This is a good move by EU to help educate our people not to misrepresent what they sell. One typical issue is peanut butter, why is it necessary to mix it with flour? If EU bans it will not take too long for US to ban. So sto ... read full comment
This is a good move by EU to help educate our people not to misrepresent what they sell. One typical issue is peanut butter, why is it necessary to mix it with flour? If EU bans it will not take too long for US to ban. So stop the greed and do not try to kill your consumers.
Kofi 10 years ago
This may or may not be true and the real reason why they want to ban. I do agree with what you m3ntioned about the adding of flour and so forth. The main reason is to say ours quality is not good so that we may accept their s ... read full comment
This may or may not be true and the real reason why they want to ban. I do agree with what you m3ntioned about the adding of flour and so forth. The main reason is to say ours quality is not good so that we may accept their seed (GMO) to replace ours.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago
Afua, Ghanaians want to be millionaires overnight so they add Sudan IV dye to palm oil to increase the quantity so they can make more money. I read about Sudan IV in palm oil in the UK about three years ago so I stopped buyin ... read full comment
Afua, Ghanaians want to be millionaires overnight so they add Sudan IV dye to palm oil to increase the quantity so they can make more money. I read about Sudan IV in palm oil in the UK about three years ago so I stopped buying palm oil, though I know that palm oil is far better than even olive oil. However, the risk of consuming Sudan IV scared me and since then I have not used palm oil and I miss zomi (palm oil).
There is too much indiscipline in Ghana and that is what is killing the country. I am sure millions of Ghanaians are consuming palm oil mixed with Sudan IV and that is a huge health risk to the population.
HONEST CITIZEN 10 years ago
Our policy makers should be thinking seriously about this,if we are allowing our currency to fall so much and our exports are also falling,then we are in a real mess.I can bet with my last dollar that our imports will also be ... read full comment
Our policy makers should be thinking seriously about this,if we are allowing our currency to fall so much and our exports are also falling,then we are in a real mess.I can bet with my last dollar that our imports will also be rising. GHANA WHERE ARE WE HEADING TOWARDS? I am not a doomsday predictor,but this is a mess NDC.
Kofi 10 years ago
All these complaints are set ups to allowGenetically Modified Organism Foods! Food shortage, ban on imports, and pest eating crops are all traps to force African countries to use GMO seeds. Wake up Ghana!
All these complaints are set ups to allowGenetically Modified Organism Foods! Food shortage, ban on imports, and pest eating crops are all traps to force African countries to use GMO seeds. Wake up Ghana!
Dave 10 years ago
Your comment is sad. There is a real problem with some non-traditional exports, a problem that will affect farm families' and farm communities' livelihoods and viability. Yet, instead of working with the farm communities tha ... read full comment
Your comment is sad. There is a real problem with some non-traditional exports, a problem that will affect farm families' and farm communities' livelihoods and viability. Yet, instead of working with the farm communities that you supposedly want to assist all you can think of is to somehow make a completely illogical connection to biotechnology. Originally the EU was your friend because they had restrictive GMO policies; now they have suddenly turned 180 degrees and are forcing GMOs on Africa? Your arguments and logic have fallen upon the rocks of your dogma.
Kofi 10 years ago
Tell me that in 5 years when we are forced to use only seeds that they want us to use. Do a little research on how other countries have been tricked into changing how they grow and prep food for export only to find that there ... read full comment
Tell me that in 5 years when we are forced to use only seeds that they want us to use. Do a little research on how other countries have been tricked into changing how they grow and prep food for export only to find that there was a hidden agenda. Amnnot saying we do not have challenges, but we need to find out the truth. This is not about me or you being right but just the truth.
Don Blunt 10 years ago
Nobody from 'nowhere' can force you to grow GM foods in your country. You can best blame your own leaders who for a few 'peanuts' are ready to give their go-ahead signatures.
What you and I should be thankful for, is that ... read full comment
Nobody from 'nowhere' can force you to grow GM foods in your country. You can best blame your own leaders who for a few 'peanuts' are ready to give their go-ahead signatures.
What you and I should be thankful for, is that somebody is telling us the bitter truth about our own greedy selves, poisoning the very customers who buy our products.
With some residual wisdom in our scull we should rather demand from our exporters in Ghana, to think!
Dead customers will surely stop buying from us again
Kofi 10 years ago
So tell me why Ghanaians have been eating GMO foods for the past 10 years and no one is saying anything. You want proof? If you live in Ghana, go to the Accra mall and look inside shoprite. What do you think those imported ch ... read full comment
So tell me why Ghanaians have been eating GMO foods for the past 10 years and no one is saying anything. You want proof? If you live in Ghana, go to the Accra mall and look inside shoprite. What do you think those imported chicken that are so cheap in price and have no taste come from? Please, dig a little to look for thebtruth instead of blindly accepting what our so called leaders are saying.
ADWEN 10 years ago
If continuous improvement principles are part of the Ghanaian society and fabric of our way of life, from our leadership echelons to the man on the street, we wouldn't have to wait till conditions are imposed on us to change ... read full comment
If continuous improvement principles are part of the Ghanaian society and fabric of our way of life, from our leadership echelons to the man on the street, we wouldn't have to wait till conditions are imposed on us to change or improve things.
Every thing we have done to grow and process the products have remained the same from time immemorial, nobody, including our so-called scientists and academicians have questioned the ways things are done. We are always sticking to the status quo.
The EU is right to force us to rethink and improve our processes.
True Patriot 10 years ago
All these toxic substances end up in our own citizens living abroad.
The Ghana govt. must wake up and do something about it.
they are calculating the financial losses and not the human life that is in danger.
All these toxic substances end up in our own citizens living abroad.
The Ghana govt. must wake up and do something about it.
they are calculating the financial losses and not the human life that is in danger.
OSEI 10 years ago
YOU HAVE TRIED AND ACHIEVED TO MESS UP EVERYTHING IN OUR BELOVED COUNTRY.WHY DON'T YOU CALL FOR ELECTIONS NOW AND LEAVE US WITH THE BONES IN OUR ECONOMY, OR YOUR DOGS LIKE ASIEDU NKETSIAH HAVE CHEWED THE BONES TOO?
YOU HAVE TRIED AND ACHIEVED TO MESS UP EVERYTHING IN OUR BELOVED COUNTRY.WHY DON'T YOU CALL FOR ELECTIONS NOW AND LEAVE US WITH THE BONES IN OUR ECONOMY, OR YOUR DOGS LIKE ASIEDU NKETSIAH HAVE CHEWED THE BONES TOO?
Laud Opiah Moses 10 years ago
I regard the decision of Eu as dicriminative action. Why are you still hunting Africans? The products you're about to ban is the same product your citizens import them from Ghana and sell them to Ghanaians in Europe. So my qu ... read full comment
I regard the decision of Eu as dicriminative action. Why are you still hunting Africans? The products you're about to ban is the same product your citizens import them from Ghana and sell them to Ghanaians in Europe. So my question is, Is it not the same items which is being allowed by your citizens to import them to Europe, so why is it not allowed for Ghanaians to export them to Europe? When will you stop this discrimination against Africans while you depend on them before you can stand on your feet. I don't blame you but our leaders who are so primitive and selfish idaea but remember that all the days are not equal.
NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago
Oh! You gullible so-called learned Ghanaians!!!! Why do you just fall hook, line and sinker for everything that the EU or foreigners for that matter tell you???? Why?
Did you know that the insecticides and fertilizers we'v ... read full comment
Oh! You gullible so-called learned Ghanaians!!!! Why do you just fall hook, line and sinker for everything that the EU or foreigners for that matter tell you???? Why?
Did you know that the insecticides and fertilizers we've imported from the EU and many other countries also contained chemicals that caused cancer? Did the EU know that? And willing to sell to us? Or was it okay for Africans to have cancer in the process of which they contaminate our crops???
Why did they not ban them? And why do we still buy them? Are we that stupid?
The EU decides on what we do in Africa. Afterall, they sponsor our AU meetings.....so what should we expect?
Why don't they ban their citizens for exporting toxic waste to Ghana? Does these not cause cancer? Or is it because African lives are worthless to them??????
Why have most of the nations in the EU banned GM foods and rather imposing it on Ghana?
These are the questions you gullible Ghanaians on this forum have to ask yourselves before falling for any shit thrown at you.
Wake up! You gullible Africans and stand up for yourselves. Afterall, the Almighty God has given you all the tools to prosper but, you look up to another being like you to make you succeed......IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN!!!!
GOD BLESS GHANA!
AFRICAN FOREVER!
Kofi 10 years ago
Thank you for showing that someone else has sense of is really happening. I mention the fact that is has more to do with controlling what we grow and eat instead of qualification of EU standard and I was told my argument has ... read full comment
Thank you for showing that someone else has sense of is really happening. I mention the fact that is has more to do with controlling what we grow and eat instead of qualification of EU standard and I was told my argument has no legs to stand on. Wake up! We Ghanaian are too smart to see what the white man and our leaders are dojng to us. We have traded common sense for arrogance and I know it all mentality. God helps us all!
Concerned 10 years ago
There is barely even 1 comment about how GHANAINS should be worried about the presence of these same cancerous chemicals in OUR OWN food supply. Who cares what the UK/EU want. If your food quality is poor the worst thing isn' ... read full comment
There is barely even 1 comment about how GHANAINS should be worried about the presence of these same cancerous chemicals in OUR OWN food supply. Who cares what the UK/EU want. If your food quality is poor the worst thing isn't the money we'll lose bcos of a ban, its the fact that our food is poor.
This gov't needs to stop doing useless things with our money and repriortize agriculture in Gh., insead of wasting millions $$ on things like airports - how many Ghanaians will benefit from that... just a few rich business people, whilst the rest of us languish with no water flowing through our pipes, no electricity.
This is a good move by EU to help educate our people not to misrepresent what they sell. One typical issue is peanut butter, why is it necessary to mix it with flour? If EU bans it will not take too long for US to ban. So sto ...
read full comment
This may or may not be true and the real reason why they want to ban. I do agree with what you m3ntioned about the adding of flour and so forth. The main reason is to say ours quality is not good so that we may accept their s ...
read full comment
Afua, Ghanaians want to be millionaires overnight so they add Sudan IV dye to palm oil to increase the quantity so they can make more money. I read about Sudan IV in palm oil in the UK about three years ago so I stopped buyin ...
read full comment
Our policy makers should be thinking seriously about this,if we are allowing our currency to fall so much and our exports are also falling,then we are in a real mess.I can bet with my last dollar that our imports will also be ...
read full comment
All these complaints are set ups to allowGenetically Modified Organism Foods! Food shortage, ban on imports, and pest eating crops are all traps to force African countries to use GMO seeds. Wake up Ghana!
Your comment is sad. There is a real problem with some non-traditional exports, a problem that will affect farm families' and farm communities' livelihoods and viability. Yet, instead of working with the farm communities tha ...
read full comment
Tell me that in 5 years when we are forced to use only seeds that they want us to use. Do a little research on how other countries have been tricked into changing how they grow and prep food for export only to find that there ...
read full comment
Nobody from 'nowhere' can force you to grow GM foods in your country. You can best blame your own leaders who for a few 'peanuts' are ready to give their go-ahead signatures.
What you and I should be thankful for, is that ...
read full comment
So tell me why Ghanaians have been eating GMO foods for the past 10 years and no one is saying anything. You want proof? If you live in Ghana, go to the Accra mall and look inside shoprite. What do you think those imported ch ...
read full comment
If continuous improvement principles are part of the Ghanaian society and fabric of our way of life, from our leadership echelons to the man on the street, we wouldn't have to wait till conditions are imposed on us to change ...
read full comment
All these toxic substances end up in our own citizens living abroad.
The Ghana govt. must wake up and do something about it.
they are calculating the financial losses and not the human life that is in danger.
YOU HAVE TRIED AND ACHIEVED TO MESS UP EVERYTHING IN OUR BELOVED COUNTRY.WHY DON'T YOU CALL FOR ELECTIONS NOW AND LEAVE US WITH THE BONES IN OUR ECONOMY, OR YOUR DOGS LIKE ASIEDU NKETSIAH HAVE CHEWED THE BONES TOO?
I regard the decision of Eu as dicriminative action. Why are you still hunting Africans? The products you're about to ban is the same product your citizens import them from Ghana and sell them to Ghanaians in Europe. So my qu ...
read full comment
Oh! You gullible so-called learned Ghanaians!!!! Why do you just fall hook, line and sinker for everything that the EU or foreigners for that matter tell you???? Why?
Did you know that the insecticides and fertilizers we'v ...
read full comment
Thank you for showing that someone else has sense of is really happening. I mention the fact that is has more to do with controlling what we grow and eat instead of qualification of EU standard and I was told my argument has ...
read full comment
There is barely even 1 comment about how GHANAINS should be worried about the presence of these same cancerous chemicals in OUR OWN food supply. Who cares what the UK/EU want. If your food quality is poor the worst thing isn' ...
read full comment
Great points!