Transgenic product Company of American enter China guide the dispute

Transgenic product, Company of American, enter China guide the dispute
U.S.A. mountain Meng agricultural company sell transgenic product to China soon, this has initiated once between this company and member in environment protecting mode to dispute. Ignoring the opposition of the Chinese subsection of green peace organization recently, Meng Shan announces that will squeeze into China with the transgenic seed, as the important products of its tactics in China, it is fiercer and fiercer that this makes to dispute this.
Meng Shan began to cooperate with Chinese company in 1998, sold the transgenic cotton seed to China. Nowadays, Meng Shan cooperates with Chinese seed group, sells the corn against insecticide on the Chinese market, and plan to sell soybean and seed to Chinese peasants.
But the intersection of peace and the intersection of Chinese and subsection say peasant depend on mountain Meng unduly, because seed and insecticide all need buying from this company. " the peasants are always the victim, " This member Fang LiFeng (Fang Lifeng transliteration) Expression.
1998, China sign new variety plant protect international convention, this measure protect the intersection of Chinese and interests of Company protect the interests of the foreign corporation too. But the critic expresses these regulations forbid peasants to use the seed of the harvest last year, have produced the unnecessary waste.
The independence does not make profits to organize " Consumer's alliance " Reputable scientist member Michael Hanssen (Michael Hansen) Think such a regulation is to force peasants to buy more seeds.
Environmentalists are afraid the transgenic plant will pollinate with the non- transgenic plant each other at the same time, in this case, Meng Shan and can further control seeds of different types in the similar foreign corporation. Green peace shows the cross pollination phenomenon once took place in the rice products. A laboratory report in 2005 points out, 8 kinds found in China were while planting the transgenic rice illegally, 5 kinds come from Monsanto Company.
However, Monsanto Company claims this convention does not prevent the seed from storing, but incomes of the company are putting into while researching and developing in a large amount even more, a benefited one is still consumers and peasants finally. This company has claimed to never force the peasants of China to purchase seeds firmly.
"No matter biotechnology products or ordinary seed, the peasants all have a choice space bought, "Shan spokesman John Meng. Mu Best Kang (John Combest) Expression. "Our products are only one of many kinds of choices. "
New Jersey of U.S.A. sets up Karl and Perry, agricultural expert of China (Carl Pray) of the university It claim whether it is of storing seed it is in issue one of propositions falses,because of according to rules and regulations of China, seed and half of the rice seeds of corn of 99% do not allow to be stored. He says, the peasants of China have already been used to purchasing seeds, no matter transgenic or ordinary seed every year.
Another question attracting people's attention is, whether the transgenic seed really resists the insecticide like what the company declares. Stanford University result of study for 2008 say ordinary seed take peasant spray 3.7 time insecticidal to estimate season while being every on average, the transgenic seed only needs once not to even need.
But the intersection of American and the intersection of national academy of sciences and the intersection of Ministry of Agriculture and former the intersection of director and the intersection of Charles and groups of Crook (Charles Benbrook) Think, in fact peasants need to spray more insecticide after using three years. The result is: Within 9 years, the demand for the insecticide has increased by 122 million pounds.
So far, China only sanctions using the transgenic cotton seed, further understands other like products at the same time. Risk that transgenic product bring probably include irritated response, and opposition person afraid also can lead to the fact unknown long-term influence to human body and animal.
Meanwhile, Chinese Government is supervising the national transgenic seed to research and develop too, before 2004, the country has invested 199 million dollars for this. According to Stamford's report, popularizing the transgenic rice in an all-round way will bring the income of 4,200 million dollars for China's economy.
Monsanto Company is stepping up the investment in China, and plan to run the new research institute in China. Have, mean mountain Meng make get the intersection of reliance and this Company product, peasant of U.S.A., already, but Perry expresses such a situation will not take place in China, and the transgenic products nowadays popularized have been all already very ripe.
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