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The GM Technology Debate Raging in Ghana

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  • STEVOOO 10 years ago

    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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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

  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Yag 10 years ago

    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 ...
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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 ...
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  • citzen 10 years ago

    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- ...
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  • 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 ...
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