The Chinese government has been rolling out statements and public events in support of GMOs, writes Wall Street Journal reporter Chuin-wei Yap. In response to a possible food crisis, the government may be readying the public for domestic production of GMOs, going as far as hosting taste tests of foods made with Golden Rice.
[The Ministry of Agriculture] put out anextensive question-and-answer essay on its website, aimed at rebutting a series of recent anti-GMO screeds published in the media. The ministry took aim – not for the first time – at an essay published in the nationalist daily Global Times by Peng Guangqian, a People’s Liberation Army major general who warned that it would be strategic foolishness to allow the U.S. to threaten China’s food security by nurturing the Middle Kingdom’s dependence on American genetically modified corn exports. The ministry also identified other media articles, including in the daily China Business News, that it said “revived rumors claiming GMO food causes cancer and affects fertility and again raised panic among people over GMO techniques.”
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