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5 MILLION NIGERIANS OPPOSE GMO FROM MONSANTO
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Who in Africa needs to see this in order to stop the madness and exploitation of Black Africans once and for all?
How many times do we have to say that Africa is under siege from Chinese marauders, Eruotrash imperialist post colonial exploiters, African traitors to their own country, ignorant fools trying to pass themselves off as leaders and presidents? Somewhere in there, in the midst of all this madness are African people who are being exploited, and deliberately kept ignorant of what's going; deliberately kept powerless in the hands of mercenaries; deliberately kept in poverty as their monies are siphoned off and given to their oppressors to keep them oppressed.
Monsanto is only on of the triumvirates of evil that go to make up the US most egregious GMO companies. They face major lawsuits in the US, but have no compunction about going into Africa and trying to get away with the same thing.
When you have an ersatz leader who's so greedy that he'd rather to exploit the people through the undermining of their ecosystem and food supply, and they'd rather do that than to build the country and save the people - that person has to go - immediately, if not sooner. It's a widely held secret that most of the ersatz presidents of the various countries throughout the Continent are dumb as a box of rocks, and are so busy kissing the behinds of the europeans they can't see straight - let alone take a stand to defend their people. When African students study in other countries in order to bring what they've learned to their home country, these so-called leaders are so jealous and so threatened, they'd rather imprison them than to bring them into the government to help their country succeed - which is the original reason why they went away to study in the first place. The so-called leaders are afraid they might actually know more than they do - sadly this is a known fact - and the cause of so many not coming back home at all.
Now, Nigeria, the most populous and well educated of the Countries in Africa is having to say to their president, don't be stupid - don't trade with Monsanto - read the information - monsanto is a crook, it's evil, they're trying to take over our food production and feeding us tainted food. We can grow our own good quality food we don't need them. ARE THESE ERSATZ LEADERS LISTENING, OR ARE THEY LICKING THEIR GREEDY CHOPS THINKING ABOUT THE MONEY THEY MIGHT (I SAID MIGHT) RECEIVE FOR MAKING DEALS WITH THE DEVIL. THESE ARE NOT LEADERS - THEY HAVE TO GO. TIME FOR AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS AT HOME AND ABROAD - LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN AFRICA
NOW, BACK TO MY ORIGINAL QUESTION: HOW DO WE GET THIS INFO TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENTS OF THE VARIOUS COUNTRIES. HOW DO WE GET NIGERIA TO WAKE UP? !!!!
Time to take out the garbage - which is what they turn out to be when they don't do what they're supposed to do.
Anyway, the article is only the tip of the iceberg. Africans at home, Africans abroad worldwide need to work to help Africa - our MOTHER LAND - from being destroyed.
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Millions of Nigerians are urging the Nigerian government to reject Monsanto’s attempts to introduce genetically modified (GMO) cotton and maize into the country's food and farming systems.
One-hundred organizations representing more than 5 million
Nigerians, including farmers, faith-based organisations, civil society
groups, students and local community groups, have submitted a joint objection to
the country's National Biosafety Management Agency (NABMA) expressing
serious concerns about human health and environmental risks of
genetically altered crops.
The groups' petition follows Monsanto Agricultural Nigeria Limited's own application to NAMBA that seeks to release GMO cotton (Bt cotton, event MON 15985) into the city of Zaria as well as surrounding towns. Another application seeks confined field trials of two GMO corn varieties (NK603 and stacked event MON 89034 x NK603) in multiple locations in Nigeria.
In a press release, the groups said they are particularly alarmed about the commercial release of Bt cotton into Nigeria, which is being phased out in Burkina Faso due to the "inferior lint quality" of the GMO cultivars.
“We are totally shocked that it should come so soon after peer-reviewed studies have showed that the technology has failed dismally in Burkina Faso," Nnimmo Bassey, the director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, one of the leading opposition groups, said in a statement. "It has brought nothing but economic misery to the cotton sector there and is being phased out in that country where compensation is being sought from Monsanto.”
He asked in the statement: "Since our Biosafety Act has only recently entered into force, what biosafety legislation was used to authorize and regulate the field trials in the past in accordance with international law and best biosafety practice?”
Former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan signed the National Biosafety Management Bill into law last year, basically opening the doors to GMOs cultivation in the country.
The groups noted Monsanto's crops are genetically enhanced to tolerate the use of the herbicide glyphosate which was declared as a possible carcinogen by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) last March.
“Should commercialization of Monsanto’s GM maize be allowed pursuant to field trials, this will result in increased use of glyphosate in Nigeria, a chemical that is linked to causing cancer in humans," Mariann Orovwuje, Friends of the Earth International’s food sovereignty co-coordinator, said in a statement.
"Recent studies have linked glyphosate to health effects such as degeneration of the liver and kidney, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. That NABMA is even considering this application is indeed unfortunate and deeply regrettable, knowing full well about the uncontrolled exposure that our rural farmers and communities living close to farms will be exposed to.”
Besides the potential contamination of local maize varieties, the groups argued that the health risks of introducing GMO maize into Nigeria could be "enormous" considering that maize is a staple food in their diet.
Coupled with a lack of resources to adequately control and monitor the human and environmental risks of GMO crops and glyphosate, the groups argued that Nigeria doesn't have a platform to test for glyphosate or other pesticide residues in food and food products, nor do they have an agency that can monitor the herbicide's impact on the environment, including water resources.
On the flip side, GMO-advocates tout that biotechnology is not only safe for human consumption and the environment, it's also a solution to malnutrition and global food security, as these crops have been genetically tinkered with to provide certain nutritional benefits and/or spliced-and-diced to resist certain pathogens and other roadblocks.
For instance, Monsanto’s Water Efficient Maize for Africa, a five-year development project led by the Kenyan-based African Agricultural Technology Foundation, aims to develop a variety of drought-tolerant maize seeds. The project receives funding from the Gates Foundation, United States Agency for International Development and Howard G. Buffett Foundation.
In an interview with Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Blumenstein, Bill Gates explained his views about GMOs:
“Genetically engineered crops are not engineered to help anybody," he says about six minutes into the video. "They are engineered to help the industry that produces the crops."
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The groups' petition follows Monsanto Agricultural Nigeria Limited's own application to NAMBA that seeks to release GMO cotton (Bt cotton, event MON 15985) into the city of Zaria as well as surrounding towns. Another application seeks confined field trials of two GMO corn varieties (NK603 and stacked event MON 89034 x NK603) in multiple locations in Nigeria.
In a press release, the groups said they are particularly alarmed about the commercial release of Bt cotton into Nigeria, which is being phased out in Burkina Faso due to the "inferior lint quality" of the GMO cultivars.
“We are totally shocked that it should come so soon after peer-reviewed studies have showed that the technology has failed dismally in Burkina Faso," Nnimmo Bassey, the director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, one of the leading opposition groups, said in a statement. "It has brought nothing but economic misery to the cotton sector there and is being phased out in that country where compensation is being sought from Monsanto.”
He asked in the statement: "Since our Biosafety Act has only recently entered into force, what biosafety legislation was used to authorize and regulate the field trials in the past in accordance with international law and best biosafety practice?”
Former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan signed the National Biosafety Management Bill into law last year, basically opening the doors to GMOs cultivation in the country.
The groups noted Monsanto's crops are genetically enhanced to tolerate the use of the herbicide glyphosate which was declared as a possible carcinogen by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) last March.
“Should commercialization of Monsanto’s GM maize be allowed pursuant to field trials, this will result in increased use of glyphosate in Nigeria, a chemical that is linked to causing cancer in humans," Mariann Orovwuje, Friends of the Earth International’s food sovereignty co-coordinator, said in a statement.
"Recent studies have linked glyphosate to health effects such as degeneration of the liver and kidney, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. That NABMA is even considering this application is indeed unfortunate and deeply regrettable, knowing full well about the uncontrolled exposure that our rural farmers and communities living close to farms will be exposed to.”
Besides the potential contamination of local maize varieties, the groups argued that the health risks of introducing GMO maize into Nigeria could be "enormous" considering that maize is a staple food in their diet.
Coupled with a lack of resources to adequately control and monitor the human and environmental risks of GMO crops and glyphosate, the groups argued that Nigeria doesn't have a platform to test for glyphosate or other pesticide residues in food and food products, nor do they have an agency that can monitor the herbicide's impact on the environment, including water resources.
On the flip side, GMO-advocates tout that biotechnology is not only safe for human consumption and the environment, it's also a solution to malnutrition and global food security, as these crops have been genetically tinkered with to provide certain nutritional benefits and/or spliced-and-diced to resist certain pathogens and other roadblocks.
For instance, Monsanto’s Water Efficient Maize for Africa, a five-year development project led by the Kenyan-based African Agricultural Technology Foundation, aims to develop a variety of drought-tolerant maize seeds. The project receives funding from the Gates Foundation, United States Agency for International Development and Howard G. Buffett Foundation.
In an interview with Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Blumenstein, Bill Gates explained his views about GMOs:
“What are called GMOs are done
by changing the genes of the plant, and it’s done in a way where there’s
a very thorough safety procedure, and it’s pretty incredible because it
reduces the amount of pesticide you need, raises productivity (and) can
help with malnutrition by getting vitamin fortification
"And so I think, for Africa, this is going to make a huge difference, particularly as they face climate change …
The U.S., China, Brazil, are using these things and if you want farmers
in Africa to improve nutrition and be competitive on the world market,
you know, as long as the right safety things are done, that’s really
beneficial. It’s kind of a second round of the green revolution. And so
the Africans I think will choose to let their people have enough to
eat.”
But in the video below, Bassey objects to the argument that GMOs are
necessary to ensure food security and nutrition in Africa and that the
continent can feed itself without the aid of multinational biotech
companies.
“Genetically engineered crops are not engineered to help anybody," he says about six minutes into the video. "They are engineered to help the industry that produces the crops."
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