Chapter 897: The Problem of Genes

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Ziqi's respect for Fan Wuxian and Shen Manhua and others. It really comes from the heart.

Genetically modified technology is still a relatively new topic in China, in fact, in this regard, the country is basically poor and white, the lack of biotechnology experts in China, but also the lack of experts in genetically modified technology, although the current domestic media are also mentioning genetically modified technology or genetically modified food from time to time, but most of the time is hearsay, citing the statements and information of foreigners, and their own research on this area is indeed relatively blank.

And Fan Wuji's Fan Investment Group was able to invest great manpower and material resources in research in this field with the strength of a private company, in addition to saying that Fan Wuxian is wealthy, it can only be said that he has a sense of responsibility.

Letting Chinese eat safe food is something everyone wants to do, but there are only a few people who have the ability to do it, and even fewer people who have the ability to do it and are willing to spend their own money to do it.

Therefore, Ziqi can't help but admire Fan Wuxian and others, they do have a very strong sense of social responsibility.

"I admit this, especially Miss Shen Manhua, the hard work she has put into this area is very huge." Fan Wuzhi fully affirmed this, "These technicians and experts led by her have built this research center from scratch, and have achieved a number of very advanced technological achievements in just three years. This is something I didn't expect at first. ”

Fan Wuxian didn't say this casually, although he had already considered that he should do a good job in the research of genetically modified crops while planting green natural foods in a large area, but because he couldn't take care of things, he didn't make any effort in this regard, but Shen Manhua mentioned that he did it.

From the source of personnel and research projects and other aspects, Shen Manhua has carried out a very careful layout, the research building has also been put into use in a short period of time, the initial results have been carried out in the local test planting, is doing long-term follow-up testing of its toxicity, the use of mice and some large livestock for testing, to determine how much impact of genetically modified food on animals?

But this matter is a long-term detection process, not ten or even twenty years, I am afraid that it will not be possible to draw a very trustworthy conclusion, even if a conclusion is reached 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 in the eyes of ordinary people, but it is also possible that the impact on the entire human population is huge, and may change the living state of the entire human race.

Although it is impossible to know whether to survive or destroy now, once genetically modified food enters social life, it is equivalent to a Pandora's box being opened, and no one can say what exactly is released.

Although Fan Wuxian can talk to Ziqi, in fact, he is not very clear about the construction of the Northeast planting base, and he is the biggest concern about this research center. That is, a special fund of 500 million yuan was approved for Shen Manhua, and I don't know anything else, and even this research center building is the first time I have seen it.

After Shen Manhua led them to the general control center, he could selectively see the work in each laboratory from the screen of the monitor, and looked at more than a dozen laboratories in a row, everyone was busy, rows of test tubes stored in various extracts, seeds bred by soilless cultivation technology in some laboratories, and ray lamps used to simulate the effect of sunlight, etc., all indicating that the work here is being carried out in an orderly manner.

"Actually, it's just a research institute, and the real lab area is closed, and in one of our greenhouses there are multiple isolation zones where the various crops under study are tightly segregated." Shen Manhua explained.

"Why quarantine? Is it harmful? Ziqi asked with some curiosity.

"It's hard to say what happens with genetic changes, so we have to be extra cautious, and this part of the land is also under strict control to prevent the spread of genes from having uncontrollable effects on other plant populations." A staff member who followed Shen Manhua replied on his behalf.

Everyone visited the general control center, and then went down to several of the laboratories to visit the field, and finally had some intuitive understanding of the work of the laboratory personnel. I also listened to some introductions of the researchers to the American Meng Sandu Company, and I couldn't help but sigh.

When it comes to genetically modified technology, it is impossible to avoid the American Monsanto Company, which is represented by genetically modified technology, and only the American Monsanto Company has created the status of a genetically modified empire.

At present, the company's business scope includes global seed and gene business, animal husbandry, plant protection products, etc. Today, in the global genetically modified crop planting industry, Monsanto occupies more than 70% of the global market share of a variety of crop seeds, 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, and most of the seeds that are being used in the world are resistant to insects and herbicides are also from Monsanto or authorized by it.

Monsanto invests more than $2 million a day in technology research and development, and its arch-rival Greenpeace has admitted that no multinational company in the world can compete with Monsanto in agricultural genetically modified technology.

Although Monsanto has already promoted a range of products in China, such as Decca corn, bolling cotton, Decca sunflower, and Roundup herbicides, Monsanto is accelerating its move towards Chinese agriculture. Since 1996, when China introduced Monsanto's genetically modified insect-resistant cotton, China's genetically modified experts have not stopped cooperating and competing with it.

Since 1996, more than ninety percent of China's genetically modified insect-resistant cotton market has been occupied by Monsanto, but this situation has been 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 a large number of domestic genetically modified cotton seeds.

However, in other fields, the American Mengsandu Company still occupies an absolute dominant position.

Although Greenpeace believes that the greatest benefit from planting genetically modified crops is not farmers, but scientists and biological companies, but taking Monsanto, a giant in global genetically modified agriculture, as an example, more than ninety percent of the total planting area of genetically modified crops in the world is now Monsanto's products. All genetically modified crops on the market are protected by patents, which means that farmers pay royalties for their seeds and cannot keep their own seeds, and need to buy seeds from seed companies every year.

However, there are also people in China who believe that although genetically modified seeds are much more expensive than conventional seeds, at least in China. Farmers have benefited the most, because they have drastically reduced the cost of pesticides and labor, taking the rice in the field test as an example, more than 60 percent of the plots planted with genetically modified rice have not applied pesticides, and nearly 90 percent of the genetically modified rice fields have not applied pesticides to control borers.

Farmers were able to work in the cities after reducing their farm work, which greatly increased their incomes.

Consumers can also get some benefits from cheaper agricultural products, and the example of cotton farmers seems to confirm the claims of these people, the price of a pound of genetically modified cotton seeds is ten or even dozens of times higher than the price of conventional cotton seeds, but after all, the cost of seeds is much less than the money spent on buying pesticides and manual spraying, which is no wonder that cotton farmers are choosing to plant genetically modified cotton.

"These things are really unclear for a while." After hearing these words, Ziqi also felt quite big, and she didn't know whether to believe that side of the statement.

Fan Wuxian smiled and said, "It's actually very simple, it's nothing more than a conflict of interests, even if genetically modified food is harmless, it is impossible to give up our food power and let it be in the hands of the Americans, which is very dangerous, what we have to do is mainly around these points." ”

"Doesn't the government see the danger in this regard?" Ziqi raised her own questions.

In her opinion. Since there are uncertain safety risks in genetically modified food, the government should be more cautious about this matter, how can it casually allow foreign products to enter the Chinese market? Once genetically modified foods or crops are harmful, the chain reaction will plunge the whole of China into an ecological crisis, or even face extinction.

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

Since the existing biological chain is the result of hundreds of millions of years of evolution in nature, once this natural biological chain is changed. What consequences it will bring to mankind is completely unknown, a choice that does not know whether to go to heaven or hell, a choice that cannot be turned back even if a mistake is discovered, a choice that sends a nation to the point of no return, a choice of life and death that does not know whether it will be able to wake up tomorrow morning.

Therefore, although genetically modified products have been used in agriculture for several years, no country, even the extremely poor African countries, dare to use genetically modified products as national food, and risk the lives and descendants of all its citizens.

The United States, which has invented and cultivated the most genetically modified products, also requires special and conspicuous identification of genetically modified products to prevent people who do not know the truth from eating genetically modified products by mistake.

In the United States and other Western countries, genetically modified products are used by agricultural capitalists and biocapitalists to make money, and are mainly sold to the poor and produced as food for the poor. Including those wealthy people engaged in the research, production and sale of genetically modified products, along with 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 genetically modified products are not very harmful.

Although for the time being, the impact of genetically modified food on human beings is indeed only an unknown quantity, but the promotion of genetically modified food according to the current commercialization model of the market economy is bound to turn genetically modified food into food for the poor, and genetically modified food into a biological gap between the rich and the poor.

As soon as this opening is opened, all genetic technology will be applied between the rich and the poor according to this model, and then the application of genetic technology will become a tool of class exploitation and class oppression, just like the application of machinery and equipment at the beginning.

On the one hand, through genetically modified foods, the vast majority of the population is becoming more and more animalized, and on the other hand, a small number of wealthy people are becoming more and more humane through the enjoyment of natural foods and the modification of their own genetic maps. As a result, the men of the elite are getting stronger, the women are more beautiful, and the children are getting smarter. The vast majority of ordinary people have become inferior races like pigs, horses, cattle and sheep, reforming the superior and inferior races of society on the basis of genetic technology, and formatting the evolution of human civilization for thousands of years to zero.

To put it simply, a poor person can still hope to become rich after hard work, and a monkey cannot become rich no matter how hard he struggles, and this difference is determined by biological genes.

The capitalist commercial application of gene technology will bring terrible consequences to the entire human society, and even shocked some Western politicians with a conscience, such as US President Clinton and British Prime Minister John Major, who have tried to use the powerful state administrative power of the United States and Britain to prevent the application of gene technology for patents and prevent the commercial application of gene products from causing irreparable human disasters, such as turning the difference between the rich and the poor into a difference between species, so that gene technology has become the common wealth of human society from the beginning.

However, because genetically modified products and gene technology have become the focus of US capital investment and have become an important means for the US-led capital group to control world wealth and the destiny of mankind, which is impossible for a small US president and an even smaller British prime minister to stop, the motion of President Clinton and Prime Minister Major disappeared silently without even making a loud noise.

But due to some special reasons, China has become the first guinea pig in the promotion of genetically modified products by international capital.

"There are certain historical reasons why there is such a situation." Fan Wuxi touched his nose and replied with some uncertainty, "Of course, I'm also hearsay, I say it in vain, you listen to it, don't take it seriously." ”

"What the hell?" At this moment, not only Ziqi, but also Shen Manhua and others were also interested in Fan Wuxi.

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