GM Technology to fight aflatoxins in maize - lecturer

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Mr. Questions 12 years ago

Prof. why are you so confident about
GMO ? I know you studied ecology. You should always tread very carefully whenever you change the natural balance of the ecosystem.

Compare and contrast natural rice to polished ric ...
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Prof. why are you so confident about
GMO ? I know you studied ecology. You should always tread very carefully whenever you change the natural balance of the ecosystem.

Compare and contrast natural rice to polished rice. Do you notice the rise in the number of dibetic patients Ghana on per annum basis ?

Do not blindly play with the natural order of things.
Wire 12 years ago

I live in Italy & in just this year, a private lab has planted a secret experimental GMO corn plants out on the field & as soon as the people living in this comunity got to know of this GMO plants, the people took the law int ...
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I live in Italy & in just this year, a private lab has planted a secret experimental GMO corn plants out on the field & as soon as the people living in this comunity got to know of this GMO plants, the people took the law into their own hands by grouping themselves & march to the field & destroy all this killer GMO corn plants. The good news here in Italy is that the Italian Government has banned any productions & the importations of ANY GMO foods, products & seeds. So does this quake Dr. Osei thinks he knows more than the Europeans? Many Europeans countries also banned all GMO products. Please just go to Youtube.com and search for " The GMO Threats" & also " Monsato" Please try spend few time to fully watch this & other related clips & you'll finally agree with me that we should all wakeup with our bow & arrows to chase out any person or company that wanna encourage any GMO pruduct in our country.
ZImla 12 years ago

How much did the Americans pay this bitch to lie.

How much did the Americans pay this bitch to lie.
FM 12 years ago

There are many things that are related to cancer and cancer causing chemicals etc etc. There is not one single definitive toxin with respects to the causal link to cancer. There is clear agenda here. This is to sell GM techno ...
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There are many things that are related to cancer and cancer causing chemicals etc etc. There is not one single definitive toxin with respects to the causal link to cancer. There is clear agenda here. This is to sell GM technology to African farmers and this is dangerous. It will create perpetual dependency on these companies for the provision of seeds and many other technology for farming. Not good!
OKRO 12 years ago

Hi Dr,am sorry upon reading this news am disappointed in you,if you really know the impact of GM foods on people,I can assure you,only greedy and selfish person who will encourage our poor farmers to go in for GM seed for cul ...
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Hi Dr,am sorry upon reading this news am disappointed in you,if you really know the impact of GM foods on people,I can assure you,only greedy and selfish person who will encourage our poor farmers to go in for GM seed for cultivation.Even an illiterate can tell that GM seeds will not only end up making them poorer but yet wipe out their ability to depend on their good healthy food they get.Please I will be glad if you can answer me why most often we have healthy and aged people in the villages healthy enough to go to farm alone and come back carrying heavy load of firewood of which you cannot carry yet people in the cities do not grow old yet full of strange sickness? Are you now going to deny them of this because of greed?
I wish you will have done research into that and use your findings to help your own people rather than to be spreading propaganda.Learn please those titles means nothing, what you are able to do to help your own people develop is what count. Is a shame Dr.
Madugu 12 years ago

where are the learned ones in ghana, let ur voice be heard on GM technology.

where are the learned ones in ghana, let ur voice be heard on GM technology.
OKRO 12 years ago

'To date most of the studies have been done on animals; worryingly, though, some of those studies link GM foods to altered metabolism, inflammation, kidney and liver malfunction, and reduced fertility. In one experiment, mult ...
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'To date most of the studies have been done on animals; worryingly, though, some of those studies link GM foods to altered metabolism, inflammation, kidney and liver malfunction, and reduced fertility. In one experiment, multiple generations of hamsters were fed a diet of GM soy; by the third generation, they were losing the ability to produce offspring, producing about half as many pups as the non-GM soy group.

In addition, allergy sufferers worry that, as genes are transferred between plants, allergenic proteins (from, say, peanuts or wheat) will pop up in unexpected places (like soy or sugar). Richard Goodman, PhD, a professor of food science and technology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a former scientist for Monsanto, says that seed companies run sophisticated tests to prevent that kind of mistake from happening. But inserting new genes into a seed's delicately constructed genome is always a gamble because scientists can't predict all the consequences. There is, for example, the possibility of creating brand-new allergens.

Dr.please if you were to take 3 minutes of your time to read you will have known this and saved yourself'.I believe you are good in your field than the professor of food science quoted above.Do you want to wipe out our ability to produce offspring so that you and those greedy people come and take our land? Again you are a shame to mother Ghana.
King David 12 years ago

First, according to the Human Development Index 2008, the 'developed world' is 14.6% of the total population. For the U.S Centre for Disease Control to say 4.5b of the 'developed world' ... implies the population of the world ...
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First, according to the Human Development Index 2008, the 'developed world' is 14.6% of the total population. For the U.S Centre for Disease Control to say 4.5b of the 'developed world' ... implies the population of the world is 48b plus. Do they think we don't think? Their cynical plot to kill all Africans will backfire. It's so sad that the 'educated' ones here are being used as their puppets. Secondly, To say GM tech will eliminate cancers, aaahhh, what a shame! OK, look, cancers are more prevalent in the so-called developed countries. Why has Europe Kicked-out GM? Is it that they love & want to die of their cancers? Shame on Dr Yaa Difie Osei & all those paid to destroy their kind.
ADWEN 12 years ago

You are simply naïve in you assertion and thinking that because "Genetically Modified food are scientifically generated", they are good to be experimented on Africans.
If it is so good why don't those who developed it apply ...
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You are simply naïve in you assertion and thinking that because "Genetically Modified food are scientifically generated", they are good to be experimented on Africans.
If it is so good why don't those who developed it apply it en masse in their economies but wanted to use Africans as guinea-pigs.
And instead of people like you analysing the impact on the African society you are just trying to sell this diabolical idea to Africans.
"Scientifically generated" does not imply perfection and with serious negative consequences. Let them use their Genetically Modified food technology for half a century before African decides to adopt it or not.
km agyin 12 years ago

Great idea. There has been an increase in primary liver cancers which can be related to aflatoxins.

Great idea. There has been an increase in primary liver cancers which can be related to aflatoxins.

Dr. P. Salifu 12 years ago

I do not know what exactly Dr. Osei might have said but it is not likely that GM can solve the problem of aflatoxins. Yes we can use other scientific approaches to reduce the burden. Over generalisation of the power of GM is ...
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I do not know what exactly Dr. Osei might have said but it is not likely that GM can solve the problem of aflatoxins. Yes we can use other scientific approaches to reduce the burden. Over generalisation of the power of GM is causing more harm to scientific community than good.
Gandalf 12 years ago

For goodness sake let us rise up against this GM Foods menace. These crops have the ability to withstand high concentrations of Roundup herbicides that are used to control weeds. However, the active agent in Roundup from Mons ...
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For goodness sake let us rise up against this GM Foods menace. These crops have the ability to withstand high concentrations of Roundup herbicides that are used to control weeds. However, the active agent in Roundup from Monsanto, is glyophosate which is highly CARCINOGENIC in PARTS PER TRILLION. When this chemical is used to spray these plants, they kill all weeds but they persist in the food and are ingested by man and animals. This leads to all kinds of cancers and other untold diseases we have no ability to handle. For my learned friends glibly promoting GM Technology in Ghana (I am a biochemist), they should be kind to themselves and all of us by just going on the Internet and reading broadly, even if what they find is unpalatable to their preferences, before they give us an informed position on these things. Frankly the research reports out there are not encouraging and very dangerous to say the least. Many nations have actually taken the step to ban GM foods from their shores. We must not let our poverty be aggravated by the introduction of more disease. May our policy makers wake up!!!
Samato 12 years ago

GET REAL. ARE YOU PART OF THEIR GM TESTING GOING ON IN GHANA?

GET REAL. ARE YOU PART OF THEIR GM TESTING GOING ON IN GHANA?
zomabi 12 years ago

PLEASE 4.5 BILLION PEOPLE DO NOT LIVE IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD. THE FIGURE IS FAR LESS THAN THAT. CHECK YOUR FACTS AND COME AGAIN

PLEASE 4.5 BILLION PEOPLE DO NOT LIVE IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD. THE FIGURE IS FAR LESS THAN THAT. CHECK YOUR FACTS AND COME AGAIN
Adongo 12 years ago

WHEN WILL GHANAIANS STOP WALLOWING IN IGNORANCE.AMERICANS ARE ALSO CONSUMING GM FOODS ,YOU IDIOT.AFLATOXINS HAVE BEEN LINKED TO CANCER FOR AGES ESPECIALLY LIVER CANCER,WHICH IS COMMON IN GHANA.THIS INDEED IS GOOD NEWS!

WHEN WILL GHANAIANS STOP WALLOWING IN IGNORANCE.AMERICANS ARE ALSO CONSUMING GM FOODS ,YOU IDIOT.AFLATOXINS HAVE BEEN LINKED TO CANCER FOR AGES ESPECIALLY LIVER CANCER,WHICH IS COMMON IN GHANA.THIS INDEED IS GOOD NEWS!
Sankofa 12 years ago

Dr Dufie, do you not realise the U.S Centre for Disease Control will say anything to get us to adopt GM technology?

Do you not appreciate the stark dangers of GM food to our people?

Do you not know that New Zealand has ...
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Dr Dufie, do you not realise the U.S Centre for Disease Control will say anything to get us to adopt GM technology?

Do you not appreciate the stark dangers of GM food to our people?

Do you not know that New Zealand has banned GM food?

Think carefully before you talk!

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