Transgenic Soybeans Hit Domestic Soybeans
By the impact of imported genetically modified soybeans, the first half of Heilongjiang Province, non-genetically modified oil mills continue to “start that loss” situation. Heilongjiang Province, deputy secretary-general of the soybean association Wang Xiaoyu introduction, due to non-GM soybean procurement costs are high, its oil rate, meal rate and imports of transgenic soybeans are basically the same, so the processing of non-GM soybeans in Heilongjiang Province, almost all the enterprises are losing money.
“The first half of the imported crushing most manufacturers are losing money, only a small part of the money, the domestic loss of some more.” Yongan futures agricultural researcher Wang Zhongwei said on Treasure Island Finance, “China’s soybean protection policy is essentially a domestic soybean and foreign GM soybean confrontation, our national soybean production is about 12 million tons, imports of about 70 million tons per year. The cost and price of GMO soybeans is very obvious, and non-GMO domestic soybeans are at a disadvantage.”
Domestic soybeans can not resist the impact of genetically modified soybeans, resulting in the planting area has been reduced, from the Heilongjiang region, in 2009, Heilongjiang Province, the soybean planting area of 60.117 million acres, and since then a few years were down to 53.22 million acres, 50.8 million acres, 39.96 million acres in 2013 was shrinking to 31.05 million acres. 4 years, the cumulative area of planting of soybeans in Heilongjiang Province fell by nearly In four years, the cumulative decline in soybean acreage in Heilongjiang Province, nearly 30 million mu, almost half, and the rate of decline there is a clear trend to accelerate.
In this regard, the general public naturally do not know the dilemma faced by domestic soybeans, and are not clear about their own soybean oil (5954,70.00,1.19%) is not genetically modified soybeans pressed and made. Some media reported that the logo of genetically modified food often appears in the least conspicuous place. This also shows that the status of GM food is very embarrassing, and also shows that although GM soybeans continue to squeeze the living space of domestic soybeans, non-GM oil can become a kind of advertisement.
Advertisements for non-GMO cooking oils can be found in many places, such as bus stops, where advertisements for non-GMO cooking oils are often seen. Obviously, there is a line between GM and non-GM, and many people have a negative attitude towards GM foods, so non-GM cooking oils are just the right way to capture the public’s mentality.
Anti-GMO: Genetically Modified Crops Are Full of Hidden Dangers
Wang Zhongwei said to Treasure Island Finance, domestic soybean about 25% or so for pressing, the rest used for food, and the country’s previous storage is also mainly for non-GM soybeans, and GM soybean imports are mainly used for pressing, the production of oil and soybean meal (2910, 4.00, 0.14%).
He also said that the gene exists in the protein, genetically modified soybean crushing, the production of soybean meal containing protein, used as feed, feed pigs and other birds, these animals eat genetically modified soybean meal, people eat these birds, who knows what will happen? Whether there is harm is not yet known.
Anti-GMO people are not a few, July 25, China Development Strategy Research Society Cultural Strategy Committee hosted by the Yunnan University of Finance and Economics Research Center for Social and Economic Behavior of the first “development and environmental security – 2014 Food Safety and Sustainable Agriculture Forum” was held in Beijing. More than 30 experts, scholars and farmers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and other countries expressed their views on genetically modified crops.
Dr. Irmakova, a Russian expert, said that Russian researchers have found that female rats whose feed is supplemented with GM soybeans have a high mortality rate among their pups. A Danish pig farmer Ebbo Pedersen said that before 2011, he had been in the pig feed to add low-priced GM soy, but the pigs ate the feed will have diarrhea symptoms; some sows abortion rate is high; more serious is the high rate of deformity of piglets. Subsequently, they replaced the GMO soybeans in the feed with non-GMO natural soybeans. The problems that plagued them improved markedly.
An anonymous scholar said that genetically modified foods have been facing some hidden dangers, such as toxicity, the artificial refinement and addition of genes may achieve certain effects that people want to achieve at the same time, but also increase and accumulate trace toxins in the food. Another example is the problem of allergic reactions, where people who are allergic to a food sometimes develop an allergy to a food to which they were not previously allergic. There are also nutritional issues, resistance, and environmental threats. All of these are the hardest problems faced by GM foods.
Taking environmental threats as an example, when GM soybeans are planted on a large scale, there will be an increase in the amount of herbicides used, which will eventually affect the soil and aquatic ecosystems. When glyphosate rolls into the soil and enters the groundwater, it will have a toxic effect on the aquatic ecosystem if the water temperature rises and the pH value exceeds 7.5.
Pro-GMO: Will Eating Pork Turn You Into a Pig?
Despite all the problems with GM soybeans, especially under the anti-GMO crusade, GM soybeans seem to be a street rat and very harmful. However, if the harm is so great, China imports a large number of, and for pressing and difficult to explain clearly, why soybean oil to a large number of GM soybean pressing, which can not be used in insufficient production to excuse.
Wang Zhongwei said to Treasure Island Finance, GM soybeans in general can not be directly consumed, as for the GM soybean soybean oil is safe to press out is not pure soybean oil, soybean oil by a variety of fatty acids, in general, pure soybean oil, its composition does not contain DNA and protein.
He also said that, from an ecological point of view, glyphosate-resistant soybeans become a superweed concerns in fact unnecessary, because soybeans can only be resistant to glyphosate, a herbicide, and can not be resistant to other herbicides, genetically modified soybeans to become a weed may not be different from the traditional soybeans, and at the same time can be herbicide-resistant crops are not limited to genetically modified soybeans.
In addition, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, one of the founders of China’s food toxicology discipline Chen Junshi has said that genetic modification is a modern biotechnology, the foreign genes into the original things. In fact, the emergence of any new variety of agriculture must be the result of genetic changes, including hybrid rice. All the food we eat has genes in it, and there is no distinction between genes and GMOs when they are digested in the stomach. It is impossible for genes to be integrated into the human body. Will people become pigs if they eat pork?
There are different versions of the GMO hazardous statement in different parts of the world, but all of them are targeted at what the local people fear the most. For example, Africans are most afraid of AIDS. China’s rumors, mostly focused on cancer and infertility.
China Agricultural University [microblogging] School of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering Dean Prof. Luo Yunbo believes that this is because of the Chinese culture, “The greatest unfilial is to have no offspring”, so the words can be used to cut off the children and grandchildren of the Chinese people’s most sensitive and most fragile nerves.
