioca.
Wu Kong Ming, a researcher of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said: "There are many organizations hope that China has stepped out. This has political forces, there is a big interest group, and the side is influenced. Therefore, this is just a scientific problem, but development It is highly integrated, and the national decision-making layer is paying attention to it. "
Scientist's role conflict?
So, if genetically modified rice is commercialization, is there any private point?
Shi Pengxiang believes that the speed of the "Feng Liancai Industry" on December 2nd provides an interesting specimen. This company has released an announcement: "The Company decided to establish a new cultivation of China University Fengle Biotechnology Co., Ltd., China Academy of Sciences, China Academy of Sciences, and research on the development of anti-transgenic hybrid rice varieties."
What is the first to get rich in commercial cultivation of genetically modified rice? "It is the company and the company behind them." Shi Peng said.
Such examples have existed in China. Shenzhen Chuang Century GM Technology Co., Ltd. is a private joint-stock enterprise with a patent of China's transgenic cotton. Patent Holder Guo Sanfa is a researcher of the Biotechnology Institute of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He has a patent stock, which enables the Biotechnology Institute and himself with this registered capital of 80 million yuan. The person in charge of a Genesis Company told this newspaper that Guo Sanfeng himself accounts for 6.6%. After recently transferring some of the equity, he still has 5% of the shares. At present, 4 million yuan. "Of course, actually, far more." The person in charge said.
Prior to this, Guo Sanfeng had critically criticized green peace: "They don't understand genetic engineering, and they don't consider farmers' death." Now, "green peace" criticized transgenic scientists: they care about the "national interest" and "national interest" and "Farmers' interest", maybe they care more about their wallet.
"Green Peace" In the survey, it also found that genetically modified scientists and some intricate interests of supporters.
Huang Jibei, a researcher, Agricultural Policy Research Center, a Chinese Academy of Sciences, a GM Rice, his wife is a staff member of the Biotechnology Institute of GMS, while at the same time at the Genesis GM Co., Ltd.
If the Huangji appeal, the genetically modified rice commercialization is successful, then Jest Rong is one of the beneficiaries. The lady and his own benefits are beneficial, and it is not allowed to have some association.
In this regard, Huang Ji told this newspaper that most of his support for genetically modified articles were written in 1999 to 2001, and his lady was only participating in the company in 2001.
And a scientist recalled that many of the affected enthusiasm of the yellow-blown genes were published in 2001. This is in place with Huang's statement.
"Green Peace In order to oppose the transgenic rice, it is very ridiculous." Huang Ji said.
Huang Ji said that he has also submitted a report, puts forward the company such as "Genesis" should not work sole: "Scientists create a company, but also scientists, and commercial interests, it is not good."
For this point, green peace is completely consent, but Shi Pengxiang said: "According to this logic, the yellow wife should I avoid it?"
Jest Rong is a variety of people. He is a genetically modified scientist, a member of the Agricultural GM Biosafety Committee, is also a chief scientist and director of the Genesis company, and has commercial interests. Now, he applies to the commercial production of genetically modified rice to the Security Committee.
Moreover, he applied for transgenic rice variety, and the GM Biosafety Office of the Ministry of Agriculture entrusted Peng Yong sent to the Environmental Impact Assessment. According to the green and peaceful survey, Jashe has issued a research partner for many years. Je Shirong said to this newspaper that he wrote an article with Peng Yun, refuting the "Green Peace" statement of "GMB will pollute the environment". "What is wrong?" He asked.
His emotionally refuted: "This is a green and peaceful. I am a member of the Security Committee, but I avoid it, don't participate in discussions. Again, can I have any private gain?"
Shi Pengxiang suggested: "After the commercial production of genetically modified rice, if the genetic scientist can guarantee that the first, it will not set up their own company, sell the seed high price to farmers. Second, not selling patented high prices to the company, Patent fees will not be charged while selling each seed to farmers, then, green peace is not saying. "
"Green Peace" is a strong question, Wu Kongming, a researcher of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, is: "They believe that the technology will be monopolized by large multinational companies. However, China's transgenic technology is basically the country, and abroad Different. "However, Je Shi Rong's anti-whippermia transgenic rice, its patent rights are not to be Chinese. On December 8, Je Shi Rong told this newspaper that he was approved by the University of California's University Davis branch by the United States. His research partners in the United States are located in the International Tropical Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratory of California. According to a green peaceful investigation, the main goal of this laboratory is to promote biotechnology in developing countries. US GM Giant Monsanto is one of their partners. The next question is that if Jashe's turn-based rice is approved by rice, will Americans will pay patent fees for Chinese farmers in the future? On December 8, in the telephone interview with Jashe, Jest Rongrong did not want to answer this question, and finally said: "That is a commercial promotion, concrete talk."
China's scientists often conduct "nationalism" to express "nationalism", saying that the development of the country's transgenic technology will break the monopoly of foreign companies.
"Green Peace" denies this statement. Shi Pengxiang said: "Those scientists have also said, 'To build China's own Mengshan'. From the example of genetically modified cotton, they have become Menshan, which will become Chinese, will monopolize the seeds, their relationship with farmers, and Mengshan There is no difference in relationship with farmers. "
Moreover, he said: "China's situation will be even worse than Mengshan. Because foreign companies are developed with their own money. And we use the national money, the products developed have been exclusively monopolized by scientists. Finally, The public's money has become a private interest. "
"Green Peace" proposed that genetically modified rice is not completely solved in scientific problems, and there are many vulnerabilities in management. As scientists responsible for the people, they should be more careful.
Is there a normal academic discussion?
A scientist told this newspaper, 3 years ago, the Ministry of Agriculture held a meeting to seek opinions on agricultural transgenic management methods. Some people put forward management issues such as strict genetically modified food logo, and the results were besieged by four or five transgenic scientists.
"They attacked others' weapons to say that others' don't understand! '" Xue Dan said. There is no academic discussion atmosphere, only the persistent people, slowly, others can't speak.
In the interview, the food safety experts in the Security Committee found, most of them are reluctant to talk. The environmentally friendly experts told this newspaper that after generating production of genetically modified rice, there must be an impact on the environment, but some results did not dare to announce. However, he is not willing to reveal his name. "Let's have to eat later." A biologist even said.
Xue Dan believes that the discussion of transgenic rice is not normal. "The opposition is very weak, because scientists who have held risk assessments are unwilling to make objections by others, they are discovered, and they have found problems. Everyone is a group and gas. Once I passed, I was through, I was very big. And scientists who engage in risk assessment do not lose what, so it is not everyone who can do it. "
Xue Dan is a very little banner that highlights risk assessment and risk management, cautiously conducts commercial production. He said that according to the normal procedure, even if it got a security certificate, it is necessary to carry out regional planting tests for two years. "But those people want to have a little early, and now the safety certificate has not been got, I have started trying."
Moreover, the 58-person National Agricultural GM Biosafety Committee, which is responsible for distribution of transgenic security certificates, two-thirds are genetically modified scientists, and many people involved are applicable to patents and applicants, environmental protection and food safety members. Less, only a few people. So, is this a fair? However, he believes that the manager of the Ministry of Agriculture is still relatively unscrupulous, and it has been cautious and hopes some arguments. "It's too little to argue now."
For your own staple food will be changed, most of China is not informed. Members of the Security Committee, Wu Kongimin, the researcher of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, to this explanation: "What should I do? Do you want the whole people? The knowledge background of ordinary people is not the same."
And Shi Pengxiang said: "This logic is too extreme. We did not ask the whole people to make a decision, but your scientific report can be disclosed. Your report will not be public, but not to other scientists. We want a informed system, not The whole people are resolved. "
Shi Pengxiang believes that if the general public does not understand genetically modified technology, it is not necessary to participate in the transgenic decision, only the scientists in that field evaluate their own products, which will cause scientist hegemony.
On December 7th, a staff member of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Agriculture, told this newspaper: "The results of this meeting have not come yet, and there are some programs to go." But some signs have shown that transgenic scientists seem to be occupied this time. In the wind. Jashe's anti-pathogenic rice has been supported by most people. But this is not a controversial.
On December 8, a rice scientist who did not want to be named: "For leaf blight, traditional breeding technology has been successfully resolved, and it is very convenient to solve it. Why do you have to use unknown risk transgenic technology? "
According to the internal news obtained, most of this meeting supports the development of anti-pathogenic rice for commercial production. But this is not the final decision, still needs to be discussed by the class joint meeting. They will decide whether the Chinese eats the first transgenic rice in the world. GM is blocked in the United States
--- Professor Du Lin Sinsketi, interview with "Green Peace" Science
On December 1, the green peace organization announced a report to the media in Beijing, "China's genetically modified rice to health and environmental risk". This report was completed by two British scientists.
On November 30th, as a scientific consultant with green peace, Professor Du Lin Sindinski came to Beijing from the United States and explained this report to the media. On the afternoon, she accepted the report in the Green Peaceful Beijing Office. Du Lin Sindinski served as a global environmental political professor in Atlantic University, Maine, USA, in the past 15 years, she has been committed to sustainable agriculture and genetic engineering safety, while international trade agreements , Intellectual property and biological security are advocated and appeal.
Ecologist's pressure
Reporter: On the issue of genetically modified food, the average person considers that the US support, the EU against, China is in the intersection. So, in the United States, is people who have already fully accepted GM food?
Du Lin Scriprski: Scientists are basically divided into two-school, and a part is a molecular biology, biotechnology field, and they study to develop transgenic foods. Another party is mainly an ecologist, and they are reserved and criticized to transgenic food. However, at more than ten years ago, research institutions such as universities put a lot of pressure on ecologists, making them difficult to make sounds. But now, ecologists have more and more dare to speak, and the sound is getting bigger and bigger, and they find that they have more and more.
Reporter: Why is the university to put pressure on ecologists?
Du Lin Sindinsky: Because university gets less and less money from the government, more and more dependent on Bio companies provide research funds, so university does not want their scientists to have too many bio companies. Criticism. In addition, in college, the research funds in biotechnology research is quite, the influence of molecular biologists in college, much more than ecologists. To talk about this problem, you can't get rid of political factors behind science. In recent years, American agricultural chemical companies have been screwed together with people in biotechnology, such as Mengshan, USA, originally a pesticide company, now transferred into biotechnology companies. Such a large interest group has considerable influence on the US government's agricultural policies. Such interest groups are not the benefits of farmers, but how to expand their profits.
Reporter: You have been criticizing "Patent for Life", which is believed that patented biologists and biotechnology companies have become "life pirates", and the resources shared by human beings become private and enterprises. Is this legal stipulates an important role in the development of transgenic technology?
Du Lin Sindinsky: This is a key reason for the development of GM. In 1980, "Diamont's" Diamondvs.chakrabarty), the US Supreme Court ruled that a bacterial organism that can digest oil can be a patent product. This decision establishes a creature that can become a precedent for patent products. Since then, LifeIndustry has begun patented control of microbial, gene, cells, organs, embryos and other genetic resources and transgenic animal and plant varieties, which is "patent to life".
This judgment has a huge impact on the US. Many large enterprises who do agricultural chemicals began to penetrate seed companies, so they can get patents, and the farmers must plant seeds, and they don't leave seeds themselves.
The scientific research in the university has also been greatly affected. In the past, scientists were not bad in college, but don't dream becoming a millionaire. But now it's different, and biotrist can have patents, set up their own companies, or sell patents to others, becoming a millionaire. This interest is driven to play an important role in research on genetically modified technology.
The United States has no main grain for transgenic commercial planting
Reporter: Currently in the United States, there is no main food crop for genetically modified commercialization?
Du Lin Sindinski: There is no main grain for transgenic commercial planting. The US large-scale planting is just soy, corn, rape, cotton and papaya, is not the staple food of humanity, and soybean and corn are mainly used for feed. American food, there is indeed part of genetically modified food, but a dotted transgenic soybean oil, corn flour, a whole bread in front of you, a large plate of pasta is all genetically modified food, giving people feel completely different .
Wheat is the main food of Americans and Canadians. Meng Shandu Company applied to the US government and the Canadian government, and the commercial planting of genetically modified wheat, but was strongly opposed by the Peasant Association. The peasant group issued a public letter and requested Monsanto to withdraw the application. Because farmers are clear, the genetically modified wheat does not have overseas markets, the EU and Japan will refuse imported transgenic wheat and turn to other import sources. The Canadian government saw the opposition sound in China, plus environmental risk considerations, poorly decisions on the application. Monsanto believes that if it is dismissed by a national government in such an important country, it is extremely unfavorable. So, in the first half of this year, they took the initiative to withdraw their application from Canada and the US government.
Reporter: So, in the United States, GM foods also encountered great resistance?
Du Lin Sindinsky: Yes, the GM company has been counterattack, and the strength of counterattack is getting bigger and bigger. In this year, California had three counties in the past, decided to prohibit planting genetic crops in their own counties. This is from Europe. In some places in Europe, local residents strongly oppose transgenic foods, scratch their area as "non-genetically modified pure land", and now this approach has also passed into the United States, and will continue to spread. There is a US company to make a field trial of medicinal genetically modified rice in California, which is objected by local farmers, and has been kicked by the peasants and turned to Missouri. Now, California has been in contact with Missouri, let them be alert to the behavior of this company. Reporter: Is the US transgenic scientist and a genetically modified bio company, is it very hoped to see China's transgenic rice can commercialize?
Du Lin Sindinsky: That's of course. In the past few years, these people often take the example of Chinese planting genetic cotton to promote everywhere, saying that developing countries have benefited from genetically modified cotton. If China is commercially cultivated to generate rice, it will be their strong propaganda weapons. Further, after the commercial planting application for genetically modified wheat, there is no main grain that is transgenic food. They hope to see that there is a transgenic crop as the main grain.
At present, because rice seed market is relatively scattered, foreign companies are still difficult to get direct benefits from the China rice species market, but the eyes of large enterprises are long-term, from the application for genetically modified wheat, the United States Biotechnology companies are afraid that they have been launched, and they have been opposed by farmers and governments. Therefore, they are very happy to see China's scientists to promote commercial production of genetically modified rice, by Chinese scientists themselves to take risks. Once commercial planting is successful, these large foreign biotechnology companies will refer to this industry, and they can monopolize seed markets through a large number of Chinese bio companies with patent rights.
Safety risks of genetically modified rice
Through genetically modified technology, scientists can transplant a gene from one organism to another organism to make receptor organisms some special traits. For example, scientists transplant the gene of Arctic fish to tomatoes, so that tomatoes can be resistant to cold; transplant the human biological hormone gene to the squid, so that the carp can grow faster; transplant the soil microorganisms to rice body Including rice can be insecting, it becomes transgenic rice.
For the transgenic crop, long-term debate is mainly concentrated in health risks and environmental pollution risks. According to the information provided by "Green Peace", the International Consumer Association (China Consumer Association is a member of its subsidiary): "There is no government or the United Nations organization to claim that the transgenic food is completely safe." So, the joint will request countries Government and international organizations stop the cultivation of new varieties of transgenic crops and launch market until the safety assessment of genetically modified crops is completed.
Green Peace Project official Shi Pengxiang said that the argument that supports genetically modified foods believe that genetically modified crops have been safely tested in the launch of nutrients before the market, so they are equally safe with conventional food. However, these tests are basically feeding their retained mice with transgenic rice and natural rice, respectively, and compare results in a short period of time (such as three months). However, human beings have a year-round food, "I have no problem for 1 month, but who knows for 10 years, 50 years, 100 years?" He said.
In terms of environmental pollution, according to green peaceful provision, the recent American ecological society confirms the serious negative impact of transgenic crops to environmental. It includes that a transgenic crop itself may have weeds, enabling the amount of pesticide usage; genetically modified crops can be exchanged between cultivars or wild plants to spread through pollen or wild species, and enable the exogenous gene to drift into a similar species, Thereby destroying crop genetic diversity; transgenic crops may lead to an increase in field non-target pests, resulting in new pests and diseases.
The National Environmental Protection Administration Nanjing Environmental Science Research Institute Xue Dayuan is a well-known expert in biodiversity, transgenic biological safety. He said: "GM rice will threaten China's rice species resources." GM rice may flow through the gene flow to cultivate rice, weed Rice and wild rice transfer genes, endanger the genetic integrity, genetic diversity and survival capacity of these cultivars or wild species, cause pollution on existing traditional cultivated water rice. Once gene pollution occurs, Chinese traditional rice resources treasures will be severely damaged.
Green peace organization project official Shi Pengxiang said that similar genetic pollution has occurred in Mexico, Mexico is the originth and genetic diversity center of corn.
