{"id":31785,"date":"2014-03-05T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:44:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:44:17","slug":"6785-former-tv-star-criticises-china-s-secrecy-over-gm-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/food\/6785-former-tv-star-criticises-china-s-secrecy-over-gm-crops\/","title":{"rendered":"Former TV star criticises China&#8217;s secrecy over GM crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]-->  <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n \n  Normal\n  0\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  false\n  false\n  false\n  \n  EN-GB\n  JA\n  X-NONE\n  \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n  \n  \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n   \n  \n<\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]-->  <!--[if gte mso 10]>\n\n\n<style>\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\ntable.MsoNormalTable\n\t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tline-height:115%;\n\tfont-size:11.0pt;}\n<\/style>\n\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<p>The Chinese agricultural ministry has been criticised for its secretive approach to information about genetically modified  organisms (GMO) on the first day of China&rsquo;s &lsquo;Lianghui&rsquo;, the annual meetings of China&rsquo;s top legislature. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The (agricultural) authorities tell us consumers whatever they want us to know and hide whatever information they do not want us to know,&rdquo; said Cui Yongyuan, a former host of a popular CCTV talk show and delegate to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cppcc.gov.cn\/zxww\/zxyw\/home\/\">Chinese People&rsquo;s Political Consultative Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that GMOs have been illegally cultivated in at least 25 provinces across China, adding that he would publish a report on the issue by the end of this year. He told <a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.bjnews.com.cn\/html\/2014-03\/04\/content_497803.htm?div=-1\"><em>Beijing News<\/em><\/a> that Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi and Jilin were among the provinces most affected by illegal GM planting and suggested that &ldquo;some people should be held responsible for this matter.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have discussed the issue of illegal planting practices with the press many times before,&rdquo; the outspoken talk show host said. &ldquo;Now I want an answer from the agriculture ministry on whether these illegal planting practices exist.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Cui said he would submit a motion on the regulation of GMOs to the &#8216;Lianghui&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Wang Mengshu, an academic at the Chinese Academy of Engineering and representative of China&rsquo;s top legislature, the National People&rsquo;s Congress, threw his weight behind Cui&rsquo;s appeal, also submitting a motion urging that &ldquo;China stop importing GM crops or GMO varieties&rdquo; until consensus had been reached on their safety.<\/p>\n<p>GM crops have long been a focus of controversy in China. The agricultural ministry&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/blog\/6120-China-s-GM-soybean-imports-stir-up-controversy\/en\">decision<\/a> last June to import three new varieties of GM soybean triggered a public outcry. In October, leading researcher Zhang Qifa&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/blog\/6442-Should-government-bypass-public-opposition-to-GM-rice-\/en\">assertion<\/a> that public opposition should not constrain commercialisation of GM rice also stirred debate on safety and regulation of the food  sector.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV personality and political delegate Cui Yongyuan is pressing China&#8217;s  agricultural ministry to publish details about illegal GM cultivation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1815,"featured_media":57087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[763],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-31785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO 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