GMO'S CAN NEVER BE SIMILAR TO OUR NATURAL FOODS WITH ALL THE ABILITIES TO CONFER THE CAPACITY TO PROTECT US AGAINST NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES LIKE BP, DIABETES, STROKES, HEART ATTACKS, INFERTILITY, BARRENNESS, STERILITY, IMPO ... read full comment
GMO'S CAN NEVER BE SIMILAR TO OUR NATURAL FOODS WITH ALL THE ABILITIES TO CONFER THE CAPACITY TO PROTECT US AGAINST NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES LIKE BP, DIABETES, STROKES, HEART ATTACKS, INFERTILITY, BARRENNESS, STERILITY, IMPOTENCE, STRONG IMMUNE SYSTEMS,......WE DONT WANT AND DONT NEED ANY GMO SEEDS FOR CULTIVATION....WE ARE SAFER WITHOUT ANY GMO'S .....WE WILL PROTECT OUR GOD GIVEN NATURAL SEEDS....
Papacy, Samuel Conduah 10 years ago
You have no business tempary with the food Nature has given me. I have spent years to identify food which food is good for me. Please don't try to create confusion in the food I eat you are not God. You sit in aeroplanes I do ... read full comment
You have no business tempary with the food Nature has given me. I have spent years to identify food which food is good for me. Please don't try to create confusion in the food I eat you are not God. You sit in aeroplanes I don't and I don't need aeroplanes to survive. I don't need GMO . Find a better way to make money. I have right to enjoy what The Almighty God has given mankind naturally. May God strike dead any one who try to fake what God in his own wisdom has done
MONSATO 10 years ago
We don't need GMO's in Ghana. Let's grow our own food naturally. Any MONSATO lobbyist in Ghana is an enemy of the people. By the way, MONSATO is the American company that is leading the GMO craze and Americans hate it. Govern ... read full comment
We don't need GMO's in Ghana. Let's grow our own food naturally. Any MONSATO lobbyist in Ghana is an enemy of the people. By the way, MONSATO is the American company that is leading the GMO craze and Americans hate it. Government must STOP every attempt at introducing GMO's to Ghana!
Jeto 10 years ago
I don't blame you because your parent who never ate gm food survive the test of time in so many years. Posterity will judge you with your so called PhD
I don't blame you because your parent who never ate gm food survive the test of time in so many years. Posterity will judge you with your so called PhD
Dessy,Canada 10 years ago
i dont buy that argument that, GMO by fact,natural created..It is artificially created..tell you what..why do you think that cancer is taking tolls and scientist had hard time curing for all these kinds of desease.it is becau ... read full comment
i dont buy that argument that, GMO by fact,natural created..It is artificially created..tell you what..why do you think that cancer is taking tolls and scientist had hard time curing for all these kinds of desease.it is because the diary consumption of food is creating all those..Most of Gh food are synthetics that poses threat to the humanm body.example:Canada beef is banned by EU and japan..the resons are too much hormones injected to these kinds of animals and the kinds of hormones has traces to cancer..why do government ask manufactureres specify the GM food content into their labels..why still huge debate on cronning animal and humans..because it is known the risk factors are high..GM help increase productivity for consumption as the world population is growing but there too much risk factors affecting that..if allow in ghana,ghana is not well scientifically incline curving the side effect if things go bad and beside,we are not there yet because we have enomous potential to feed naturally on our nation..nowadays modified rice seed are in aboundant..but the taste of rice is way out compare to rice grown in village(organic)farming..So,GMO is still on debate UN platform..ghana is not there yet,..lets not jump start and not these money hungry ghanaiabs dump GM food into the system and create all kinds of these..We are not there yet
Kwame 10 years ago
Patrick Kobina Arthur the first thing I will like to say is that we human beings are deprived of almost the inherent instincts that we do not do things depending on our biological definiteness. But do what we do because we ar ... read full comment
Patrick Kobina Arthur the first thing I will like to say is that we human beings are deprived of almost the inherent instincts that we do not do things depending on our biological definiteness. But do what we do because we are instructed, watch the example of others use our knowledge and skill to solve both physical and mental problems. From the above I can not become a goldsmith by virtue that my father was a goldsmith.
Let us now come to biology and let I a layman tell you what I have observed. A fowl and a duck are both birds, they can have a chicken. But that chicken does not reproduce. A tiger, leopard and lion are cannibals but their offspring does not reproduce itself.
Thus the first problem that most of us are confronted with with this Genetically Modified Crops is will the seeds be able to reproduce themselves? If no, then why should a nation put his stomach at the mercy of GMC seed producers somewhere in advanced countries citizens who do not respect our human dignity. We are aware that it is not consciousness of letting a nation get its needs that force some people to destroy our agriculture and industry so that they can import both agricultural and industrial products into this country. All that is driven by the instinct to make money damming all the consequencies that that will bring and has brought to this country.
In the 60s so as to solve the problem of hunger the first president of Ghana Dr. Kwame Nkrumah established the Farmers' Brigade which was into food production, preserving, distribution and processing. Those who are telling us to use genetically modified crops because we are hungry are the same people who deprived us of the ability and efforts by ourselves to not go hungry. They aborted all that and they call that food the dictators food which reproduce its own seed. Now they want to replace it with a democratic seed that does not reproduce its seeds, thus the nation will be left at the mercy of the GMF seed producer. That insanity is called a democratic choice.
Another issue is that the people who are pushing all these insanity into our minds intensively subsidize food production and distribution in their own country but through the WTO put a clause on countries in Africa not to subsidize food production and distribution. We subsidize even their consumption when items are produced in our Free Export Zones.
The answer to arresting hunger is organized agriculture as it was in the early 60s. Let us return to that and forget about the chicken of a duck and fowl, the lion and tiger that does not reproduce itself.
Kofi 10 years ago
GMO is known to cause serious health implications like cancer. Who knows whether consumers can even reproduce after a while.
GMO is known to cause serious health implications like cancer. Who knows whether consumers can even reproduce after a while.
Kofi Osei 10 years ago
Patrick Did you that some European countries have banned GMO products?
Banned GMO seeds?
I can consider you as a lobbyist for those GMO companies. I see that even with your soooo called phd you haven't learnt a thing or ... read full comment
Patrick Did you that some European countries have banned GMO products?
Banned GMO seeds?
I can consider you as a lobbyist for those GMO companies. I see that even with your soooo called phd you haven't learnt a thing or two about been honest to yourself, your country and your follower citizens..... we Ghanaians that live in Our Beloved Country. Your a bad man who's heart is from of greed for money.
OKOE 10 years ago
YOUR ARTICLE HAS NOT ADDRESSED WHAT ARE THE LONG TERM EFFECTS OF THESE GMO'S ON LIVING THINGS. IT TAKES TIME FOR A HARMFUL MATERIAL OR IN THIS GMO FOOD TO MANIFEST ITSELF OF WHAT DAMAGE IS CAUSING TO ALL THOSE THAT CONSUME TH ... read full comment
YOUR ARTICLE HAS NOT ADDRESSED WHAT ARE THE LONG TERM EFFECTS OF THESE GMO'S ON LIVING THINGS. IT TAKES TIME FOR A HARMFUL MATERIAL OR IN THIS GMO FOOD TO MANIFEST ITSELF OF WHAT DAMAGE IS CAUSING TO ALL THOSE THAT CONSUME THEM. WHAT TRIALS WERE MADE AND FOR HOW LONG TO SHOW THAT THESE GMO ARE SAFE IN THE LONG RUN. THESE GMO ARE BARNED IN VERY DEVELOPED COUNTRIES. WE HAVE OUR NATURAL CROPS SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL NOW WE HAVE MODIFIED CROPS THAT ARE PATENTED AND YOU HAVE TO BUY THE PATENT TO USE IT. IF YOU DO BUY THE PATENT AND THEY FIND A WIND BLOWN ONE OF THEIR CROP ON YOUR FARM, THEY WILL SUE YOU. YOU HAVE FOUND A CROP THAT YOU DID NOT SOW GROWING AT YOUR BACKYARD, WELL NOT ANYMORE BECAUSE IF YOU DO NOT UPROOT THAT ASTRAY TOMATO IN YOUR GARDEN AND IT HAPPENS TO BE GMO, YOU BETTER REMOVE IT FAST ELSE YOU FIND YOURSELF IN COURT. YOU CANNOT SELL GMO SEEDS TO YOUR NEIGHBOUR, HE HAS ALWAYS TO BUY THEM FROM THOSE WITH THE PATENT ELSE YOU FIND YOUR BACKSIDE IN COURT. THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS WE DO NOT KNOW ABOUT GMO.BUT WE KNOW WHAT WE HAVE BEEN GROWING ALL THESE YEARS AND IT HAD SERVED US WELL. WE DO NOT NEED GMO. LET US STICK TO WHAT WE HAVE BEEN USING ALL THESE YEARS.
Elijah 10 years ago
Your article is overly simplistic and too one sided to merit any serious consideration. You have not mentioned one possible good reason why the entire EU and Japan have totally rejected GMO technology in food crops. Are you s ... read full comment
Your article is overly simplistic and too one sided to merit any serious consideration. You have not mentioned one possible good reason why the entire EU and Japan have totally rejected GMO technology in food crops. Are you suggesting their research is inferior to Ghana's (where no research whatsoever has been carried out into this dangerous technology)? Whereas your argument gene recombinant technology holds true for the manufacture of insulin, it is intended solely for people who need this type of semi-synthetic insulin for their survival. We have not explored natural, organic forms of farming anywhere near its potential and we are jumping into the creation of novel DNA for consumption. Have you thought about the implications for one minute? Have you investigated the type of gene transfer that is used in GMO food technology? Where in nature have you ever come across spider's DNA in any plant forms? Please do not attempt to throw dirty water into the eyes of unsuspecting Ghanaians.
Even in countries where GMO technology is currently used people are increasing rejecting them. Do you think they are doing so for no good reason? Did you hear about the Indian school children who were dying like chickens after consuming GMO food in Schools last year? I can tell you categorically that Ghana will make more money out of organic farming than it ever will using GMO technology looking at current trends. I hope our compatriots will open their eyes wide and properly disect the evidence around GMO food consumption and its concomitant problems before adopting this technology widely. Of course every form of technology is dangerous if used inappropriately.But people do have a choice as far as use is concerned. Once GMO technology becomes common place thats our choice gone out of the window because no scientist has yet discovered a way of stopping gene transfer between species of a particular genus in nature. Our bodies know how to handle the current gene pool that have been in circulation for millenia and changed very little. What GMO technology is doing is introducing very significant changes that do not occur in nature. Natural genetic changes are subtle and quite often predictable; not GMO changes.
Yag 10 years ago
Who qualified as intellectual dishonest person ?How can one be identified.?
Who qualified as intellectual dishonest person ?How can one be identified.?
kofi 10 years ago
did the say the writer of this article has a PhD...he might probably gotten it from the toilet cos he is so dump..comparing GMO technology to jet planes.. does he know what BT cotton has done in India..claiming life, does he ... read full comment
did the say the writer of this article has a PhD...he might probably gotten it from the toilet cos he is so dump..comparing GMO technology to jet planes.. does he know what BT cotton has done in India..claiming life, does he know what the repercussions of eating BT corn...my or my.. this man makes me sick.. why will someone wnt to post this especially on the day that Ghana is marching to refuse GMO while parliament is considering the plant breeders bill which is also GMO inclined.this article is mischievous.
DeCashcow 10 years ago
I bet if we accept this , we will suffer at the long run. Lets kick the motherfucking GMO or whatever out of this country.
I bet if we accept this , we will suffer at the long run. Lets kick the motherfucking GMO or whatever out of this country.
Mohutu Heyhey Heyso 10 years ago
Yes,taking human genes from dna and putting them in plants and even other organisms is just what nature does all the time. There is absolutely no species barrier! GMO comes from God himself like manna from heaven.
Yes,taking human genes from dna and putting them in plants and even other organisms is just what nature does all the time. There is absolutely no species barrier! GMO comes from God himself like manna from heaven.
Whatever 10 years ago
Do you think Europe or Asia which does not buy GM foods coming from America, will buy GM food exports coming from Ghana? Absolutely NOT. The consequences for our foreign trade will be disastrous in addition to having our DNA ... read full comment
Do you think Europe or Asia which does not buy GM foods coming from America, will buy GM food exports coming from Ghana? Absolutely NOT. The consequences for our foreign trade will be disastrous in addition to having our DNA being degraded by it
citzen 10 years ago
gmo oho
gmo oho
Sankofa 10 years ago
Patrick Kobina Arthur, don't be silly!
You eat GM food if you want.
We do not want it as its safety is unproven. In fact it has been shown to be harmful to rodents.
Besides we do not need it. we can attain food self- ... read full comment
Patrick Kobina Arthur, don't be silly!
You eat GM food if you want.
We do not want it as its safety is unproven. In fact it has been shown to be harmful to rodents.
Besides we do not need it. we can attain food self-sufficiency without it.
Let us not contaminate our food chain irreversibly and sell our birthright to Monsanto et al.
Deceive 10 years ago
You're wrong.What research have you done about the GMO. For how long are the white people going to take us for a ride.If GMO is good why Monsanto has spent $4 billions to stop the labeling of GMO products in US. Why countries ... read full comment
You're wrong.What research have you done about the GMO. For how long are the white people going to take us for a ride.If GMO is good why Monsanto has spent $4 billions to stop the labeling of GMO products in US. Why countries like Europe, Japan, South Korea, South Africa,India,Peru, Argentina have banned GMO products in their countries.Why India farmers are killing themselves because of GMO. Why Brazil,Mexico, Hawaii, Canadaian farmers are crying everyday because they can't plant their own organic seeds anymore after they tried Monsanto deadly seeds. Why his own researcher said he won't by or eat any food that is not organic in US. Why Monsanto has his own organic farm if his products are good.Greedy Monsanto wants to control all the seeds because if it's nature he can't patent it so he's using global warming as an excuse to destroy all the organic seeds, herbs and trees that we use for nature's cure so that we won't have any choice besides his seeds of death upon all the side effects cancer, auto immune disease, GI, you name it.How many people are healthy in America nowadays.About 60% of US population are sick because of GMO foods we consume everyday but don't know. Ghanaians this is 21st century we have every right to oppose this GMO please get up and stand for your rights. If you want to know the truth about Monsanto's GMO go to Google search and type seeds of death, Monsanto popular videos or the sick story of GMO and see the videos for yourself. They're You Tube videos from doctors, farmers and European researcher. We've had enough of white people. Say no GMO, no to the greedy politicians.
GMO'S CAN NEVER BE SIMILAR TO OUR NATURAL FOODS WITH ALL THE ABILITIES TO CONFER THE CAPACITY TO PROTECT US AGAINST NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASES LIKE BP, DIABETES, STROKES, HEART ATTACKS, INFERTILITY, BARRENNESS, STERILITY, IMPO ...
read full comment
You have no business tempary with the food Nature has given me. I have spent years to identify food which food is good for me. Please don't try to create confusion in the food I eat you are not God. You sit in aeroplanes I do ...
read full comment
We don't need GMO's in Ghana. Let's grow our own food naturally. Any MONSATO lobbyist in Ghana is an enemy of the people. By the way, MONSATO is the American company that is leading the GMO craze and Americans hate it. Govern ...
read full comment
I don't blame you because your parent who never ate gm food survive the test of time in so many years. Posterity will judge you with your so called PhD
i dont buy that argument that, GMO by fact,natural created..It is artificially created..tell you what..why do you think that cancer is taking tolls and scientist had hard time curing for all these kinds of desease.it is becau ...
read full comment
Patrick Kobina Arthur the first thing I will like to say is that we human beings are deprived of almost the inherent instincts that we do not do things depending on our biological definiteness. But do what we do because we ar ...
read full comment
GMO is known to cause serious health implications like cancer. Who knows whether consumers can even reproduce after a while.
Patrick Did you that some European countries have banned GMO products?
Banned GMO seeds?
I can consider you as a lobbyist for those GMO companies. I see that even with your soooo called phd you haven't learnt a thing or ...
read full comment
YOUR ARTICLE HAS NOT ADDRESSED WHAT ARE THE LONG TERM EFFECTS OF THESE GMO'S ON LIVING THINGS. IT TAKES TIME FOR A HARMFUL MATERIAL OR IN THIS GMO FOOD TO MANIFEST ITSELF OF WHAT DAMAGE IS CAUSING TO ALL THOSE THAT CONSUME TH ...
read full comment
Your article is overly simplistic and too one sided to merit any serious consideration. You have not mentioned one possible good reason why the entire EU and Japan have totally rejected GMO technology in food crops. Are you s ...
read full comment
Who qualified as intellectual dishonest person ?How can one be identified.?
did the say the writer of this article has a PhD...he might probably gotten it from the toilet cos he is so dump..comparing GMO technology to jet planes.. does he know what BT cotton has done in India..claiming life, does he ...
read full comment
I bet if we accept this , we will suffer at the long run. Lets kick the motherfucking GMO or whatever out of this country.
Yes,taking human genes from dna and putting them in plants and even other organisms is just what nature does all the time. There is absolutely no species barrier! GMO comes from God himself like manna from heaven.
Do you think Europe or Asia which does not buy GM foods coming from America, will buy GM food exports coming from Ghana? Absolutely NOT. The consequences for our foreign trade will be disastrous in addition to having our DNA ...
read full comment
gmo oho
Patrick Kobina Arthur, don't be silly!
You eat GM food if you want.
We do not want it as its safety is unproven. In fact it has been shown to be harmful to rodents.
Besides we do not need it. we can attain food self- ...
read full comment
You're wrong.What research have you done about the GMO. For how long are the white people going to take us for a ride.If GMO is good why Monsanto has spent $4 billions to stop the labeling of GMO products in US. Why countries ...
read full comment