Kenya Bans All GMO Monsanto Foods.

[newworldafro]

....I thought Africans would get suckered into the old................."you need to feed your potentially starving citizens, with this stuff"................I'm shocked?!?!

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

Wow, that's ill. Monsanto's going to try to give them hell for this shyt.

We need Obeezy to have them drones ready for thsoe scumbag Monsanto lobbyists.

 

[EQ.]

Ee mungu nguvu yetu
Illete baraka kwetu

Thats my country tho


Damn it feels good to talk about home

 

[Saka]

Show me a peer reviewed article detailing such dangers.


What did corn look like before it was engineered by selective breeding?


We can do it the long way by selective breeding, or we can directly alter the genes for traits that we need. it's your call.

here is an article: A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health

it was conducted on rats, they showed signs of toxcitity after being fed GMO strains.

Also if you watched the video all GMO imports are banned till further notice, which means till scientific studies are done that prove otherwise or foreign intervention by corporate interests.

 

[mbewane]

Props to Kenya, I wish more countries would do the same...the EU still doesn't seem to have a real firm stance on this issue smh

 

[thekingsmen]

....I thought Africans would get suckered into the old................."you need to feed your potentially starving citizens, with this stuff"................I'm shocked?!?!

African Countries have been trying hard to push this away. Some gave in, others are willing to fight.

Africa: Calling for a GMO-Free Continent | NationofChange



Africa: Calling for a GMO-Free Continent
November 26, 2012

South African smallholder farmer Motlasi Musi is not happy with the African Centre for Biosafety’s call for his country and Africa to ban the cultivation, import and export of all genetically modified maize. “I eat genetically modified maize, which I have been growing on my farm for more than seven years, and I am still alive,” he declared.

Musi, 57, a maize farmer in the Fun Valley area of Olifantsvlei, outside Johannesburg, and a beneficiary of South Africa’s Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development program, has embraced the science of biotechnology with gusto.

“What have changed are my yields and my income.” He said that he earned about 225 dollars more per hectare for his GM maize crop than he did when farming ordinary maize.

He said that he was helping reduce food insecurity in South Africa by growing and selling GM maize.

“Biotechnology has a very big role in food security,” Musi told IPS. “The climate has changed and I know that with drought-tolerant seed I have a tool to fight climate change. I cannot guarantee that the rain will come and I if plant crops which are not drought tolerant, I could get into debt and lose my farm.”

A report in April 2012 by the Climate Emergency Institute titled “The Impact of Climate Change on South Africa” said the country is experiencing a gradual, yet steady, change in climate with temperatures showing a significant increase over the last 60 years. Temperatures in South Africa are predicted to rise in costal regions by one to two degrees Celsius by 2050.

But the ACB does not believe that GMOs can deliver food security on the continent, specifically in South Africa, a leading African producer of GMOs.

The organization is behind an African Civil Society statement calling for a ban on GM maize in South Africa and on the continent, which it hopes to submit to African governments. To date 656 signatures have been collected on the online statement, including those of 160 African organizations.



“We have sent an open letter to our minister of agriculture in October to ban GM maize in South Africa,” Haidee Swanby, an officer with ACB, told IPS.

“We (South Africa) have been cultivating, importing and exporting GM crops for 14 years with absolutely no impact on food security whatsoever. In fact, a bag of mealie meal is 84 percent more expensive than it was four or five years ago due to international prices and the extensive use of maize for biofuel production.”

Swanby said there was a need to improve access to food, by addressing poverty, unemployment and issues around land tenure, service delivery, infrastructure, access to markets, and unfair global trade practices.

“Genetically modified food has never been labelled in South Africa so there is no way to know if it is causing health problems,” Swanby said, calling for a rigorous scientific study into the health implications of GM food.

“If someone is getting sick, how are they going to trace it back to GMOs when they don’t know they’re eating them? We want more science, not less!”

The ACB has a supporter in Friends of the Earth International, which is also lobbying for aGMO-free Africa.

The organization’s coordinator Nnimmo Bassey told IPS that GMOs do not deliver on the promises made by the biotechnology industry. He argued that hunger in Africa is used as an excuse to contaminate and erode genetic diversity on the continent.



Bassey said that GM crops are neither more nutritious nor better yielding nor use fewer pesticides and herbicides. And he said they are unsafe for humans and for the environment.

“It is all about market colonization,” Bassey told IPS. “GM crops would neither produce food security nor meet nutrition deficits. The way forward is food sovereignty – Africans must determine what crops are suitable culturally and environmentally. Up to 80 percent of our food needs are met by smallholder farmers. These people need support and inputs for integrated agro-ecological crop management. Africa should ideally be a GMO-free continent.

Friends of the Earth International cites failed GMO experiments in Africa with Bt cotton (a strain of cotton that had the Bacillus thuringiensis bacterium inserted into its genetic code) in Burkina Faso and South Africa where they had been touted as the crops to pull smallholder farmers out of poverty.

Global developer and supplier of plant genetics, including hybrid seed, DuPont Pioneer, said that the effect of switching from saved seed to hybrid seed is dramatic.

The company’s vice president responsible for Asia, Africa and China, Daniel Jacobi, told IPS that of the 24 million hectares of maize planted annually in sub-Saharan Africa, about a third was hybrid seed.

Furthermore, farmers get a fuller yield from hybrid seeds by using fertilizer and agronomic practices, reducing post-harvest losses and getting the crop to market, he maintained.

“We can spend a long time and gain a lot of productivity in sub-Saharan Africa by doing all those things without ever getting to the introduction of GMOs,” Jacobi said following a tour of the DuPont Pioneer facility in the Midwestern U.S. state of Iowa.

“I think we tend to get wrapped up in the debate about GMOs and how multinational companies are forcing GMOs down the throats of local farmers. I think we ought to be focused on helping farmers do the best job they can do today by using hybrid seed and let us not let those priorities get lost in the big philosophical debate about GMOs.”

AfricaBio, a biotechnology stakeholder association formed in 1999, says a vast majority of the South African population are struggling to meet their daily needs and GM products offer a proven solution.

“For 14 consecutive seasons, South Africans have planted and consumed foods and food products derived from approved GM crops as part of their diet and no confirmed cases of harm to consumers of GM foods have been reported,” AfricaBio chief executive officer Nompumelelo Obokoh told IPS.

Meanwhile, Musi remained unhappy about the call to ban GM maize. “Africans should come to a realization that all this is happening in the name of contraceptive imperialism. Africa missed out during the Green Revolution – we must not miss the Gene Revolution. Let Africans decide for Africa,” he said.

 

[Type Username Here]

Wow, that's ill. Monsanto's going to try to give them hell for this shyt.

We need Obeezy to have them drones ready for thsoe scumbag Monsanto lobbyists.

If anything, the President might lobby for Monsanto.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Genetically modified food has been demonized by the media without any warrant or reason.

Biotechnology is the future.

really... so u consider baren fruit to be natural. giving farmers seeds they can't replant from their own crop so they have to buy from monsanto. u think seeds that don't repopulate are healthy?

I'm proud to be Kenyan. We are smart people unlike your clownish self, we didn't reject it because it is "white science" we have our own scientists and would like to tell our own population what is safe for their consumption thanks.

 

[Brown_Pride]

one does not simply Ban Monsanto from their country though. Let's keep it 100. MOnsanto has been trying to monopolize the cultivation of food world wide. Getting seeds that aren't genetically engineered to die after 1 harvesting is going to be the wave of the future.

I wholeheartedly expect for a lot of crops in Kenya to develop some type of mysterious bacteria that Monsanto has a "cure" for via GMO.
...

 

[Liu Kang]

dumb move. GMO may have the potential of ending hunger.

Think about the prospects of growing grains in anytype of soil? a robust plant that could feed millions.

But since this is "white science" and "technology" the hippie-guided left wants to do nothing but turn the clock back on the war on hunger.

Please, unlighten yourself about Monsanto:


The problem with Monsanto (not only their GMOs) is huge and if other countries don't fight back like Kenya, Monsanto may soon be the unique supplier of agricultural seed in the world. That is a problem in many levels considering how dirty this company is, but look at the doc, it explains it clearly.

 

[EQ.]

dumb move. GMO may have the potential of ending hunger.

Think about the prospects of growing grains in anytype of soil? a robust plant that could feed millions.

But since this is "white science" and "technology" the hippie-guided left wants to do nothing but turn the clock back on the war on hunger.

Seriously, leave this one alone kid. You do not care about Kenya, you have never been to Kenya, you have never lived in a slum in Kenya and you have never to feed kids/clothe kids in Kenyan shelters. I know this a internet thread to you but this personal to me, you do not have the nations best interest at heart. Leave it alone and go save your own people.

 

[SumBlackguyz]

dumb move. GMO may have the potential of ending hunger.

Think about the prospects of growing grains in anytype of soil? a robust plant that could feed millions.

But since this is "white science" and "technology" the hippie-guided left wants to do nothing but turn the clock back on the war on hunger.

i seriously hope you're trolling

 

[newworldafro]

Wow, that's ill. Monsanto's going to try to give them hell for this shyt.

We need Obeezy to have them drones ready for thsoe scumbag Monsanto lobbyists.

[/quote]

no disrespect breh..............but you are disgustingly misinformed..........


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[B]OBAMA APPOINTS MONSANTO’S VICE PRESIDENT AS SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE COMMISSIONER AT THE FDA [/B]| The Story of Liberty


OBAMA APPOINTS MONSANTO’S VICE PRESIDENT AS SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE COMMISSIONER AT THE FDA


[COLOR="red"]The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke.

Michael Taylor, MONSANTO’S VICE PRESIDENT, was just appointed senior advisor to the commissioner of the FDA. This is the same man that was in charge of FDA policy when GMO’s were allowed into the US food supply without undergoing a single test to determine their safety. He “had been Monsanto’s attorney before becoming policy chief at the FDA [and then] he became Monsanto’s Vice President and chief lobbyist. This month [he] became the senior advisor to the commissioner of the FDA. He is now America’s food safety czar. This is no joke.” [/COLOR][/quote]

 

[thekingsmen]

no disrespect breh..............but you are disgustingly misinformed..........

The video I posted mentions Micheal Taylor.

 

[Brown_Pride]

The video I posted mentions Micheal Taylor.

that video you posted scared the fuk out of me. I need to get off that GMO shyt and my kids too.

Non-GMO Shoppers’ Guide « The True Food Network

any resources on NOT eating this shyt would be appreciated.