Genetically modified crops should expand the scope of pilot planting, and one stone has stirred up a thousand waves, which can be said to have once again detonated the circle of public opinion. Despite all the discussions, this kind of thing is difficult to avoid, and in a sense, it can even be considered the general trend.
As soon as genetically modified food is mentioned, many people immediately stand up and criticize it, and they can't wait to make it disappear completely. But this is not possible. Why? If you look at the size of our country's population, if you look at the growth of the world's population, do you think there is a better solution?
Take our country as an example, using 10 percent of the world's arable land to feed 1.4 billion people, which is a huge achievement that is unique in the history of the world. The most crucial factor in the fact that New China has been able to achieve such unparalleled achievements in the world is actually to maximize grain production.
One of the most critical technologies to increase food production is cross-breeding. The most typical example of this is the world-famous father of hybrid rice - Yuan Longping. It can be said that if it were not for Yuan Longping, the world would not be what it is now, and it can even be said that the world's population may not be the scale it is now. It is precisely because of this that Yuan Longping has been sincerely thanked by people all over the world!
This reminds me of one thing, to tell you the truth, I have had a question since I was a child, that is, in the old society, there were not many Chinese, and it can be said that the land was vast and sparsely populated, so how could they often go hungry? It should be said that the per capita cultivated land area at that time was much more than now! In this case, famine will occur in all dynasties and dynasties, and it has not become a strange thing!
I once asked a few elders about this issue, and when they told me, I probably understood what was going on. They told me that in the past, on the one hand, they relied on the sky for food, and even if there was water to irrigate the land, there would not be much food for the varieties of crops in the past. To be specific, in the past, the yield of three or four hundred catties per acre of land was considered high. Now, good guys, the yield per mu is thousands of catties, and that is not of the same magnitude.
It's just that in the past, it was just cross-breeding, no matter how you did it, at least it was a category, and it didn't go beyond the scope of the same species. This would also increase food production and largely meet the needs of the explosive population growth. But today, the population is still growing, and it seems that relying solely on cross-breeding is a bit inadequate.
Yes, if every country in the world had a sense of responsibility for the benefit of the whole world like us, for example, if they engaged in family planning like us, it is estimated that there would be no genetically modified food now. Here's the problem, we can do family planning, people don't care about that, and everyone has seen it. That being the case, continuing to find ways to increase food production is the only viable solution.
Then it is in this situation that genetically modified foods can be said to have come into being, because doing so can increase food production and meet the needs of a growing population. If cross-breeding solved the famine of the past, then GM is a last resort to prevent its recurrence. There is no need to be afraid, because it is useless to be afraid, to catch up with this era, as an ordinary person, there is no choice but to adapt.
I just bought a barrel of soybean oil, and when I got it back, I found out that it was genetically modified soybeans again. But you say I threw it away? I'm definitely not going to do that anyway, just don't see it, what should I do.
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