This is an answer to my Q&A in the headline, originally published on 2017-09-12 19:36. Originally I didn't want to go here, I am now dizzy, blood pressure 204 in the morning, after taking medicine is still about 170. It's family inherited, there's no way. Heart rate is also very fast. I would love to lie down, isn't it nice to lie down and sleep? What is the point of this kind of nosy? Scientists don't pay you. But I'm going to stick with another one. You may be scolded by some people. Denigration is inevitable. I don't care anymore.
The biggest and most absurd rumor in history is that GMOs are harmful.
For example, it is said that genetically modified technology is the biological and chemical weapon of the United States to exterminate the Chinese. It is also said that genetically modified technology was invented by aliens and used to specifically occupy the earth. There is also saying that Americans do not eat genetically modified organisms themselves, and only give Chinese to eat. There is also nonsense that the safety of GMOs is not determined.
I don't know why such childish, ridiculous, ridiculous remarks appear on the land of China, which are simply detrimental to our national character.
Please see what kind of people are against GMOs, see screenshot:
What kind of people are against GMOs?
This group of professional anti-GMO people, they think - people who have eaten snakes, people will become snakes. And everywhere to promote this absurd thing. GMOs are being opposed by such a group of people.
There is also the following person, who is also openly anti-GMO:
Guo Yingsen
People who believe that "people eat snake meat, people become snakes" are anti-genetically modified.
The famous "folk science", he is also anti-GMO.
Do you understand?
So, who is supporting GMOs?
Find out for yourself. In short, they are all professionals.
The claim that genetically modified foods are "harmful" are all unfounded rumors. Anyone with reliable intelligence and a little normal thinking will not believe these nonsense, so much so that Professor Rao Yi said: If there is no video record, future generations will not believe that we have experienced such a foolish era.
Professor Rao Yi
For the rumors of genetic modification, a few points need to be stated to correct the audio-visual:
First, transgenic technology is not a technology that goes against scientific tradition, but an excellent technology that benefits mankind.
Second, so far, no case of transgenic technology has been found to endanger human health and pollute the ecological environment.
Third, transgenic technology can be beneficial to human health and the ecological environment, such as anti-cancer, nitrogen fixation, reduce the use of fertilizers, pesticides, hormones, and protect the health of farmers.
Fourth, genetically modified foods have been proved to be safe and healthy foods, and so far, all the genetically modified foods approved on the market have not found any cases that harm human health and endanger the ecological environment.
Fifth, preventing the spread of genetically modified technologies will cause hundreds of billions of dollars in economic losses each year, more than 1 million deaths, and more than 100 million people are malnourished.
Sixth, the safety of genetically modified technology and genetically modified foods has passed the scientific test of 51 years (by 2022), which is completely reliable, safe and environmentally friendly, and there is no scientific objection to the safety of genetic modification. The gradual promotion of GM technology is both a matter of course and a must.
Seventh, all the claims that genetically modified foods are harmful and carcinogenic have not been found to have a solid basis. All the experiments that said that genetically modified foods may harm human or animal health have been proved to be wrong conclusions, and the authors have all made corrections.
Eighth, all rumors about the decline in fertility of humans or animals where genetically modified crops are produced have turned out to be rumors.
Ninth, all mainstream biologists fully agree that the safety of GMOs is more safe and controllable than traditional organic farming techniques.
Tenth, behind the vast majority of anti-GMO hype events, there are interest groups to promote the waves.
The above is the article I wrote in 2017, now it is 2022, I have to add something new.
First, the mainland central government has approved the gradual implementation of the industrialization of GM this year. Do you think the party and the government will not understand? Do you think the party and the government are reliable, or are the self-media reliable?
Second, about the rumor that Americans do not eat genetically modified foods, I will do a rumor by the way, derived from the encyclopedic entry of genetically modified organisms, and the sources of the reference materials are all central media, but they are not self-media.
Mark Ash, a soybean research expert at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said U.S. genetically modified soybean production accounts for 93 percent of total U.S. soybean production. Most of it is used in the United States, where 47.2 million tons were consumed from 2012 to 2013. [16]
In 2014, Martina Newell-McGraofflin, a professor at the University of California, Davis, said that 90 percent of processed products in the United States, as well as soybeans, sugar cane, corn, etc., are genetically modified, and there are currently one trillion people eating in the United States, and another billion livestock use genetically modified crops. [120]
According to the International Agricultural Biotechnology Application Service (ISAAA), the United States is currently the largest producer of genetically modified soybeans. A 2011 study by Henry Miller, a researcher at stanford University's Hoover Institution, showed that Americans had consumed a total of 3 trillion servings of genetically modified foods in the past 10 years. [17]
According to the American Grocery Merchants Association (GMA), 75%-80% of foods in the United States contain genetically modified ingredients. The United States is the world's largest consumer of genetically modified crops, the United States has approved the industrialization of 22 kinds of genetically modified crops, planting about 1.13 billion mu of genetically modified crops every year, accounting for more than 40% of its arable land, of which corn, soybeans, cotton, sugar beets and other genetically modified varieties are planted in more than 90%. [139]
More than half of the U.S. GM corn and soybeans are consumed in the country, and 75 percent of processed foods contain GMOs. [73]
Third, about the rumors that Europeans do not eat genetically modified organisms, I have written a lot of rumors before, but today I am not in good health and dizzy, so I will not repeat them one by one, and I will add an article of "Farmers Daily" "Do Europeans and Americans eat genetically modified products?" , posted on 2022-01-18 22:14, link in:
https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1722302056617541680&wfr=spider&for=pc
The article says:
The EU imports a large number of genetically modified agricultural products every year, mainly soybeans, corn, rapeseed, sugar beets and their processed products. According to international trade statistics, the EU will account for 81% of its total soybean consumption in 2020.
Russia also allows the import of genetically modified agricultural products. Russia currently imports about 2 million tons of genetically modified soybeans a year, accounting for 40% of its domestic soybean processing. In 2020, in order to prevent a serious shortage of soybeans in the country and affect the stable development of animal husbandry, Russia issued the Government Decree on the Simplification of The Import Procedure of Genetically Modified Soybean Meal, which greatly simplifies the approval procedure for the import of genetically modified soybeans and soybean meal.
(Rumors open their mouths and debunk rumors and break their legs.) There's no way... ）
Author: Skeptical Explorer