Author: TNC Posted: 2012-10-12 23:18:46 EC,
If, the sale or purchase of votes by individuals in the society is an electoral offence, then camera phones must not be allowed in the pooling booths come Dec.7th.
Ignorance
Author: KOF Posted: 2012-10-12 23:40:49 Hat is GMO?
Re: Ghanaians Unanimously Reject GMO Testing!
Author: GIFTY Posted: 2012-10-12 23:41:25 Can somebody please explain what GMO testing means to the lame person?
Waa-Look
Author: Ewusi Posted: 2012-10-13 00:24:16 Suatra.Ghana a country that has no ships ,no air line and has mismanaged its railways are quick to swallow anything that comes their way.When is the time our President is going to stop thinking about women and implement policies that could alleviate us from poverty.
Ghanaians GO BURN THE EXPERIMENTAL FARMS
Author: ibn Abudu , NPP founding Member -CA Posted: 2012-10-13 00:38:51 Before , the world knew of brown sugar Dr Kwame Nkrumah established the Astuare sugar factory producing brown sugar - nutritionous not POISON
HUNT THEM DOWN , CAPTURE THEM , DRIVE THEM AWAY AND BURN THE EXPERIMENTAL FARMS
THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THE YOUTH NOT GAYS AND LESBIANS AND POISON FOODS
GMO?
Author: BabaUS Posted: 2012-10-13 03:07:25 What is GMO? Define your abbreviations so we can understand what you are writing about!!!
PAN WHAT ?
Author: Ebenezer Kofi Hayford, Posted: 2012-10-13 03:22:56 How came everything is seen through the prism of NDC & NPP? now read the origin of this message and tell the whole world where you have NPP coming from:
Confined Field Trial (CFT) of three genetically modified crops may start next year, according to Senior Research Scientist, Dr. Ibrahim Kwasi Atokple.
Scientists at various Institutes of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research are expecting permits from the National Biosafety Committee to enable them proceed with the evaluations.
Seeds for genetically modified rice, cowpea and sweet potatoes are to be tested for essential traits that will enhance crop production in the country.
With on-going global debates over the health implications of genetically modified organisms, parliament recently passed The Biosafety Act of 2011 (Act 831) to legalise importation and research into GMOs. Ghana now joins countries like South Africa, Burkina Faso, Egypt and Kenya which are already producing and importing GMOs on the continent.
Genetic modification or genetically modified (GM) refers to the moving of genes between species and varieties using a technique called “gene splicing”, although all methods of breeding modify and exchange genes.
Gene splicing is one of the new methods available to investigate life at the molecular level, which are sometimes referred to under the general term “biotechnology”.
Genetically modified organisms therefore, are those whose genes have been altered by transferring into them external genes with desired traits with the aim of enhancing their performance.
The Confined Field Trials of rice, cowpea and sweet potatoes are expected to last for at least three years to allow scientists to critically analyse the seeds’ integrity and be sure the desired traits are inherent in them before being recommended for commercial production in the country.
Lead investigator for BT Cowpea project with CSRI – Savannah Agriculture Research Institute, Dr. Ibrahim Kwasi Atokple, explained, “Each crop has a peculiar problem or problems. The GM-Sweet potato is addressing the issue of malnutrition within the rural folks by increasing the essential amino acids. For rice, we are developing varieties that are tolerant to drought and salinity with high nitrogen-use efficiencies. This research is justified by the fact that most of the rice fields (irrigated and hydromorphic) have accumulated salts over the years thus, forcing farmers to abandon the fields.”
Pod-borer, a key insect pest of cowpea, feeds on the tender stems, flower buds, leaves and pods causing damage to the entire plant. This can result in grain quality and yield reduction of between 30 and 80 per cent, according to experts.
Certainly, this is no good news for cowpea production in the country which already records low yields. As such, it has become necessary to control pest infestation of cowpea by developing pest-resistant varieties.
According to Dr. Atokple, “At this point we are just testing the efficacy of the gene conferring the resistance to the insect (Maruca or pod-borer) in the cowpeas. When we get that, then we cross those that have shown resistance with the ones cultivated by farmers. So a cross between the transformed material and conventional ones is what we are going to evaluate for final release –that is, the old commercial cowpea now with resistance to pod borer.”
The project, is still at the research stage and according to experts, materials will not be commercialised until scientists have ascertained that seeds of the new varieties have maintained the product integrity of former commercial varieties in terms of quality, yield as well as acceptability to farmers and consumers
Dispelling general perception that GM foods may have some health implications on humans, Dr. Atokple stated quality and food safety was foremost in the entire project and that safety precautions were being taken according to the national and international standards of biosafety regulations.
The several biosafety guidelines and regulations in addition to the Biosafety Act are intended to regulate inflows, future researches and production of GMOs to ensure that GM crops that enter the country are safe for use.
According to the Secretary of the National Biosafety Committee and Coordinator for Biosafety activities at the Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology, Eric Amanning Okoree, decisions on GMO test planting will soon be made since all risk assessments have been completed by the Technical Advisory Committee set up to review three Confined Field Trial applications.
The genetically modified seeds for rice and sweet potatoes are to be imported from the United States while seeds for cowpea would come from Australia.
THE ORIGINAL NEWS HAS NO POLITICS BUT WAHT DO WE HEAR FROM Pan-Africanist International
PLEASE STOP GMO TESTING>
Author: I. OP. Posted: 2012-10-13 04:13:43 PLease we appealing to the government to stop GMO testing in Ghanaian soil.
I have met a lot of scientist in Uk in ecological and biological meetings in many UK Universities and research Stations in which many of them are sceptical about GMO so why wholly accepting accepting it now.
Even recent research using GMO crops
feeding rats indicated that it has been causind cancer in them
CREATE MAN AND FEED THAT MAN GMO
Author: PETER Posted: 2012-10-13 08:12:38 NOT MAN THAT SOMEONE ELSE CREATED!!!THEY ARE GOING TOO FAR AND IT´S AN INSULT TO THE ALMIGHTY.
MONSANTO LOBBYIST AS FDA CHIEF!
Author: OH GHFUO, we are so far behind! Posted: 2012-10-13 12:20:13 OBAMA RECENTLY NAMED GMO LOBBYIST FOR MONSANTO AS FDA HEAD...EEEEI!
HOW CAN A PRESIDENT WHO HAS A GARDEN IN THE WHITEHOUSE HAND PICK A MONSANTO LOBBYIST AS THE NEW FOOD AND DRUGS BOARD CHIEF?
DEY THERE...
MODIFYING FOOD CROPS WITH RNAI IS UNSAFE, UNPREDICTABLE.
THESE EXPERIMENTAL GENE TAMPERING IS ALREADY TAKING PLACE ELSEWHERE, AND IT IS PROVING TO BE A COMPLETE FAILURE.
IN AUSTRALIA, FOR INSTANCE, FIELD TRIALS OF A NOVEL VARIETY OF GM WHEAT WITH RNAI ALTERATIONS HAVE BEEN DISASTROUS, AS THE MODIFIED GENE EXPRESSIONS
IN THE WHEAT ARE ALSO MODIFYING HUMAN GENES IN THE LIVER. RESEARCHERS ARE NOW WARNING THAT HUMAN CHILDREN WHO EAT THIS GM WHEAT
COULD ACTUALLY DIE BEFORE REACHING THE AGE OF FIVE. DONT BE SUPRISED TO SEE SUCH CRAP BEING SHIPPED TO AFRICA TO FEEN MALNOURSHED CHILDREN. IN A BID
TO FURTHER DESECRATE THE POPULATIONS OF BLACKS ON THE CONTINENT...(WWW.NATURALNEWS.COM)
COLONIES OF BACTERIA ARE REPLICATING WITHIN THE INTESTINES, LONG AFTER THE GH FOOD WAS INGESTED. IF THIS HYPOTHESIS IS CORRECT, WE MIGHT SEE AN INCREASE
IN GASTROINTESTINAL PROBLEMS, AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES, FOOD ALLEGIES AND CHIKLDHOOD OBESITY, CHILDHOOD LEARNING DISORDERS
SINCE 1996 WHEN BT CROPS CAME ON THE MARKET. PHYSICIANS HAVE TOLD ME THAT THEY INDEED ARE SEEING SUCH AN INCREASE IN SUCH DISEASES...HEMMORROIDS, KOOKO,
CONSTIPATION ETC....THE QUESTION NOW IS, HOW DO WE PROTECT OURSELVES FROM BT TOXIN AND RID OURSELVES OF IT ONCE IT IS EXPOSED IN OUR
SYSTEMS?
ANSWER: ADOPT A 100 PERCENT FREE GMO FREE, ORGANIC DIET
USE RELIABLE WATER PURIFICATION LIKE REVERSE OSMOSIS THATV REVERSE CONTAMINANTS LIKE PESTICIDES
ADHERE TO ANTI CANDIDA PRINCIPLES WHICH BALANCE GOOD FLORA WITHIN THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
TRY HERBAL ANTIBIOTICS LIKE OLIVE LEAF EXTRACT, OIL OF OREGANO, CATS CLAW, GARLIC AND COLLODIAL SILVER TO FORGET HARMFUL PATHOGENS
CONSUME PROBIOTIC RICH FOODS SUCH AS NON PASTEURIZED KIMCHI AND SAUERKRAUT, YOGURT AND KEFIR
INGEST PLENTY OF FIBER TO PUSH DANGEROUS ORGANISMS OUT OF THE SYSTEM
AVOID SUGAR AND PROCESSED FOODS AS BOTH ARE FUEL FOR HARMFUL BACTERIA IN THE GUT STREAM AND BLADDER
GMO FOODS HAVE BEEN SHOWN BEYOND A DOUBT TO DESTROY HEALTH IN HUMANS AND ANIMALS ALIKE
BOYCOTT GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS, DETOXIFY AND SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE DANGERS BEFORE ITS TOO LATE
THE WORLD IS FULL OF OVERPOPULATION. GMO CROPS WILL MAKE SURE WE HAVE ENUFF FOOD TO FEED THE MASSSES, BUT THE DOWNSIDE TO THIS IS IT WILL
ALSO KILL MORE PEOPLE, MUCH QUICKER. PEOPLE WILL BEGIN TO HAVE SHORTER LIFE SPANS. THE TREND HAS ALREADY BEGUN
GMO
Author: Timur Posted: 2012-10-13 12:48:46 Ghanaians are VERY Intelligent and WISE. YES. Keep UP the Good Work
Let the Europeans Eat ALL the GMO foods- and watch them DIE
GMO and GHANA
Author: Timur Posted: 2012-10-13 12:50:34 DITTO: FAYO MOKO LONG LIVE THE VERY INTELLIGENT AFRICANS
Re: Ghanaians Unanimously Reject GMO Testing!
Author: word Posted: 2012-12-03 10:04:20 ts unbelievable that they real think about it. Japans say we will watch the american children 10 years. russians forbidd it in tests with mouses were …thinks growin on them ..mouses couldn’t get childs and become half of there size of the brothers. Germany forbid it hole fuckin europa forbid it the most educated country. Kenya just banned it Millions of people in america fight against it. studies in ghana already show whats happen to thier childs. Farmers losing every thing. in german TVs you see Dokus how bad monsanto is. And that dump ass uncle tom niggas still talkin it is a good think for the West african country..after that he is going be sucking some white dicks. sorry to say that but im tiered of this bimbos even the atta millz ceremony …EVErybody was feeling how the kolonial spirit was coming…Hahaha my first time in Ghana was quite embarassing but only the goveurner
…………..Aaafter …all theses History… now neocolonialsimen they still trust them and let them give thier food to our children. WAAAazuP
.Afrrican countrys need sombody who was grown up in the modern western world and a in a African culture. these people there dont know anything even kufour was promoting a nuclearstation with design of the explodet one in Japan. With that food our DNA.. the base of what God gave us will be destroyed slowly and deadly when you think its a JOke fuck you …you Blind. This Brother who always talkin good in front many… they real think the world is in Peace know. Africans should learn their history and the
the European. They could learn much I did. Because Europ is a continent who is growin in a nother time and we could learn why for example the sociaty is know fuckd up. BUt Africans do every thing what foreigners say. Fuck it im out.
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