Vol 6 Chapter 2993: The key to unlocking the future of agriculture

Chapter 2994 The key to unlocking future agriculture

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“In addition to rapid population growth, human diet is also changing subtly.

As the world's demand for high-quality protein, mainly meat, eggs and milk, is also increasing day by day, the proportion of meat, milk and eggs in the food structure is also constantly increasing.

Livestock and poultry are currently the most important and best source of meat, milk and eggs. Whether they are livestock and poultry used to provide meat, or livestock and poultry for milk and eggs, they require a large amount of grain to be raised.

The current conversion rate of grain to meat is about 10 to 20 percent on average. In other words, we consume ten kilograms of grain to obtain about one kilogram of meat, milk and eggs. This conversion rate is too low.

Although people have been trying to improve the conversion rate between grain and meat, progress has been slow. So this means that we need to grow more food to feed these livestock and poultry for human use.

With such a huge demand for food, it is obviously not possible to rely on traditional technology, and only genetically modified technology and gene editing technology can be applied. Only these two technologies can help us significantly increase crop yields to meet human needs.

Although there are still some problems with transgenic technology and genetic technology, I think it is only a matter of time before they are opened up and accepted. "

"Besides, although there are many problems with these two technologies, after decades of development and experimental observation, it has been found that crops that have undergone genetic modification do not seem to have much impact on the natural ecological environment, and they are also harmful to our human health. There was no threat.

Although people's acceptance is still relatively low now, I believe it's not far away from their true acceptance. "

“In fact, many of the things we eat now contain genetically modified crop ingredients, and probably only a small number of people who have very high requirements for material life and have good living conditions have not been exposed to it.

Many restaurants on the market now actually use these ingredients in order to control costs. Haven’t we eaten in these restaurants or eaten in them? "

“In addition, most of the meat we currently hold, except for some high-end meat, is slaughtered from livestock raised on soybeans and corn grown using genetically modified technology.

Why, because of cost. Genetically modified crops have lower costs because of their high yields and strong resistance to pests and diseases. This is undoubtedly the best choice for all farmers. "

Speaking of this, Wu Hao paused for a moment, then faced everyone's gaze and said: "So for the vast majority of people, whether we accept it or not, we are actually being forced to accept it, but no one has exposed it. This layer of window paper may have been adopted by default.

So why can't we accept these drought-tolerant pasture varieties developed using transgenic and gene-editing technologies?

Could it be that what comes from abroad is fine, but not what we produce domestically? Grain is fine, but not these pastures.

As mentioned earlier, compared to these concentrated feeds, the meat quality of cattle and sheep raised on fresh pasture is better. And because it is produced in China, all aspects are strictly monitored to ensure the quality and safety of these meats and ensure that everyone can eat with confidence. "