Do You Eat Genetic Engineering Wheat?

by: Takeshi

Original Souraces:
1) Japan and South Korea Bar U.S. Wheat Imports
2) Prices rop after discovery of Monsanto rogue wheat

 

      According to today’s post of the New York Times, Japan and South Korea stopped importing wheat from the United States, and the European Union encouraged its 27 states to increase testing. After that, the government of the United States revealed that a genetic strain of engineered wheat which was for sell was never found in wheat growing in an Oregon field.Thought the Department of Agriculture stated that there would be no risk concerning health, governments in Asia and Europe rapidly behaved to have some kinds of limits in order not to allow the wheat to come in.

      Last year, South Korea imported almost half of its total wheat of five million tons from the United States. The last Friday, South Korea expressed that it would better to suspend purchases until tests on shipments were clearly performed. By the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, the results of the tests would be ensured in the first week of June. The European Union has a “zero tolerance” approach to the crops which are modified genetically, and the European Union suggested that if the result of the test about shipment is bad, they would not be sold the wheat. The European Union wanted to show “further information and reassurance” from Washington.The biggest exporter of wheat in the world is undoubtedly the United States. While genetically engineered grains like corns and soybeans are grown, the grains are mainly consumed by livestock.  On the other hands, wheat is consumed directly by people. Japan and Mexico are ones of the biggest countries to import American wheat. The European Union, mostly Spain, also imports more than one million tons of American wheat each year.

      In my opinion, I can agree with the policy of Europe and Asian countries. When it comes to human lives, food is surely one of the most important things. If the cereal which you eat every morning contains some sorts of bad factor which came from genetically engineered grains, do you want to keep to eating it? Even if the amounts of the some factors are so minute that they do not seriously harm your body, can you overlook the fact that you will eat something bad for your health in daily? Furthermore, parents probably need to pay attention to their children’s health. I can admit that there are too nervous atmosphere toward food, but it is impossible too careful of your rest of life and it is not too late to restart to import the wheat from the America after a strict test has done.