The actions of the Chinese leadership on this vital question of the
future of the planet’s food security are not owing to their ignorance of
the issues of the GMO project. Around the time ChemChina launched its
November bid for Syngenta, the Chinese government banned one the world’s
largest independent anti-GMO agriculture media sources, Sustainable
Pulse. Though the ban was reportedly later lifted, it makes clear
Beijing officials are very much aware of the issues around GMO. For more
than twenty years since the US first commercialized GMO crops without
independent health and safety testing by the US government, China has
blocked development of GMO in China.
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