As we reported last summer, Big Agri pulled some maneuvers and made major inroads in China despite major opposition
from China’s people. Readers may be surprised to learn that Chinese
citizens reject the notion of GMOs but they do. In fact, there is such a demand for organic
there, that China is buying up arable land in other countries and
trumpeting health campaigns to discourage meat and dairy consumption.
Not only has this demand for better food caused food shortages there
because of their issues with pollution, but it has also created a bevy
of “fake organics” and questionable foods flooding other countries. Are we about to receive a flood of GM rice, too?
Now the FDA has essentially approved a product based on some data
turned in by Chinese researchers. It did not conduct its own
experiments. Although cultivation of this GM rice is not officially
legal, the FDA stamp of approval was meant to set the ball rolling, and
garner approval from other markets.
GlobalTimes.CN reports:
A genetically modified (GM) rice product developed by a
group of Chinese scientists has acquired the US Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) approval, the first such Chinese product allowed to
enter the US market.
However, neither China nor the US has approved mass cultivation of
the rice amid low acceptance from the Chinese public for GM food.
Huahui No.1 rice, developed by the Huazhong Agricultural University,
is genetically engineered to resist a wide range of insects, thus
reducing the use of pesticides.
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