这场争论始于2月1日，当时英格汉姆在新西兰基因改造皇家委员会面前作证，决定如何管理转基因生物。

The controversy began on 1 February, when Ingham testified before New Zealand's Royal Commission on Genetic Modification, which will determine how to regulate GM organisms.

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经过生物工程改造的棉花种植场可以生产自己的抗棉铃虫杀虫剂，而棉铃虫是造成农作物歉收的主要原因，直到今年，棉铃虫的危害都很小。

Plantings of cotton bioengineered to produce its own insecticide against bollworms, a major cause of crop failure, sustained little bollworm damage until this year.

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首先，外星人不得不将我们清除出地球，收拾我们污染后留下的烂摊子，并且改造整个生物圈使它们可以适应。

First they'd have to clear us out and then clean up our pollution mess and rework the entire biosphere to accommodate them.

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