Recently, a news report by the British media about cloned beef and milk entering the market caused a huge uproar in the UK, and the safety of applying high technology to food has attracted widespread public attention.บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11249/
Cloned food, organic food, and genetically modified food have successively made their way onto the dining table. This sounds like a plot from a science fiction novel, but with the rapid development of technology, these scenarios have already become reality.บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11249/
Can cloned food be eaten?บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11249/
Since the birth of Dolly the sheep, the first cloned sheep, in the UK in 1996, cloning technology has no longer been unfamiliar to us.บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11249/
It was not until the UK revealed the news that cloned beef had reached the dining table that the public realized the safety of cloned food.บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11249/
Netizen Wenzhu told reporters: “I wouldn't dare eat it. I feel there are many uncertain factors, and there is too much artificial intervention. I don't like it. What if there is some gene mutation that harms the body?” White-collar worker Peng Jin held the opposite attitude. She told reporters: “If it really exists, I would dare to eat it, just to try something new, but it also depends on what the specific item is.”บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11249/
The attitudes of many netizens and Shenyang citizens also reflect the current focus of debate over cloned food: Can it be eaten or not? Regarding this issue, the reporter interviewed Professor Luo Guangbin from the College of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine at Shenyang Agricultural University. Professor Luo introduced to the reporter: “Cloned beef is merely obtained by extracting a single cell from a cow, using artificial methods to culture it into an embryo, and then implanting the embryo into the uterus of a cow to conceive a new individual. Its genes are the same as normal beef; it is simply reproduced asexually and is no different from ordinary beef. As a food, it poses no danger to life.”บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11249/
On the second day after the British media report was broadcast, the reporter made concentrated visits to large supermarkets in Shenyang such as Tesco and Vanguard, as well as some farmers“ markets, and found that many beef vendors expressed opposition to cloned beef reaching the dining table. Ms. Zhang, who runs a beef business at a farmers” market near Ningshan Road in Huanggu District, Shenyang, told the reporter: "If there really is cloned beef, I wouldn't stock it, because there is still no news saying cloned beef is problem-free. Only some experts are saying it can be eaten. I must be responsible to consumers."บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11249/
During the interviews, the reporter learned that the beef currently sold in major supermarkets in Shenyang all comes from well-known meat enterprises such as Lufeng and Haoyue. When the reporter asked whether cloned beef would be put on shelves if it appeared in China, a staff member decisively told the reporter that this would not be done. According to industry insiders, at present, China's cloned beef and some cloned products are still in the research stage. Only a few scientific research teams are able to carry out cloning, and achieving industrialization and entering the market still requires time.บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11249/
Regarding the safety of cloned food, China has not yet issued relevant standards. When leaders of relevant departments meet, they mention the issue of standards, but there is still a distance before formal discussion. Some experts have said: no food safety risks have yet been found in cloned products. As long as the animal itself is healthy, the milk it produces should also be healthy. Zhang Sining, associate researcher at the Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences, believes that since the appearance of cloned beef in the UK market has triggered panic among ordinary people, the government should, through extensive research, introduce relevant supporting regulations as soon as possible to fill the gap in this field.บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11249/
[Source: Huashang Morning Post]บทความมาจากFOFCC-http://fofcc.org.cn/th/11249/