Catch GM beans again by the side of the road! Japanese researchers came to Taiwan for the second time to investigate and found that genetically modified soybeans sprouted.

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(by upstream and downstream reporters Cai Jiashan and Lin Xiejun / tr. by Robert Taylor)

In the torrential rain, a group of people were walking very slowly along the side of the road with umbrellas, bending down and looking for something. "this way!" The discoverer squatted down and picked up a small soybean.

These are genetically modified soybeans scattered from large trucks, appearing on the road around the oil-pressing feed factory. The person who braved the rain and led the team to conduct an investigation and carried a green "agricultural" schoolbag made in Taiwan was Junren Hachita, director of Japan's "Farmer Company Food Analysis Center" from afar.

Three years ago, Junren Bada rode a bicycle in the scorching sun to conduct a survey alone, but this time he came to Taiwan in a torrential rain after a long drought. He modestly called himself a "rain man." But this time he is no longer alone. The "Campus lunch non-Foundation" team, Tainan Xinhua Community University, Yilan Qingnong, and "upstream and downstream" reporters all joined the "land detective" campaign.

Junren Hada, director of the Farmer's Company Food Analysis Center, and Taiwanese non-governmental organizations (Photo / Tsai Jiashan)

The Farmers even Food Analysis Center is an independent non-governmental organization set up with donations from farmers and consumers to maintain family agriculture and food safety. Gather the efforts of everyone, the purchase of pesticide analysis, genetic change testing, radiation testing and other professional equipment, can be tested independently, not subject to any force. Therefore, "our research results can be trusted by everyone." Yachita Road.

He also stressed that when many problems occur, they will be divided into two groups with their own opinions. At this time, "if there is a scientific data survey, it will make the discussion more meaningful." Therefore, he believes that it is very important for both the general public and farmers to have the ability to investigate and test. In the past, farmers and even the Food Analysis Center successfully persuaded the government to amend the law because they put forward conclusive scientific evidence to investigate pesticide residues.

Let's be "land detectives" together.

The next goal of Junren Bada is to cooperate with more non-governmental organizations in Taiwan to conduct longer-distance tracking and larger-scale surveys, and to do it once in different seasons to establish systematic research results.

Junren Hachita said that many foods are genetically modified products that are almost imperceptible but exist like ghosts, while the impact of genetic changes on the human body and the environment is full of unknown and must be highly concerned. "someone has to do it."

Taiwan is already more than a decade behind Japan, so it should have made a start. Both the non-foundation team for campus lunch and Tainan Xinhua Social University said that in the future, they would consider calling on the public to form an investigation team to work together as "land detectives."

Investigation report on the rooting of ─-modified seeds captured by roadside

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