Commentary on the Dangers of Genetically Modified Foods

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Sad to say, highly experimental Genetically Modified foods have been introduced to the African Market. It is now up to African consumers to reject them. This will save lives and cost for the treatment of the side effects of consuming Genetically Modified foods.*

Give it to Mikie. He'll eat anything!

AFRICANS WILL EAT ANYTHING. QUITE TRUE.
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*The history of controlling the food industry in the world by the then
American Government in 1973 under President Nixon started by introducing the
"Food for Peace" programme which was led by Henry Kissinger, Nixon's
Secretary of State and National Security Adviser.*

According to the New African Magazine, Kissinger controlled absolutely the
US foreign policy and summarized his activities as "Control oil and you
control nations, control food and you control the people". His idea of
capturing the worldwide food industry started with the introduction of what
was termed as the gene revolution.

The revolution did not succeed until 1990. a member of the South African
consumer movement, Andrew Taynton explains that whereas natural breeding
techniques select plants or animals with desirable traits and cross breed
within a species to create better crops or animals, genetically modified are
developed in laboratories by splicing genes from unrelated species into the
host organism.

For instance, bacterial genes can be spliced into food crops and it will
reproduce itself in each cell in the plants. Also scientists are now
transferring anti-freeze genes from fish to tomatoes to keep fruit longer in
the cold. There is also the splicing of pig genes into rice and daffodils to
corn. All these have devastating effects, because of its imprecise
processes.

The main effects of consuming genetically modified foods includes;
allergies, new toxins, new diseases, antibiotic resistance and change in
nutritional values. One other thing which needs to be mentioned is the "V
Gurts" Varietal Genetic Use Restriction Technology which is popularly called
the "Suicide Seeds" or terminator technology.

One expert believes Africa is in great danger now as genetically modified
seeds are made in forms of herbicides and pesticides. These are normally
exported to Africa and the Caribbean. The centre for Disease Control of the
United States says that at lease 80% of food related illnesses are cause by
viruses or pathogens that scientist cannot even identify.

Prince Charles, the heir to the British Throne, was once reported to have
stated that "growing genetically modified crops in the developing world
represents the biggest environmental disaster of all time".

With the realities of climate change, it is just an option to reject these
kinds of foods on the market. More revelations have been made by Dr. Arpad
Pusztai, when he found out that rat fed on genetically modified potatoes had
smaller livers, hearts, testicles and brains.

It was also revealed that their immune systems have been damaged with a lot
of structural changes in their white blood cells, making them vulnerable to
infections and other diseases as compared to rats which were fed on normal
organic foods. The same changes occur in humans who also take genetically
modified foods.

Thus, the whole world could be exterminated if nothing is done to stop it.
We have all become lab rats in mass human experiment with huge risks. The
risks will be too late to detect and save the world especially Africa
because it will take longer times to find the antidotes. By then the
genetically modified companies would have made their money.

Apart from South Africa which has started growing genetically modified
crops, the remaining African countries must reject and fight against
governments who want to adopt the technology. Ghana should also try to
establish strict checks on imported foods, seeds, herbicides and pesticides
to control, if not to stop the spread of the genetically modified crops in
the country.

The solution is to accept nuclear foods which are done through induced
mutations. World examples of induced mutations include; Tek Bankye which has
been developed by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in
collaboration with the IAEA. The Biotechnology and Nuclear Agricultural
Research Institute has carried out researches that show that the Tek bankye
yields as high as 17.84 tons per acre.

Kenya has also developed a high yielding and drought resistant wheat.
Hopefully all Africans, especially, Ghanaians would reject genetically
modified foods for a sustainable environment and good health.

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