Genetically Engineered Bt Cotton In Ghana

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• Conventional Youth. 12 years ago

  Why there- OMG

  Why there- OMG

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

  Hmm! Only one solitary comment and it hardly makes sense! Ghanaians! If it were something abt Woyome or the elections, this trend would have been flooded with all kinds of junk from the members of the Brotherhood. I am not sa ...
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  Hmm! Only one solitary comment and it hardly makes sense! Ghanaians! If it were something abt Woyome or the elections, this trend would have been flooded with all kinds of junk from the members of the Brotherhood. I am not saying they might still not do so.
  
  Anyway, I've to say this well written article is not only alarming, as it sheds another light on the GE debate, esp. the reported Burkinabe success, but it must serve as a wake up call to the authorities and civil society. Just a while ago, I watched on CNN that Kenyan Prof of Harvard, Calestuous, oozing lyrically about the GE cotton success in Burkina. Despite what I already knew about the hazards of GE crops, I was almost sold on the idea of adopting same elsewhere. Now this! So let's stop and reflect!
  
  Andy-K

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• Kwesi Mensah 12 years ago

  Ghana's rotten ruling class will do anything for money! Parliament under K4 received bribes from Vodafone to give away entire telecom infrastructure for peanuts. We saw how both the NPP and NDC governments and our judiciary c ...
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  Ghana's rotten ruling class will do anything for money! Parliament under K4 received bribes from Vodafone to give away entire telecom infrastructure for peanuts. We saw how both the NPP and NDC governments and our judiciary connived, colluded, and collaborated with foreign entities in the now well-known, infamous "judgement debt" payments. What else wouldn't they do? Anything for personal profit, damn if the nation burns!
  
  Europe has been forcefully standing up to the notorious purveyor of GMO poisons, Monsanto, so much so that Monsanto has announced it won't try marketing there anymore. Why, oh why, will African elites accept what Europe has rejected???
  
  Not only are GMO crops hazardous in themselves but they can also contaminate non-GMO crops airborne proximity. It is entirely possible that some of the cotton farms along Ghana's border with Burkina have been contaminated already. As a matter of national security Ghana should be stockpiling samples of all of its food and cash crop seeds - for any eventuality, particularly against contamination and extinction. But, as I have no hope that our corrupt, ignorant and incompetent ruling class will take this course of action, I appeal to conscientious Agriculture students and lecturers at our universities to start this security stockpiling project even with most rudimentary methods and facilities at their disposal. If I may add, the purveyors of GMO poisons have been stockpiling original seeds! Shouldn't we too?

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• Whatever 12 years ago

  Parliament has failed this nation. how can you approve a bill which goes to the heart of the gene pool of the nation with the effect of changing it. We are what we eat. And if parliament doesn't know this then I'm sorry for t ...
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  Parliament has failed this nation. how can you approve a bill which goes to the heart of the gene pool of the nation with the effect of changing it. We are what we eat. And if parliament doesn't know this then I'm sorry for this country. You eat these things and you begin to accept gay and lesbianism as normal. They don't even know the real intention behind this GMO campaign in Ghana

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• kusi 12 years ago

  hey get away with your lies

  hey get away with your lies

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• Sankofa 12 years ago

  This is sheer madness!!
  
  Stop the trials at once!
  
  We do not need GM in our country.
  
  Why do we want to adopt a technology whose safety is not proven?
  
  New Zealand has banned the use of GM.
  
  If those countries which ...
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  This is sheer madness!!
  
  Stop the trials at once!
  
  We do not need GM in our country.
  
  Why do we want to adopt a technology whose safety is not proven?
  
  New Zealand has banned the use of GM.
  
  If those countries which invented GM are not prepared to use the technology on their own people, why should we be guinea pigs for trialling GM.
  
  We have enough problems as it is without importing more from outside.
  
  Stop this trial at once!!

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• OSAHENE MARTIN 12 years ago

  The question here is now that they have invested in trials in ghana here of which I know of one trial fields and paying huge amount to care takers, can it be abandoned? Hmmmm.

  The question here is now that they have invested in trials in ghana here of which I know of one trial fields and paying huge amount to care takers, can it be abandoned? Hmmmm.

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