Can the Government Sell the People on GMOs?
At The New Yorker, Christina Larson looks at the Chinese public’s distrust of genetically...
genetically modified food
Minitrue: Wei Pengyuan, Army GMO Ban, QVOD Porn
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Minister Says He Eats Genetically Modified Food
Amid heated GMO politics and grain espionage debates, agricultural minister Han Changfu expressed...
The Case of the Missing Designer Seeds
After a manager at an Iowa research farm caught a group of men from China digging up the field for...
GMO Politics and Grain Espionage
Reuters reports that, since mid-November, over 600,000 tons of U.S. corn shipments have been...
China’s Genetically Modified Food Fight
Media coverage of two recent policy actions have helped to revive public fears about GMOs in a...
Ron Herring: GMO Rice in China’s Future? Navigating the Global Rift
From the Japan Focus: A recent article in Nature [1] asked provocatively: Is China ready for GM rice? The title reflects widely shared anxiety over genetic engineering in agriculture. The use of the term “GM” specifically...
Shrinking Arable Lands Jeopardizing China’s Food Security- Yingling Liu
China is losing arable land due to urban sprawl, construction, and “environmental” efforts to replant trees (produce lumber). Will China policy address an increasing reliance on imported grain (sans mercury) ? Is there a plan to increase agricultural efficiency(GMOs and/or pesticides via Stephen Johnson head of the U.S. E.P.A.)? One may think that the President […]
Ministry of Agriculture issues safety certificates for GMOs
From Xinhuanet: “China will make sure the controversial genetically modified (GMO) crops don’t cause negative impacts on the country’s bio-environment, the Ministry of Agriculture said Wednesday. The ministry on Monday awarded its first batch of safety certificates for foreign genetically modified crops used for processing purposes in China, after a two-year period of safety assessments […]
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