Yuan Longping: I never said that genetic modification affects fertility

Core Tip: Many online media have relayed articles and wrote awesomely: “Yuan Longping: Genetically modified foods or affecting fertility, the people are not mice.” Yuan Longping clarified that “this is completely misinterpreting what I mean! I have not said anything like this.” Yuan Longping exclusively entrusted Times Weekly to relay his views to the public: I have not changed my view on genetic modification – GM research should be active and application needs careful.

On March 13th, many online media have forwarded an article (click to watch the movie and TV works “Black Fox” and “White Snake Tales”). The headline was animated and wrote: “Yuan Longping: Genetically modified food or affecting childbearing, people are not mice. ". Yuan Longping enjoys a lofty position in the breeding industry in China, and has always been careful about it. Therefore, this article immediately attracted widespread attention from the domestic media.

When the Times Weekly reporter asked Yuan Longping to verify the matter, he clarified: “This is completely misinterpreting what I mean! I have not said anything like this.” Yuan Longping exclusively commissioned Times Weekly to relay his views to the public:

Regarding the advantages and disadvantages of genetically modified technology, the reversal faction and the factionalist faction have performed at one end and have been fighting for many years.

On February 21st this year, the State Council Legislative Affairs Office clothed China’s first "Food Law (Draft for Soliciting Opinions)" and attracted wide media and public attention, especially the reference to the second paragraph of Article 12 on genetically modified food crops: "Transgenic The scientific research, experimentation, production, sales, import and export of grain seeds shall comply with the relevant national regulations. No unit or individual may arbitrarily apply genetically modified technologies on major grain varieties, and this has become the focus of external attention and controversy.

Major National Committee member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and General Secretary Luo Jun of the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences, during an interview with reporters during the "two sessions" this year, said: "We should attach great importance to national biosafety issues, guard against the rapid spread of genetically modified species and foreign intervention. The Chinese vaccine production process is wary of enemy countries using genetically modified species and special vaccines as weapons, and launching new strategic attacks against the Chinese population."
On March 13th, many websites reprinted an article titled “Yuan Longping: Genetically Modified Food or Affecting Fertility, People Are Not White Rats” and Yuan Longping, who has always been a “centrist” self-reliant in the GM dispute, was pushed to public opinion. Windy wave.

"Isn't it pulling eggs? I didn't mean that at all. It completely misinterpreted what I meant. It was a completely misleading report. Actually, it's a matter of opinion. I never changed my point of view. I don't know the media. When the issue was reported, it changed.” On the afternoon of March 13, when Yuan Longping heard the headline of the online news that was read by the secretary Xin Yee, he immediately retaliated.

"Some people want to use Teacher Yuan's mouth to speak"

"I can repeat what he said to you. Professor Yuan has always been this point of view: Research should be positive. You must study GM things. If you do not study, you will fall behind others. However, the application in production must be We must be cautious.” Xin Yezheng was also a little excited. She told the Times Weekly reporter that there were many reporters on the day to ask this question. She felt very strange. Why did another rumor come up and came to interview GM again?

On the 13th of March, a number of websites reprinted an article titled “Yuan Longping: Genetically modified food or affecting fertility, people are not mice”. At this time, Yuan Longping was still wondering whether he would go to the southern breeding base in Sanya, Hainan.

Yuan Longping said that in the article that caused the uproar, many of the contents were pieced together. Some of the content was not what he said at the time.

Yuan Longping explained: I mean, I'm willing to be a volunteer, but after all I have no fertility, will it affect the next generation and I can't confirm it. I didn't say that genetic modification will affect fertility. This kind of remark on the Internet is seriously misleading. .

There are rumors on the Internet: “Although Yuan Longping claims to be a 'centrist', he still believes that the use of genetically modified genetically modified staple foods is 'careful' without the experimental results as a basis. The mice did experiments, but can mice and humans be the same? Did they have experimental results of human consumption of GM?''

Xin Yezheng told the Times Weekly reporter: “Mr. Yuan means that the mouse is not human after all. It depends on whether genetic modification has any effect or encourages people to do experiments. Professor Yuan once said that he is willing to be the first volunteer. Whether or not genetic transformation has any influence on the third generation can not be seen now. It depends on whether the next generation has any influence. He said, 'I'm willing to volunteer, but I don't have fertility,' is what I started to eat genetically modified. Can no longer see his next generation."

Xin Yee said: “Mr. Yuan calls and encourages young people to do such an experiment. If his offspring really have no problem, then it can be proved that this genetically modified (food) is really no problem. His intention is this. But this is not To say that genetic modification affects fertility is entirely a matter of course. Teacher Yuan is very astute. When I talked about this title just now, he would retaliate against me. This is not what I meant at all. He said, 'I have no fertility and I cannot say that it affects childbearing.' '.'

Xin Yezhen expressed indignation at the media’s distorting Yuan Long Pingyu’s report: “Now the genetically modified (technology) is the transfer of a species’ species to another species. Ms. Yuan’s main practice is conventional breeding, which is a traditional breeding method. Not a genetically modified plant, not a gene from another crop, but Professor Yuan has a great reputation and should be cautious when reporting. Some people want to use Professor Yuan's mouth to speak.”

Yuan Longping stressed that his views have not changed. The views he now says are in fact the views that have been said before. They have never changed.

Transgenic research must be active and application must be prudent

Some media reports Yuan Longping once said: “From a scientific point of view, genetic modification is the direction of development. We can't generalize it. Now we turn corn genes to rice and raise the photosynthetic effect of rice. What are the problems with such genetic transformation? There is no problem at all.”

In this regard, Yuan Longping explained to Times Weekly that he was not opposed to genetic modification, but he believed that in science, there must be a positive attitude and that genetic research must be done. However, caution should be exercised in the promotion and application of the market. This is a dialectical issue.

In the afternoon of March 13, Xin Yee declined to interview a number of media. This is because she still has a fear for some media who had previously misinterpreted Yuan Longping. To her surprise, it has been a long time no one has come to talk about Yuan Longping's talk about genetic transformation. Why is there so many reporters interviewing this day? After browsing the news on the Internet, she discovered that many websites were reprinting remarks that “Yuan Longping believes that genetic modification affects fertility.”

Xin Yezheng said that she refused to be interviewed by the media without any malice, but she did not want the media to worry about Yuan Longping in this matter. After all, Yuan Longping’s main energy is still to be placed on breeding work. He does not accept media interviews because he will soon go to Sanya's breeding base. To prepare it, there is really no time.

“There were several reporters in front to ask this question. I (at that time) had not seen the article on the Internet. After you came to ask, I just saw it, so I understood why I came back and told GM. Professor Yuan is very busy, so he cannot accept the interview one by one. You just mentioned that it would be just for you to prove that Professor Yuan did not mean that. He did not say that at all. He did not express such views. ”

"To be honest, the interview is a responsible thing for him. He can't always bother him in this matter," Xin Yee said.

Hybrid rice is not genetically modified

Gu Xiulin, an economist and an expert in gene reversal, commented that Yuan Longping is only a technician and not a scientist. A set of living systems is not only those genes that are to be transferred, but also many systems that regulate these genes. Do you know the kind of DNA that you find?

There is an article in the network saying: “Yuan Longping has always believed in one sentence — there is no right to speak without investigation.” Without personal experience, there is no right to speak, so do not easily affirm or negate, and do not guess and reason, use facts. speak.'"

Sina Weibo’s Internet user “David Wesley” issued a Weibo comment that: “Fang Zhouzi criticized Yuan Longping’s “Insects do not eat, people can eat” wrote for 7 years, Yuan did not grow in the scientific literacy of genetic modification. Does each hybrid rice have 'doing voluntary experiments for young people' before it is promoted, 'does not affect fertility and the health of the next generation before it is safe?' Yuan said, 'There is no right to speak for themselves, so there is no right to speak'. What is it? Many other countries have done experiments and eaten N years, not counting?"

Fang Fang laughed at Yuan Longping: “The older people will be stubborn. However, Yuan Longping will not know that Americans have eaten genetically modified foods for more than ten years. The Americans have all had great talents.”

Due to Yuan Longping’s reputation in the breeding industry, scholars and officials from many countries will visit the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center.

Xin Yelu said: Those who engage in this line know that what we are doing is traditional breeding techniques. It is not the same thing as genetically modified technology. Liu Dehu, a genetically-modified technologist at the Center for Biotechnology Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, evaluated Yuan Longping's breeding when interviewed by the Times Weekly reporter:

"Transgenic is a phenomenon that is commonly found in nature in biology. For example, Yuan Longping's crossbreeding also involves transgenes. Think about it. A parent and a mother must crossbreed to produce the next generation. You want it to involve genetically modified If it does not, how can its offspring be mutated? If it is the same as its parents, then what kind of breeding will it do? It will use the original species directly, because it will produce mutations and produce good traits. To do breeding, to put aside what I'm doing now, to say the kind we just said, it's called not to call GM? What is the characteristic of that kind of GM, that is, how many genes it's transferred in, you don't know, What changes will happen to the offspring? Can you control? Don't know."

In this regard, Yuan Longping retorted: Hybrid rice is not a genetically modified, but the research field of transgenic crops, our country is also doing. The state is very cautious and strict about the management of genetically modified species, but these genetically modified genes are not readily available. They must be managed in accordance with the national system. If you do not do it, you will fall behind others. Research and scientific research should be positive and practical applications should be cautious.

Xin Yee revealed that we are also doing GM crops, but we haven’t applied them. Experimenting with mice is also a possibility, not to say what kind of results it will produce.

Xin Yezheng said that genetic modification is a very sensitive issue. I did not promise reporters to interview Yuan Longping's request: "But since there are so many articles on the Internet, I think it is necessary to respond and clarify."

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