Great Chinese Famine

What can you say about what's driving that? What's in the Chinese psyche today? that leads it to go to that path as opposed to the textbook path?

Like, you know, in the 50s and 60s, they had the Great Famine.

They had, you know, some huge big economic disasters.

So I think especially that generation, I mean, Xi Jinping himself is a Cultural Revolution generation leader.

No, that's a great question.

So there was a study that was published in Nature about the Great Chinese Famine, where they did a study of the descendants of the Great Chinese Famine, and they found that the rate of Diabetes and hyperglycemia was double that of the general population that had not been famine exposed.

So these are children who were exposed, you know, perhaps in utero.

or maybe an early childhood who grew up in the famine.

And because they're too young right now, they don't know for sure what the rate of diabetes is because that's generally happening, you know, 40 to 50 years of age.

So they're not seeing that yet, but it's very striking that they're already affected when they never had any direct exposure.

So that's just a great Chinese famine.

On top of that, they have something called DNA methylation, which is basically like a scar or almost like a sign that you have an epigenetic effect.

most other countries have imposed embargoes for political or domestic production.

In the 1950s, you remember this, Prime Minister Diefenbaker refused to join the U.S. embargo of grain to China while China was going through the Great Famine.

We have a history, fairly unique globally, of being a reliable supplier in terms of not cutting off food for political reasons.

So with the Americans, we have to assure that once again, we don't fall into the trap at our detriment and to the Americans' benefit.