Supporter
The advancement of research and application of genetically modified organisms is a general trend and a major development strategy for China's implementation of science and education to promote agriculture and enhance scientific and technological competitiveness.
- Vice Minister of Agriculture Wei Chaoan
The major goal of investing several billions of dollars is to industrialize and solve food security, so we should vigorously promote the industrialization of genetically modified crops.
——Department of Agriculture, Department of Rural Science and Technology, Wang Xueqin
The establishment of a special GM project is very necessary and even a bit late. China used to be the fourth largest in the world in terms of genetically modified planted area, and it has now fallen to the sixth place. Due to the fact that the middle is affected by security and international trade, the pace of development has hesitated.
- Huang Da, a researcher at the Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
With regard to potential possibilities, everyone can guess at it. But are these conjectures scientific and how high is the probability of occurrence? In the safety inspection of genetically modified foods, we must keep the same standards as conventional foods. Then, the conventionally-cultivated rice also contains a lot of foreign proteins. Is there any potential safety hazard for everyone to guess?
-- Zhu Xi, Deputy Director, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
There is no need to grow GM rice nationwide. If 1/3 or 40% of the rice is used in transgenic rice varieties, it will save the use of pesticides and completely control the outbreak of insect disasters in areas with severe insect pests.
- Wu Kongming, Director of Plant Protection Institute, China Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Transgenic technology is similar to conventional hybrid technology. Conventional hybridization technology is not a gene, but a lot of genes, and the transgene is a very accurate transfer of a certain gene, which is a more accurate and subtle transfer.
-- Huang Conlin, Associate Researcher, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences
Slow action and zero-tolerance policy for GMOs is harming EU food supply
- Danish Food Minister Ava Hansen
GM crops can increase production and help alleviate the poverty of developing countries, especially the food security problems facing India.
- Indian Minister of Agriculture Paval
Opposition party
With any uncertainty, China should not rush to the front.
—— Luo Yuannan, Director of China Food and Agriculture Project of Greenpeace
Even the United States, which actively promotes genetic modification, has not approved the certification of genetically modified foods for staple foods. How can Chinese scientists pat on the chest that there is no risk of genetic modification? The issue of the safety of genetic modification is an insurmountable obstacle to this technology, and it is also an obstacle that cannot be surpassed.
——Jiang Gaoming, Chief Scientist, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
History tells us that even if some people had “good intentions†when they did something at the beginning, some of the world’s events were “unexpected†and some of the evil consequences could not be reversed once they were formed. The emergence of biological sciences and biotechnology has given rise to further worries for mankind and calls for institutionalized checks and balances.
- Li, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
The State Council has several regulations for genetic modification, but it has not yet been officially supported by systematic and industrialized statutory laws. The adoption of genetically modified food on the table should be strictly followed by legislation.
—Professor Zhang Hongliang of the Central University for Nationalities
Life is evolving forever, and human understanding of life is far from enough. We should be cautious about things that we don't know, and if the laws of life are disrupted, the consequences will be disastrous.
——Gu Xiulin, Professor of Social and Economic Behavior Research Center, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics
Scientists have not yet reached a consensus on this issue. Many questions raised by environmental scientists have not been satisfactorily answered. The ban is a responsible way for the scientific community and society.
- India's Minister of Environment Ramesh
In fact, most geneticists do not think too much about GM crops. Otherwise, if you want to maintain a critical professional vision on the issue of genetic modification, it means that you will easily offend the company and the government and destroy the future.
- Jack Hellmann, Professor of Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of Canterbury, New Zealand