you and family will be fed on GM foods only don't worry
you and family will be fed on GM foods only don't worry
insight to the bone 10 years ago
in our country the voice of reason can not be heard as the decision makers , stakeholders and politics are so polarized through tribalism and other mud slinging propaganda that the truth and common sense have become irreleva ... read full comment
in our country the voice of reason can not be heard as the decision makers , stakeholders and politics are so polarized through tribalism and other mud slinging propaganda that the truth and common sense have become irrelevant . the ministry of agric is notorious for the the fact that the minister and chief director there are the most corrupt callous characters in the govt today. every nation that has achieved development has put in checks and balances that rectify mistakes or evil tendencies , our leaders first make sure these checks and balances are eliminated whether by declaring president for life or one party states like nkrumah did or by putting strange immunity or indemnity clauses in the constitution like rawlings did. if there is no accountability there can be responsibility and a vicious circle of corruption , disunity and open crimes are committed but none of this ruling oligarchy will ever be made to pay for their atrocities. our country and her citizens produce tens of billions but poverty is the daily lot of most of our citizens as the system of divide and rule has been perfected , our gold and other natural resources leave the country but no a single dollar comes back to benefit our people , our diaspora of over 10 to 15 million is not involved in development rather when they come they are financially raped by all from their own relatives with ridiculous demands for electronic gadgets and school fees to the state organized mafia institutions with tribally biased evil agendas . a nation not unified or focused on matters of national importance are doomed to failure . the quiet majority are being exploited and raped on a daily basis but due to the govt sponsored propaganda and lies are unable to see things clearly and act . yes we have a hopeless depressing future ahead due to our own laziness , non action and cowardice of thought. nobody is interested in investigating the truth for themselves or even questioning the most obvious crimes. jj has proclaimed k4 a corrupt individual yet after superpowers investigated they rewarded him by appointing him special envoy , jj will not go to jail for his false declaration rather in the madness and with his tribal homogenous support will be declared a hero and not for inciting hatred against another leader who will most likely end up in a pool of blood like mills .the tragedy is far from over as mahama and his lies only continue this trend , mr all talk and no action is busy taking us on another jolly ride to despair and hopelessness . the only solution is a cleansing war or revolution which will ensure that the country is divided up so we all get a fresh start , no point in fixing whats too broken to repair
peace 10 years ago
you and family will be fed on GM foods only don't worry
you and family will be fed on GM foods only don't worry
Dungeon Master 10 years ago
Please provide for your reading audience where you work; your research interests and sponsors or patrons, if any; your affiliation with, or denial thereof, GM biotech companies like monsanto.
Surely if more advanced count ... read full comment
Please provide for your reading audience where you work; your research interests and sponsors or patrons, if any; your affiliation with, or denial thereof, GM biotech companies like monsanto.
Surely if more advanced countries in Europe and North American question the potential and documented deleterious effects of genetically-modified foods, then less advanced country like Ghana has to be cautious until history and the scientific community UNEQUIVOCALLY prove GM safe. We are a sovereign nation and should not do things because others have done so. We are still not convinced; and as far as GM, the jury is still out
Dr.Adofo 10 years ago
Lets compare the tall,lanky maize that we use to plant in the village and the new short one we have now and see which is better?The short ones mature early,resistant to adverse weather condition and has better yield.Is it not ... read full comment
Lets compare the tall,lanky maize that we use to plant in the village and the new short one we have now and see which is better?The short ones mature early,resistant to adverse weather condition and has better yield.Is it not as a result of genetical manipulations that the new breed was obtained?We should trust our scientists and dissect evidence based science from gossips,hearsay and politics.The yields in Burkina when it comes to vegetables and legumes are better.Let find out how they do it and stop making noise.We eat a lot of imported potatoes,chicken and even onions.Who knows how they are produced.
PKA 10 years ago
We have to tread cautiously and wait till it's been proven beyond all reasonable doubts that GM crops are safe. We just can't embrace it just because others have done so. In any case, it's not as if there is famine in Ghana.
We have to tread cautiously and wait till it's been proven beyond all reasonable doubts that GM crops are safe. We just can't embrace it just because others have done so. In any case, it's not as if there is famine in Ghana.
Nima Boy 10 years ago
Dr. Adofo with all due respect, my hometown of paga produce better organic, quality tomatoes than the GM once from Burkina fasso. What are you talking about? I wish you will answer Dr.Martin's question of why did Europeans ... read full comment
Dr. Adofo with all due respect, my hometown of paga produce better organic, quality tomatoes than the GM once from Burkina fasso. What are you talking about? I wish you will answer Dr.Martin's question of why did Europeans rejected GM or why americans are trooping on organic food nowadays? O they don't have scientist in Europe I think...
Dr.Adofo 10 years ago
Doc thanks so much for educating us on the facts.We have been fed with a lot of rubbish by the so called NGOs.I have a typical example which is the tomatoes we import from Burkina Faso.How come Burkina tomatoes do well than o ... read full comment
Doc thanks so much for educating us on the facts.We have been fed with a lot of rubbish by the so called NGOs.I have a typical example which is the tomatoes we import from Burkina Faso.How come Burkina tomatoes do well than our own.We try to use emotions,ideologies and ignorance to solve our problems which never works and that is why we are poor.The so called perfumed rice we are fond of who can say it is not genetically modified?Definately it is not wild rice.CSIR has come out to say there is no truth in what the doomsayers are peddling around but still we are being bombarded with all sorts of lies by people who barely understand basic science.Now its taken the usual NPP/NDC nonsense.Let us use science to solve our problems and stop superstition.Scientific methods of plant breeding is the new way to go.So either we join or we shall be left behind to continue to wallow in abject poverty.
Dr. Martin, MD. 10 years ago
I have been following this GM debate for some time now and I realize that a lot of our leaders,academicians and many Doctorate degree holders in Ghana accept and promote so called new ideas without having researched the issu ... read full comment
I have been following this GM debate for some time now and I realize that a lot of our leaders,academicians and many Doctorate degree holders in Ghana accept and promote so called new ideas without having researched the issues themselves.
Most of our decision making processes are influenced by powerful foreign interests,and so we just look around and think because some countries are doing something, it means there is nothing wrong with it, without realizing that those countries may have been unduly influenced,or even bullied into accepting some of these ideas.
I am a Medical Doctor, I live in the US, the world capital of GM food if you ask me, and I have conducted an extensive research on GM foods to be able to say that the introduction of GM crops is the worse thing that ever happened to the worlds food supply.
For lack of space, I will just give a few highlights.
1.Monsanto, DuPont,Syngenta and the other GM giants do not care about feeding people. Their aim is to own and control all the seeds of the world, through international patents. I hope you understand the implications of this point. What this means is that, to be able to grow these crops, the farmer will have to buy the seeds from Monsanto or whoever the provider is,cannot save seeds(Monsanto has sued
farmers across the US and Canada for saving seeds)and has to buy their proprietary chemicals for spraying in order for the seeds to grow.
2.GM seeds are not engineered to withstand any adverse environmental factors,nature does a better job at this,they are engineered to withstand excessive spraying of proprietary pesticides and herbicides.Research has shown this to be the case. In fact GM crops do very very bad in severe weather conditions.
3. Most people are confusing crop breeding with genetic engineering. In crop breeding, which even our uneducated farmers understand, there is no introduction of foreign DNA material, but a selection of and crossing/grafting of the best plants within the same species over a long period of time until the best seed or crop is produced.
4. The GM crops are so domineering that once they are introduced into an ecosystem, they take over, and dilute the indigenous crops, pushing the pure breed to extinction. Monsanto knows this and takes advantage of it however it can.
5. Americans are waking up gradually and are demanding more accountability so these companies are looking for alternative markets,especially soft targets in the third world like Ghana.
As a Doctor, I know first hand,the toxic effect of GM food to our health and I won't even go into that here. Why do you think, GM crops are not allowed in the EU? they know the Americans are not telling the whole truth on this issue. Europeans( except the British of course) are more honest and driven more by true science than profits and power. Sadly most food,drug and health policy here in the US is driven by money and lobbyists rather than science and so can not be trusted. Scientific research if often faked, experimental design specifically selected to produce the desired conclusions, and negative results deleted from the final report, hidden or unreported. But when the people become aware and protest, or when the deleterious effects begin to show up the companies just pay a few million dollars in fines, and keep the billions already made in profits.
The information is there for all who are honestly looking for the truth to see. As a Doctor who has conducted medical research, I consider myself a scientist so I am not against the innovations of science. what I am against is dubious science and so called innovations that do more harm than good, in order to line the pockets of some faceless multinational companies whiles poor helpless ignorant, or naive nations and people suffer the consequences. So Dr Adofo, and Dr. Annor-Frempong, please do your due diligence and don't just promote GMOs because Ghana is counting on people like us, the educated to help her navigate these GMO waters.
There are lots of research resources, but anybody interested can begin his or her research , by reading the book;SEEDS OF DECEPTION BY Jeffrey M. Smith and if you are motivated, follow that up with the Genetic Roulette, by the same author. Read these books, and double check the references and you will be amazed how much information is out there and how hard the Biotech industry is fighting to keep it from us. Also watch the free well produced documentary; The world according to Monsanto on YouTube.
Dungeon Master 10 years ago
Your comment should be a published article on Ghanaweb, sir. Please edit it, substantiate your claims, and submit it for publication. Again, thanks for an exceptional comment on the subject.
Your comment should be a published article on Ghanaweb, sir. Please edit it, substantiate your claims, and submit it for publication. Again, thanks for an exceptional comment on the subject.
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro. 10 years ago
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
Thanks, Dungeon Master!
I was going to say the same thing! I can even be published in its current form! It would still be far better than the current stupid article und ... read full comment
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
Thanks, Dungeon Master!
I was going to say the same thing! I can even be published in its current form! It would still be far better than the current stupid article under which it is found!
Forward ever!
Pur'gu Saarpe! Esq.,
Secretary to the Odikro
PKA 10 years ago
Dr. Martin, your excellent thought-provoking comment has given me hope that there are still some enterprising Ghanaian intellectuals out there. The main article pales in comparison to your insightful research and perspective ... read full comment
Dr. Martin, your excellent thought-provoking comment has given me hope that there are still some enterprising Ghanaian intellectuals out there. The main article pales in comparison to your insightful research and perspective on this GMO fraud. Yhanks, Doc.
Nima Boy 10 years ago
The question I want to ask is Why do we need GM technology ? Is food not in abundance in Ghana? Is it not the bad roads that are hampering the transport of food to the urban areas? Ghanaians, we are to be blamed.
The question I want to ask is Why do we need GM technology ? Is food not in abundance in Ghana? Is it not the bad roads that are hampering the transport of food to the urban areas? Ghanaians, we are to be blamed.
AMU 10 years ago
Thanks.
Thanks.
Dr.Adofo 10 years ago
PLs anybody can download the plant breeders bill on the web.it has nothing to do with GMO.IT is just like the intellectual property bill.
PLs anybody can download the plant breeders bill on the web.it has nothing to do with GMO.IT is just like the intellectual property bill.
K Amoako 10 years ago
PBB 20. 13 (6) (c) variant individual from a plant of the initial variety, back crossing or transformation by genetic engineering.
GMOs are protected by the bill. A GMO is created and transformed by genetic engineering.
PBB 20. 13 (6) (c) variant individual from a plant of the initial variety, back crossing or transformation by genetic engineering.
GMOs are protected by the bill. A GMO is created and transformed by genetic engineering.
Asiwome 10 years ago
GMO could be replaced with human in this argument. The argument for promoting the best and discarding the worst is what is used to promote eugenics and slavery. There is something fundamentally wrong with not being satisfied ... read full comment
GMO could be replaced with human in this argument. The argument for promoting the best and discarding the worst is what is used to promote eugenics and slavery. There is something fundamentally wrong with not being satisfied with what God has created. We must act proactively to support life on earth for every creature that has been created. Consequences will follow if we continue to manipulate nature. In the USA organic food is affordable only to the rich, but we want to get rid of our organic food. We need some serious philosophical arguments for preserving life on earth. The pristine things on earth are natural ones!
Bortier 10 years ago
Some of us base our argument on documentaries watched on YouTube. These documentaries feature prominent scientist from the developed world. Help us with documentaries or publications which have challenged the assertion of the ... read full comment
Some of us base our argument on documentaries watched on YouTube. These documentaries feature prominent scientist from the developed world. Help us with documentaries or publications which have challenged the assertion of these scientist.
Secondly planting of seeds from bigger fruits, best colour and other characteristics in times of old is not manipulation. It is the force method used by biotechnology which is manipulation. It is manipulation because it is not left to chance. However that of old farming methods in left to chance because planting the best seeds does not give the best result. The same applies to GM seeds as mentioned in your write up. This shows that there are factors controlling the outcome to the old practice and that of GM seed. It is just like the fact that not all people who go for test tube babies can end up with babies. This is because there is a lot beyond the control of man. What science has done in this respect is like seeding a horse to a river side but not able to force it to drink.
GM seeds is therefore not a solution and even if it is Ghana with need some time before joining. We are not ready to manage the monitoring, regulation and other measures you mentioned. Just look at how agro-chemicals are sold and used indiscriminately. Let us not act like the typical Ghanaian that we are, always going for the latest.
Let's remember that the solution of science is a ramified transformation which culminate in myriad complex problems. Hence let us tread cautiously because food is our life thread.
/foodsovereigntyghana.org/ 10 years ago
FOOD SOVEREIGNTY GHANA
We insist that it is unscientific to claim that there are no known side-effects of GM foods. So far, there have been no long-term scientific study on the effects.
Secondly, the producers of GM fo ... read full comment
FOOD SOVEREIGNTY GHANA
We insist that it is unscientific to claim that there are no known side-effects of GM foods. So far, there have been no long-term scientific study on the effects.
Secondly, the producers of GM foods have consistently opposed labelling. This means victims of the effects can only guess. These corporations are opposed to labelling because they do not want to be held legally responsible for any ill-effects, as the onus of proof is on the victims.
How can anyone confidently claim GMOs are safe when the effects have never been studied? When the GM foods are not even labelled? When over independent scientist who drafted and approved the Biosafety Protocols call for systematic doubt?
Below is the latest statement from FSG on the US offer of $850 million, if Ghana accepts GMOs? What makes anyone think that this is simply an act of charity and not an investment in our enslavement?
USA CAN KEEP THEIR GMO MONEY!
MONDAY, 23 DECEMBER 2013 | PRESS RELEASE BY FOOD SOVEREIGNTY GHANA
It sounded very odd to hear the information officer at the US embassy, Jeanne Clark, say that Ghana reserves the right to open its agricultural landscape to accommodate genetically modified foods. See: Ghana can choose or reject GMOs - US Embassy [1] Dec 16, 2013. Who does not know this? Why does she feel the need to repeat such a banality? It is obvious that the US embassy would be pleased to see the Plant Breeders' Bill passed even in its current form.
"We view it is Ghana's decision to decide what is right for Ghana but we recognize the importance of the science led research aspect of it. There is tremendous research out there that shows the benefit of nutrition fortification," She was reported to have said.
She tells the usual biotechnology-industry lies about nutrition fortification (there are no successful GMO examples so far) and food security (the opposite is true). And of course the article describes what amounts to aid bribery. We read the lie that GMOs are somehow more scientific. Ruining the land does not lead to food security, nor does preventing farmers from saving seeds. The arguments she offers are familiar lies. Shorter version of the Information Officer's words, We are just trying to help, with the implication that not accepting that acquisitive "help" is ignorant and ungrateful.
These comments come immediately after it became apparent that Parliament failed to pass the Plant Breeders' Bill as planned by the end of the year. The failure to quietly pass the Bill means that it is going to come under intense public scrutiny, hence these declarations from the US embassy. We have seen it all before. US diplomats tell Ghana the US is bringing 3 Ds: defense diplomacy and development. It will work as well as the 19th century 3 Cs: commerce, Christianity, and civilization.
They are even adding financial inducement. The USAID - Ghana Mission Director, James A. Bever was also reported to have said at the same event: "We have sent the financial obligation document to Minister Seth Tekper and we hope he will be signing it in a few weeks," He added that out of 150 million, they have 120 million in their account adding "assuming this package, if we were to resource it at the level that we forecast, for the strategy, it will be $850 million starting with what we call fiscal year 13 monies when we are now crossing the end of the fiscal year 13."
It is important that we make it clear to the US that they can keep their money! Any businessman or woman who walks unto our shores to propose any kind of business that requires we allow him or her the right to ignore our laws, is a strange business person indeed! Why should we suffer the indignity of hearing this? What type of business is this one that requires a complete disregard of any measures to regulate its activities?
How can we give up our right to regulate something as important as the food we eat? Do they take Ghanaians for animals who have no say about what is in their food? We live in a world where scientific experiments have been conducted on populations without their consent, sometimes with disastrous consequences, such as the Tuskegee experiment in which black men were left untreated with syphilis in order to watch how their disease progressed. Roundup herbicide is right now being sprayed on GMO crops and on thousands of farm workers around the world, human guinea pigs in a giant Monsanto "experiment".
Why should such a fundamental right such as the right to feed ourselves be given to an industry so clearly dominated by giant foreign corporations with a history of disregard for human life and safety, such as Monsanto? Monsanto fights every inch to avoid compensating the victims of its bad products. It is not a company we can trust. Monsanto started selling its Roundup herbicide as biodegradable, until a court order banned them from making those false claims. Roundup spray becomes a component of a vast majority of GMO crops. When we eat GMO crops, or animals fed GMO crops, we are eating Roundup. Monsanto said it was as safe as table salt. It turns out it is a biocide, dangerous to anything that lives. Before that Monsanto lied about DDT for decades.
Monsanto's track record includes Agent Orange, saccharin, dioxin, you name it! Putting King Herod in charge of mother-care is a better idea than putting Monsanto in charge over our food! It is not too difficult to understand that the plant breeder, like any other commercial activity requires a certain level of legal protection. What we fail to understand is why such a right ought to be over and above the laws of the land? And why should they be able to steal Ghana's genetic material and patent it as their creation?
When the Food Sovereignty Ghana delegation met Parliament, the Plant Breeders Bill had already gone through the First and Second Reading. It still contains the outrageous Clause 23 that puts the rights of foreign corporate plant breeders above the laws of Ghana and above the rights of Ghana's citizens. In the Plant Breeders' Bill before Parliament, Clause 23 is perhaps the most outrageous clause introduced to Parliament since the 6th of March 1957. The offending Clause is easy to understand. Whereas, the Constitution of Ghana makes even the Human Rights of citizens subject to the laws of Ghana, the Plant Breeders' right is placed over and above that of the state. Clause 23 reads:
"_23 MEASURES REGULATING COMMERCE. _
_A plant breeder right shall be independent of any measure taken by the Republic to regulate within Ghana the production, certification and marketing of material of a variety or the importation or exportation of the material."_
US officials must be more than aware of the WTO rules that they themselves helped to put into place. Under these rules, whilst Ghana may have the right to pass the law, we automatically lose any right to repeal or even amend it later on. This Bill, once passed, can never be revoked. According to the WTO rules, even if a Least Developed Country, LDC, introduces a TRIPS-compliant obligation on IP-protection, it would no longer be able to reduce that scope of protection, regardless of the fact that the LDC is not required to implement the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - TRIPS Agreement." This is certainly one of the most contentious points in the negotiations known as the "no-rollback" (NRB) clause. See: LDC TRIPS exemption approved with mixed reactions: www.twnside.org.sg/title2/wto.info/2013/twninfo130606.htm [2]
What is even more alarming is that after pointing this out, our Parliamentarians did not seem to see the gravity of the situation. The most alarming of all were the remarks from the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Mrs. Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, as well as the Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Yakubu Alhassan. Their words and actions are both embarrassing and a grave danger to Ghana. We have no confidence that things would turn out differently without mass awareness and participation in this decision.
For Life, the Environment, and Social Justice!
Dungeon Master 10 years ago
Thanks for your insightful comment.
Thanks for your insightful comment.
Seidu Alhassan 10 years ago
Thank you very much,Food Sovereignty,Ghana. It is high time we rise against a move that will turn out to be like the Tuskegee experiment. We have a lot of arable land. We should rather encourage organic farming for better hea ... read full comment
Thank you very much,Food Sovereignty,Ghana. It is high time we rise against a move that will turn out to be like the Tuskegee experiment. We have a lot of arable land. We should rather encourage organic farming for better health that goes for better development.
Gandalf 10 years ago
PLEASE DONT TELL US THERE ARE NO ADVERSE FINDINGS VIA SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON GMO FOODS. I WONDER WHAT OR HOW YOU READ. YOUR DOCTORATE DOES NOT QUALIFY YOU TO LOOK DOWN ON US. IN FACT SOME OF THE MOST DISAPPOINTING COMMENTS ON ... read full comment
PLEASE DONT TELL US THERE ARE NO ADVERSE FINDINGS VIA SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON GMO FOODS. I WONDER WHAT OR HOW YOU READ. YOUR DOCTORATE DOES NOT QUALIFY YOU TO LOOK DOWN ON US. IN FACT SOME OF THE MOST DISAPPOINTING COMMENTS ON THIS ISSUE HAS COME FROM GHANAIAN PH.D HOLDERS AND THEY WILL ONE DAY BOW THEIR HEADS IN SHAME. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT CLAUSE 23? IT IS TRUE WE WILL ALL DIE ONE DAY, BUT THEY SHOULD NOT PUSH US INTO EARLY GRAVES. THE FOODS OUR FARMERS HAVE BEEN PRODUCING HAS GIVEN US AN AVERAGE LIFESPAN THAT IS ACCEPTABLE. WHY MUST WE CHANGE?
Spuki 10 years ago
Our politicians should construct our road because all the food stuff are stuck in the hinterland
Our politicians should construct our road because all the food stuff are stuck in the hinterland
ANTI-HYPOCRISY 10 years ago
So you, with your undeclared doctorate degree field, know better than all the European countries that have banned GMO's?
Your hypocrisy is beyond cure by any "scientific" methods!
So you, with your undeclared doctorate degree field, know better than all the European countries that have banned GMO's?
Your hypocrisy is beyond cure by any "scientific" methods!
Whatever 10 years ago
Someone tell this writer that there were controls, protocols, monitors, strict regulations and so forth in the US yet in 2008, banks - international banks and hedge funds in the US begun to collapse one after the other and ma ... read full comment
Someone tell this writer that there were controls, protocols, monitors, strict regulations and so forth in the US yet in 2008, banks - international banks and hedge funds in the US begun to collapse one after the other and many people lost their money. So imagine, if those money were human lives?
Whatever 10 years ago
The US Government and their scientist through hired lobbyist are proposing to conduct genetic experiments on 25Million full-blooded Ghanaians and you say what? This diabolic genetic restructuring of the Ghanaians should never ... read full comment
The US Government and their scientist through hired lobbyist are proposing to conduct genetic experiments on 25Million full-blooded Ghanaians and you say what? This diabolic genetic restructuring of the Ghanaians should never be tolerated. Don't you know you're what you eat? Were there no controls and regulations in the US when banks and hedge funds started collapsing one by one? I mean Imagine if they were human beings? You are not really a Ph.D, are you? Because if you were, you'd not have displayed your unintelligent viewpoints publicly. Our natural physical body structure and formation cannot be test sample for laboratories in the US. No responsible country which values its identity and survival will allow genetic restructuring of its nationals by unrepenting foriegn Governments who has a history of killing anybody at all to achieve its interest.
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro. 10 years ago
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
Thank you very much, Whatever!
The poor guy is only acknowledging the fact that he and his owners are losing the argument to fool Ghanaians! Just listen to him:
"G ... read full comment
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
Thank you very much, Whatever!
The poor guy is only acknowledging the fact that he and his owners are losing the argument to fool Ghanaians! Just listen to him:
"Ghanaians should therefore conduct the current debate not on emotions or ideological inclinations but with available empirical and science-based-evidence. From what I have heard on the radio and read in the newspapers, it appears that there is lack of information about GM crops and the proponents have failed to put up convincing arguments for the introduction of the GM crops into Ghana. The scale seems to be tilting in favour of those who oppose the introduction, in spite of the fact that, the premise for their opposition, although sound it may seem, is not based on available facts and evidence. They have sought to use the media and the streets to shape public opinion and I would like to contribute to the debate by briefly summarizing the facts about GM crops as we know them today."
What a pathetic soul! I can assure you that the FSG is going to respond to this nonsense!
Sincerely,
Pur'gu Saarpe! Esq.,
Secretary to the Odikro.
Whatever 10 years ago
Nana Akyea, they never had any just argument from the start that's they've stuck to that one liner of calling our condemnation, visceral. The fact is a proposal to allow caucasian scientist sitting in California to change, ma ... read full comment
Nana Akyea, they never had any just argument from the start that's they've stuck to that one liner of calling our condemnation, visceral. The fact is a proposal to allow caucasian scientist sitting in California to change, manipulate and dilute the gene pool of Ghanaians whether knowingly or unknowingly is highly dangerous, will wreck any country. Such proposal goes straight to the heart of the destiny of this country. Which one of these scientist can even create a single human hair as a replacement for one lost... for us to go and gamble on a daily basis, our livers and pancreas on their test?
K Amoako 10 years ago
See this summary with link to the original study: gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2013/15226-gm-crops-bring-higher-agrochemical-use-and-lower-productivity-in-brazil-report
See this summary with link to the original study: gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2013/15226-gm-crops-bring-higher-agrochemical-use-and-lower-productivity-in-brazil-report
K Amoako 10 years ago
Genetically Modified Organisms and the deterioration of health in the United States - read the details with charts and graphs here:
sustainablepulse.com/wp-content/uploads/GMO-health.pdf
Genetically Modified Organisms and the deterioration of health in the United States - read the details with charts and graphs here:
sustainablepulse.com/wp-content/uploads/GMO-health.pdf
Kofi Kyei 10 years ago
I think this GM propaganda piece would work wonders if it was directed at day nursery kids. Unfortunately, I wonder how many of them will get the chance to read this. Too bad for the writer.
I think this GM propaganda piece would work wonders if it was directed at day nursery kids. Unfortunately, I wonder how many of them will get the chance to read this. Too bad for the writer.
Anthony Insaidoo 10 years ago
I agree teetotally!
I agree teetotally!
Kofi Agblor 10 years ago
A well-written piece indeed and deserves to be read by the opponents of GM technology who do so on prejudice and bias related to their ideological bearings. Ghana and its farmers deserve better and improved technologies, not ... read full comment
A well-written piece indeed and deserves to be read by the opponents of GM technology who do so on prejudice and bias related to their ideological bearings. Ghana and its farmers deserve better and improved technologies, not just to improve their bottom lines, but to provide the much-needed food security for the country.
Whatever 10 years ago
It is likes of you that aided slave raiders to catch and sell Ghanaians into slavery. Do you have a problem with the current Ghanaian gene pool? If no, why do you want to carelessly allow your competitor to dilute it and mani ... read full comment
It is likes of you that aided slave raiders to catch and sell Ghanaians into slavery. Do you have a problem with the current Ghanaian gene pool? If no, why do you want to carelessly allow your competitor to dilute it and manipulate it? We can can get better technology and food security from within, not from outside. Go to CSIR and see the better and safer researches they've done sitting on the shelves, gathering dust and thick cobwebs
Bortear 10 years ago
Don't we have a worse problem ahead of us than food to think of GM food when there is more land?
We should be thinking of what to do when we are now faced with dwindling resource. Our gold is getting finished and it goes alo ... read full comment
Don't we have a worse problem ahead of us than food to think of GM food when there is more land?
We should be thinking of what to do when we are now faced with dwindling resource. Our gold is getting finished and it goes along with the destruction of our land and timber. The other minerals and our newly found oil will also get depleted. If all these happen what shall we do as a nation to survive in the next 10 years and thereafter. Watch out and let us start thinking for China has seen the light. China has gone to the Moon searching for minerals. That is "Dwen Hwe Kan"
Hence if there is anything worth doing, let us start thinking of our survival without the present resources. Let us not worsen our flight with GM food.
Bortear 10 years ago
There are a lot of videos on GMWATCH our parliamentarians and the Ghanaian general population can watch to know that GM food will not do us any good. Hence parliamentarians should not ignore the voice of the people. This is b ... read full comment
There are a lot of videos on GMWATCH our parliamentarians and the Ghanaian general population can watch to know that GM food will not do us any good. Hence parliamentarians should not ignore the voice of the people. This is because it is the voice of the people which is democracy. We are doing what they should do for us as parliament (committee of the people). Our's is a big help for them which should be taken seriously.
We have bigger problem ahead than food. Depleting resources. China has seen theirs so they have gone to the Moon searching for minerals
Wafe 10 years ago
GMOS and the suicide seeds will impoverish poor Ghanaian farmers. We have to protect our seeds from the multinationals--whose main goal is for profit. Multinational corporations are not good agents of economic development.
GMOS and the suicide seeds will impoverish poor Ghanaian farmers. We have to protect our seeds from the multinationals--whose main goal is for profit. Multinational corporations are not good agents of economic development.
you and family will be fed on GM foods only don't worry
in our country the voice of reason can not be heard as the decision makers , stakeholders and politics are so polarized through tribalism and other mud slinging propaganda that the truth and common sense have become irreleva ...
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you and family will be fed on GM foods only don't worry
Please provide for your reading audience where you work; your research interests and sponsors or patrons, if any; your affiliation with, or denial thereof, GM biotech companies like monsanto.
Surely if more advanced count ...
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Lets compare the tall,lanky maize that we use to plant in the village and the new short one we have now and see which is better?The short ones mature early,resistant to adverse weather condition and has better yield.Is it not ...
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We have to tread cautiously and wait till it's been proven beyond all reasonable doubts that GM crops are safe. We just can't embrace it just because others have done so. In any case, it's not as if there is famine in Ghana.
Dr. Adofo with all due respect, my hometown of paga produce better organic, quality tomatoes than the GM once from Burkina fasso. What are you talking about? I wish you will answer Dr.Martin's question of why did Europeans ...
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Doc thanks so much for educating us on the facts.We have been fed with a lot of rubbish by the so called NGOs.I have a typical example which is the tomatoes we import from Burkina Faso.How come Burkina tomatoes do well than o ...
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I have been following this GM debate for some time now and I realize that a lot of our leaders,academicians and many Doctorate degree holders in Ghana accept and promote so called new ideas without having researched the issu ...
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Your comment should be a published article on Ghanaweb, sir. Please edit it, substantiate your claims, and submit it for publication. Again, thanks for an exceptional comment on the subject.
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
Thanks, Dungeon Master!
I was going to say the same thing! I can even be published in its current form! It would still be far better than the current stupid article und ...
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Dr. Martin, your excellent thought-provoking comment has given me hope that there are still some enterprising Ghanaian intellectuals out there. The main article pales in comparison to your insightful research and perspective ...
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The question I want to ask is Why do we need GM technology ? Is food not in abundance in Ghana? Is it not the bad roads that are hampering the transport of food to the urban areas? Ghanaians, we are to be blamed.
Thanks.
PLs anybody can download the plant breeders bill on the web.it has nothing to do with GMO.IT is just like the intellectual property bill.
PBB 20. 13 (6) (c) variant individual from a plant of the initial variety, back crossing or transformation by genetic engineering.
GMOs are protected by the bill. A GMO is created and transformed by genetic engineering.
GMO could be replaced with human in this argument. The argument for promoting the best and discarding the worst is what is used to promote eugenics and slavery. There is something fundamentally wrong with not being satisfied ...
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Some of us base our argument on documentaries watched on YouTube. These documentaries feature prominent scientist from the developed world. Help us with documentaries or publications which have challenged the assertion of the ...
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FOOD SOVEREIGNTY GHANA
We insist that it is unscientific to claim that there are no known side-effects of GM foods. So far, there have been no long-term scientific study on the effects.
Secondly, the producers of GM fo ...
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Thanks for your insightful comment.
Thank you very much,Food Sovereignty,Ghana. It is high time we rise against a move that will turn out to be like the Tuskegee experiment. We have a lot of arable land. We should rather encourage organic farming for better hea ...
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PLEASE DONT TELL US THERE ARE NO ADVERSE FINDINGS VIA SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON GMO FOODS. I WONDER WHAT OR HOW YOU READ. YOUR DOCTORATE DOES NOT QUALIFY YOU TO LOOK DOWN ON US. IN FACT SOME OF THE MOST DISAPPOINTING COMMENTS ON ...
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Our politicians should construct our road because all the food stuff are stuck in the hinterland
So you, with your undeclared doctorate degree field, know better than all the European countries that have banned GMO's?
Your hypocrisy is beyond cure by any "scientific" methods!
Someone tell this writer that there were controls, protocols, monitors, strict regulations and so forth in the US yet in 2008, banks - international banks and hedge funds in the US begun to collapse one after the other and ma ...
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The US Government and their scientist through hired lobbyist are proposing to conduct genetic experiments on 25Million full-blooded Ghanaians and you say what? This diabolic genetic restructuring of the Ghanaians should never ...
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OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
Thank you very much, Whatever!
The poor guy is only acknowledging the fact that he and his owners are losing the argument to fool Ghanaians! Just listen to him:
"G ...
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Nana Akyea, they never had any just argument from the start that's they've stuck to that one liner of calling our condemnation, visceral. The fact is a proposal to allow caucasian scientist sitting in California to change, ma ...
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See this summary with link to the original study: gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2013/15226-gm-crops-bring-higher-agrochemical-use-and-lower-productivity-in-brazil-report
Genetically Modified Organisms and the deterioration of health in the United States - read the details with charts and graphs here:
sustainablepulse.com/wp-content/uploads/GMO-health.pdf
I think this GM propaganda piece would work wonders if it was directed at day nursery kids. Unfortunately, I wonder how many of them will get the chance to read this. Too bad for the writer.
I agree teetotally!
A well-written piece indeed and deserves to be read by the opponents of GM technology who do so on prejudice and bias related to their ideological bearings. Ghana and its farmers deserve better and improved technologies, not ...
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It is likes of you that aided slave raiders to catch and sell Ghanaians into slavery. Do you have a problem with the current Ghanaian gene pool? If no, why do you want to carelessly allow your competitor to dilute it and mani ...
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Don't we have a worse problem ahead of us than food to think of GM food when there is more land?
We should be thinking of what to do when we are now faced with dwindling resource. Our gold is getting finished and it goes alo ...
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There are a lot of videos on GMWATCH our parliamentarians and the Ghanaian general population can watch to know that GM food will not do us any good. Hence parliamentarians should not ignore the voice of the people. This is b ...
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GMOS and the suicide seeds will impoverish poor Ghanaian farmers. We have to protect our seeds from the multinationals--whose main goal is for profit. Multinational corporations are not good agents of economic development.