Genetically engineered foods & excessive chemical usage

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• Komi dzako 11 years ago

  Mauling u clearly missed the point,please take your time and research properly you would be amazed at what gmos when handled properly can do for developing countriesy

  Mauling u clearly missed the point,please take your time and research properly you would be amazed at what gmos when handled properly can do for developing countriesy

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• Nana Oben 11 years ago

  You sound as stupid as those so-called PhD's in Ghana on the pay of the Agro-conglomerates to establish new markets in Ghana and Africa. What did the author say that is untrue? Isn't EVEN the West now realizing that NATURALLY ...
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  You sound as stupid as those so-called PhD's in Ghana on the pay of the Agro-conglomerates to establish new markets in Ghana and Africa. What did the author say that is untrue? Isn't EVEN the West now realizing that NATURALLY GROWN (ORGANIC) foods ARE BETTER (HEALTHIER) THAN CHEMICAL SATURATED OR GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS?

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• insight to the bone 11 years ago

  dont mind these ayigbe criminals who have been bribed into compliance by the monsato lobbyists with millions . whatever they do we shall reverse when the war comes

  dont mind these ayigbe criminals who have been bribed into compliance by the monsato lobbyists with millions . whatever they do we shall reverse when the war comes

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• VAQ 11 years ago

  YOU ARE A BRAIN DEAD M/F. DO YOU GET THE CHANCE TO READ ? IN THE WESTERN COUNTRIES PEOPLE WITH MONEY AND KNOW HOW EAT ONLY ORGANIC FOODS, THEY DO NOT FU.. AROUND WITH THIS MONSATO GARBADGE. POOR AFRICAN FARMERS PLEASE REFRAIN ...
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  YOU ARE A BRAIN DEAD M/F. DO YOU GET THE CHANCE TO READ ? IN THE WESTERN COUNTRIES PEOPLE WITH MONEY AND KNOW HOW EAT ONLY ORGANIC FOODS, THEY DO NOT FU.. AROUND WITH THIS MONSATO GARBADGE. POOR AFRICAN FARMERS PLEASE REFRAIN FROM DEPENDING ON MONSATO. MONSATO IS DEADLY. WHY DO YOU THINK THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE COUNTRIES ARE FIGHTING IT, THERE MUST BE A REASON WHY. "INSIGHT TO THE BONE" IF THAT'S WHAT YOUR NAME IS GO AHEAD AND EAT ALL THE FOOD GENETICALLY MODIFIED BY MONSATO AND YOU WILL FIND THE RESULTS SOON. YOU FU... DUMB ASHANTI JUNKIE.

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• AMU 11 years ago

  Thank you Nana Oben.

  Thank you Nana Oben.

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• Akua 11 years ago

  No to GM foods! We need to protect our people from corrupt corporations who want to impose their nonsense on us. If GM is good for them, they should keep it for themselves.
  
  We need to protect ourselves.
  Our Leaders wake ...
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  No to GM foods! We need to protect our people from corrupt corporations who want to impose their nonsense on us. If GM is good for them, they should keep it for themselves.
  
  We need to protect ourselves.
  Our Leaders wake up from your slumber! We have to depend on ourselves. Protect us and the future generations.
  
  We have good fertile land and we must fight to keep it that way.
  
  NO TO GM CROP!!

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• kbee 11 years ago

  oh Ghana..... we everybody is rejecting it, we are debating it............

  oh Ghana..... we everybody is rejecting it, we are debating it............

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• YAKUBU 11 years ago

  The issue of this GMO foods and whatnots and it's adoption based on improved yields, more nutritious, drought resistant, less use of fertilizer etc, etc as a necessary prerequisite to food security especially in underdevelope ...
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  The issue of this GMO foods and whatnots and it's adoption based on improved yields, more nutritious, drought resistant, less use of fertilizer etc, etc as a necessary prerequisite to food security especially in underdeveloped countries such as those in Africa and Asia, based on projected population explosion and therefore a projected food insecurity situation again in the less developed countries is so myopic and lacks any cogent scientific positives/factors to support it's use.
  The notion that is has been engineered again to meet the supposed nutritional requirements by the proponents and advocates of the GMO foods is again without merit.
  The adoption of GMO foods from a scientific basis alone in terms of it's health implications has not been established effectively to be safe as a result of lack of detailed research over a long period of time to conclusively support same, and on this score, it needs to be rejected.
  Again, with respect to the sovereignty of the nation and the protection of our seed culture and bank, and not resort to foreign interests and corps, effectively, mortgaging our very existence to these interests to determine via genetic engineering what we consume is to sell our very lives to these interests and again on this score, this GMO foods thing needs to be rejected.
  Indeed, the issues that affects the lack of food is not solved by the adoption of GMO foods. The answer is infrastructural, economic and environmental in nature.
  One, we need well laid out access roads to the food basket regions of the country. These access roads are described as feeder roads. Gov't would need to prioritize and construct asphalt roads to these roads, since rainfall patterns are such that, these roads, get eroded every rainy season. As to how priority investment has not been directed at fixing these perennial problems beats ones imagination.
  Second, there should be inter-linkages to promote and increase the relative speed which food produce gets to the centers. Storage facilities need to be looked at. Ready market for food produce should be available to spur more production. Value addition to these foods would have to be looked at as well, to get money into the pockets of the farmers to produce more to feed the fresh produce market and also feed industry. Farming practices which are basically subsistence in nature would have to be completely looked at again and a shift made towards mechanized large scale agriculture and in this regard, our land tenure systems would have to be looked at, with policies and programs formulated to engender private sector investment in large scale mechanized farming with a ready market for food produce. The land degradation which is environmental in nature as a result of illegal mining activities which most often are as a result of farmers not making any money from their farming activities and therefore lease their lands or completely give them out for illegal mining activities would have to be addressed, since they feed on each other.
  The things that would need to ensure food security does not need GMO foods to solve by any stretch and this is the time for gov't to show leadership and address the identified issues which are affecting the agricultural sector and spare Ghanaians this Trojan horse of GMO foods, which is really a health hazard and an existential conundrum which Ghana cannot afford to saddle itself with, when the very bearers of this GMO foods proposition have been rejected completely without any reservation in their own backyard.

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• Kwame 11 years ago

  The European union has banned beef and seeds products of GMO origin from Canada. Ghana has a beautiful agricultural soil why do we need GMO products?
  Those Greedy Greedy Ghanaian Pocket Politicians will take 10% bribes to p ...
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  The European union has banned beef and seeds products of GMO origin from Canada. Ghana has a beautiful agricultural soil why do we need GMO products?
  Those Greedy Greedy Ghanaian Pocket Politicians will take 10% bribes to pass it into law.

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• Deceive 11 years ago

  We've been consuming too much chemicals already we don't need anymore chemicals.Fellow Ghanaians is time to fight for our food security and for the next generation to come. GMO is not good for humans at all. Please go to Goog ...
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  We've been consuming too much chemicals already we don't need anymore chemicals.Fellow Ghanaians is time to fight for our food security and for the next generation to come. GMO is not good for humans at all. Please go to Google Search and type (The Sick Story of Genetically Modified Organism video) and see it for yourselve.

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• Whatever 11 years ago

  You want to grow GMO foods and you think the Europeans or the Asians will continue buying your exports? Why can't leaders in this country think far. They're so myopic, you wonder.

  You want to grow GMO foods and you think the Europeans or the Asians will continue buying your exports? Why can't leaders in this country think far. They're so myopic, you wonder.

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• AMU 11 years ago

  Thanks!

  Thanks!

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