Kenya BANS All GMO Foods
The Government has banned the importation of Genetically Modified foods popularly known as GMOs. The ban announced by Public Health minister Beth Mugo follows growing SAFETY concerns over the consumption of GMOs. The directive is expected to take effect immediately, a move that may see dealers of GMO products lose out.
Source: NTV (http://www.ntv.co.ke)
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Good job! If only America would catch up.
And who in the congress would dare speak against GMO’s. All you eat and drink are practically processed GMO’s.
The US will never do this as Monsanto has way too much political influence. This needs to stop.
Yeah! Kenya. Good for you!
Why can’t America wake up?? Good for you Kenya!
…..Why? Because Monsanto is based on a political slant and control – that’s why.
Two words, norman borlaug, look him up.
THANK YOU ALLEN!!!
God Bless you, KENYA!!!!! From the World’s original breadbasket will come the direction……
Yes, god bless you kenya for turning away the technology that could help feed your population! Way to go!
even beggars know better than to eat cancerogenics.
Like i said, norman borlaug, look him up. He had no stake in gmo’s, he just wanted to feed people. With a phd in plant biology and genetics, he saved a billion people using exactly what you are putting down. He does not use scare tactics, he did not make unproven claims. To say gmo’s cause cancer is just scare tactics.
Yet he was demonized by the anti gmo people, claiming he used animal dna and other nonsense. Fear is a great motivator.
Allen – TRY READING and RESEARCHING. You may learn something.
Defenately inform yourself!
Ces technologies tuent la Terre!
Pour des aliments sains et pas de pseudo nourriture trafiquée qui empoisonne l’organisme comme ceux proposés par Monsanto et Co et qui sont une garantie d’appauvrissement des paysans qui perdent leur liberté et leur autonomie à cultiver ce que bon leur semble et ne peuvent pas se permettre d’ acheter des graines vu que ces semences n’en produisent pas des nouvelles; encore moins les poisons cancérigènes nécessaires aux cultures de ces semences.
Pour un retour à des cultures équilibrées en harmonie avec la Mère Terre, à des semences autochtones, rustiques, plus résistantes,….. Il existe aujourd’hui bcp de solutions et de personnes qui se battent dans ce sens.
Tout le reste n’est que de la manipulation. Consciences, réveillez vous!
Le changement viendra de chacun de nous qui arrêterons ,à notre niveau, de participer à cette mascarade macabre
Cherchez sur le net de meilleures explications comme par exemple de Vandana Shiva , Pierre Rabhi,….
Salutations
Translate if you can!
Bees and butterflies have declined by about 50% in just 20 years, in countries like the UK and US. Humans are a dominant species on this planet. Would you rather see our birth rate increase, or see beautiful insects become extinct? I realise mouths need to be fed, and people need extra food in order to live longer, healthier lives. But I would rather our crops were pollinated naturally. I feel optimistic there must be a way of the world gradually becoming more organic in farming, yet still producing enough food for everyone. Bhutan has become the world’s first organic country. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Marie Stopes charity are doing great work in empowering families in the third world to plan, and finding innovative new methods of sanitation and water purification.
Allen Grerr, continue eating your GMO-tainted foods and check back with us in a few years. Oh, and research what’s happening in India due to GMOs.
Way to go Kenya. Now I’d like to know why America cannot wake up!!!
Because, in America,
Monsanto has more power than the people.
Proud of my government
Absolutely Allen, Norman Borlaug should be canonised for what he has done for humanity!!
I did look him up. He started his career at DuPont, a chemical plant. He was developing a water resistant glue among other things. Do you really think that someone who was making glue should be messing with our food? Studies have proven that GMO’s continue to cause the cells in the lining of our intestines to produce insecticides for a long time even after we stop ingesting them. And he should be canonized for this? I don’t think so.
GMO-phobes are the climate deniers of the “green” world. No science supports their hysterical claims about the negative health effects of GM foods, so they have to parade around in hazmat suits waving pictures of corn with fangs. I’m not kidding. Corn with fangs — that is the intellectual level at which these guys argue.
gravytop what you say is actually not entirely correct and your attitude towards GMOs in not at all empirical, so one may say the same about your declaration that “no science supports” . . . Monsanto’s website’s claim that: “There is no need for, or value in testing the safety of GM foods in humans.” This viewpoint, while good for business, is built on an understanding of genetics circa 1960. It follows what’s called the “Central Dogma” of genetics, which postulates a one-way chain of command between DNA and the cells DNA governs.
The 21st century has brought new concepts in to play, such as miRNA where the idea that we are what we eat is being supported by scientific investigation.
If Monsanto was being completely transparent you would think that they would welcome a thorough FDA examination of all its products – of course that would suspend their sales for almost a decade, which again is not a good business model.
Once again I offer you this easy to read article that provides links to further, deeper science:
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http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/01/the-very-real-danger-of-genetically-modified-foods/251051/
30% of its population suffers from hunger, yet you hippies think this is a good that the Kenyan government decided to stop importing food.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_percentage_of_population_suffering_from_undernourishment
Thanks, C
it may not be as healthy to eat unorganic food (as some say) but the fact of the matter is THERE IS NOT ENOUGH OF THAT TO GO AROUND. You eat whatever you want, but If I haven’t eaten in days and someone comes to me with GMO (genetically modified for greater output, mind you) I would be kissing their feet!
Producing food is one thing (animals eating 10 times the weight of what they produce is a factor when considering if there is enough food on this planet), then of course there is always what we do with food once it is produced.. . .
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20968076
or
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/half-food-produced-thrown-away-040310569.html
If people stopped eating meat and dairy (which are agreed to be unsustainable because of the huge land use, water use and the methane production) there would be plenty enough grains and vegetables to go round even the increasing population. We don’t need GMO for that.
Peggy, you conviently leave out the fact that he had a phd in plant biology and genetics, yeah lets just gloss over that fact when deciding if he should be messing with our food. Really?
And yes peggy i am sure the billion people he saved are super worried, or perhaps they should just say thank you that they are still alive.
and your statement that gmo’s cause our own cells to produce insecticides just makes no sense whatsoever. So you are saying that our cells which absorb nutrients, somehow learn to produce man made pesticides? Not biologically possible, nice try.
Ok the study you refer to,incorrectly, says that gmos may cause bactreria in ou r digestive system to produce pesticides found in gmo’s. The key word being may, not does. The staement “breathing air may cause aliens to consider us hostile” is just as valid of a statement.
You wonder why white greedy business men hate educated non-whites. They can’t bs you!
Actually allen grerr – you need to get ahead of the game – what was overlooked is that all life is a vast bio-feedback-loop and that it happens at DNA/RNA level.
There is a difference between growing better strains of productive wheat and inserting insecticide DNA into the genome.
Humans are displaying trauma around GMO food.
Also – Monsanto is not about feeding the starving millions, it is about selling “Roundup-ready” plants so it can make a profit on chemicals – just as it sold Agent Orange to the US Airforce to deforest Vietnam.
So the apple has not fallen far from the tree.
Well done Kenya for putting up against the multinational (greedy) corporations.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/01/the-very-real-danger-of-genetically-modified-foods/251051/
Thank you for this post. Most people don’t understand the difference between GMO and the green revolution which are 2 different things.
Generally GMO’s are considered to be organisms that have been tinkered with, at a molecular level, in a lab. This is very different than what Norman Borlaug did to save a billion people from starving.
He did genetic selection breeding with various grains that were naturally able to cross-breed. Not at all what is considered “GMO”. He cross-bred plants that could have cross-bred in the wild. He just did so with more focus and purpose in order to create grains with specific attributes. This is no different that what humans have been doing with dogs since the dawn of man. For these things that he’s done, he totally deserves the credit , and nobel peace prize, that he’s been given.
Where he has potentially erred is in his endorsement of all things GMO, which we simply don’t know the full effects of yet, because GMO experiments are playing around with the mechanics and coding of genetics and epi-genetics that we don’t yet fully understand either.
“C”
You state: “30% of its population suffers from hunger, yet you hippies think this is a good that the Kenyan government decided to stop importing food.”
and use Wikipedia as your source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_percentage_of_population_suffering_from_undernourishment
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Firstly, Kenya is not stopping the import of food, it is forbidding the use of GMO seed. This seed is not viable for more than one crop and has to be repurchased every season. This makes no economic sense for a relatively “poor” country
Secondly the seed that is being promoted by Monsanto is either first generation (Roundup-ready) or second generation (has an artificially inserted insecticide in the genome) or both. Now, Roundup has some very specific problems around humans, not least its half-life and the ability to bind with the soil, while altered genomes have not been tested to FDA standards and in fact have not been tested at all to any kind of health and safety standard recognised by any government anywhere in the world.
Thirdly, calling people who disagree with you a “hippy” shows remarkable lack of depth. Most of the music you like was probably made by “hippies”, the computer you use and the programs it runs were pioneered by “hippies”. You know calling people names does not make them vanish in a puff of psychedelic smoke . . .
Oh, and lastly – one third of Kenyan population suffers from malnutrition because of systematic political abuse, not because of lack of farmland or the need for some corporate bod from the USA telling the locals what seeds to use. – let Kenyans figure out what is right and what is wrong for themselves
Bravo Antony!
@ Antony Sharman
if I could give you a “thumb up”, right now you’d have one from me. But because i can’t, I will just say: Thank you for one of the best comments, so far.
Thank you anthony great information.
AWESOME, well put ANTHONY! Am Kenyan but living in America. Am glad my government has taken this stance against Monsanto and its carcinogenic GMO “technology”. The food in America tastes like crap. The rest of the world wouldn’t even dare feed it to their farm animals then along comes big and mighty USA that figures pink slime will do just fine for kids in school. SMH!
Antony- Bravissimo!
thank you!
Antony Sharman thank you! Great info.
Just because this person had good intentions doesn’t mean that the result was good. These GMO foods are no good for the human body and I applaud Kenya who is one nation among others that has put a stop to this. The reason why America won’t wake up is because they are already awake. The powers that be know whats up. Do you think Norman feeds his family that shit. The food was engineered to feed the poor people and nations and the majority of the poor nations are in Africa so who really cares if a couple million black nations go under. They started with Aids now they want to finish them off with wide spread cancers.
COUPLE MILLION BLACK PEOPLE NOT NATIONS. SORRY
Am Kenyan and i wish to hope this would be implemented but it will never be …. first there is not altenative in place second the government doesnt have any sort of will to do anything constructive for her people unless there is some sort of financial gain for the ruling elite so we just wont see this happening
good on you kenya…well done..now we need south africa to follow 2
I sincerely hope South Africa complies with this too…..I have checked with a few major supermarkets who assure me that vegetables are NOT GM grown….
Come on people, if you seriously think that we will continue on the path we are on without using GM foods then YOU need to get back to the real world and get your head out of this Utopian dream. Our species CANNOT be sustained without intervention.
Easy way to solve it. Everyone grow their own food and kill their own animals…
Can you see this happening? Really?
Didn’t think so……..
Allen, did you gloss over the world has 1.5 times the amount of food yet starving people. It corporations that cause this waste and exactly what Kenya has chosen not to allow. GMO are not food they are a product that cost money and make people wealthy, serving interests beyond that of the mouths they feed which is precisely why the ban is in place here and not in the country profiting from its use.
Smokingcrack I mean monkey, if we didn’t kill animals and just ate the plant foods ourselves we would have twice as much food. Educate yourself before making comments about something as dire as the future of our species.
Very wise decision
Stick to Karate, kid.
Genetically modified food so that they have no seeds to grow more food … Seems kind of illogical to me, like teaching a man to buy a fish instead of how to fish. Since when did anyone give a fuck about starving Africans. Money is all $$$ GMO corps care about.
Again, can you see us all turning Veggie?!?
I’m just pointing out that if we want rid of all GM foods, then there HAS to be a huge changes made. And we all know how much Governments and corporations applaud ideas that will eventually lose them money.
C’mon guys, not in our lifetime!
ALLEN !SHUT UP YOU IDIOT
Stop leaving your stupid opinions about what the people of other places have decided to do. Put your nose somewhere else and drop the American approach to be so entitled to give an opinion and solve the worlds problems. They are an independent country, BACK OFF!!!
ALL the best to Kenya!
I don’t undurstand MONSANTO what is problem if they say GMO FOOD=There is nothing poison, than WHY NOT ALLOW LABELING GMO FOOD?
there’s too many humans on this planet. if bio diversity suffers due to our presence and if there is not enough food to go around without having to tinker with the plants we grow for sustenance than our population must go down. that’s what i think.
Whether there is a problem or not with GMO, the fact is the promoters lobby very hard not to have their inclusion listed in the ingredients, using tactics much like the tobacco companies. That just makes people suspicious and leads to many thinking that they are hiding something. Just list it on the label and let the consumer decide!!!
YES,….Monsanto must label its foods–it is only fair. If they did not fear repercussions from traceable illness, they would not fight the labeling of their GM foods. I heard Monsanto was in court for hiding evidence that 54 cattle in its ownership had died from eating GM corn, and the case was picking up steam…anyone else onto this? In any case, Monsanto couldnt care less about starving people or farmers getting hurt by its practices. Its push and shove to plant thousands of acres of GM corn in Mexico–the birthplace of corn–where every rural family has their own heritage seeds chosen to excel in their type of soil and exposure to heat and cold etc-across the country–will bring the Mexian farmers nothing but grief, for Monsanto’s GM pollen will snuff out their corn’s site-specific excellence won over centuries across the land, and they will lose their independence and be done out of a way of life that was life itself..
And then Mexican family farmers will have to BUY Monsanto’s hated seed, and that is not the end of it. The GM corn the indigenent farmer then has to grow will fail under the spread of Monsanto’ s super-weeds—unless they also use those super poisons to keep the weeds down. It is a vicious cyle of abuse, and Monsanto in North America has proven to be a monster without mercy– and woe on the country that does not boot it out, and gets sucked into monstrous trade deals that will not let you even save your own land and your own family from the jackboots of corporate powers seeking ever more power and control.
NEW YORK, New York, November 2, 2009 (ENS) Investors from capital-rich nations that cannot produce enough food for their own consumption are squeezing small farmers in poor countries off their lands, new research has found.
http://ens-newswire.com/2013/01/12/rich-countries-feeding-on-poor-countries-farmland/
I’m shocked to read the comments in defense of GMO foods. A person can rattle off all the scientific jargon they like but it does not change the fact that 1. we do not have a clue what the long term affects are and 2. the current studies show GMO foods are dangerous. Period. Learn from past mistakes, like Thalidomide. It was marketed as a safe anti-nausea and sedative for pregnant women but the results of that drug only took 9 months to discover the FDA made a huge mistake. The evidence that GMO’s are dangerous is obvious but are being ignored because of the MONEY, POWER and CONTROL they bring. Those who believe GMO’s are designed to promote altruistic ideals like feeding the people of the world are sadly delusional. Wake up people, think for yourselves, do your homework. http://zesterdaily.com/world/gmos-indian-farmers-and-a-new-film-bitter-seeds/ http://www.naturalnews.com/037249_GMO_study_cancer_tumors_organ_damage.html http://grist.org/list/study-gmo-crops-are-killing-butterflies/ http://non-gmoreport.com/articles/apr07/gm_crops_killing_bees.php
Just as shocked! How anyone can defend GMO’s is beyond my understanding. I am so proud of Kenya, and hope my country, South Africa, will follow suite soon!
I don’t know anything about the science of wether GM food is good or bad for you. Both sides have plausible arguments. What does concern me is that the seeds are sterile. In subsistence farming, which is practised by the majority of developing countries, seeds are held back from one year to the next. It seems like we are pushing people into a cash/capitalist market and taking away their freedom and autonomy if every year they need to buy seeds.
How do they know they will always have the money to buy seeds? If they can’t afford the seeds why keep the land. If they sell the land who buys it? Large international corporations perhaps? What will they grow there – food for that country or cheap food for the west or perhaps cut flowers for supermarkets? ( Seriously kenya is a massive producers of flowers) And if the local people don’t grow their own food what will they do? Move to cities to work in factories? And what will they be making in the factories? Things to aid their countries development or cheap t-shirts for the west using toxic chemicals or un-safe practices?
To be able to grow your own food leaves you in an extremely powerful position to determine your own future. Climate change is causing chaos and distribution factors and debt is often at the root of famine. Did you know that Ethiopia would be almost self-sufficient in food if it wasn’t selling its grain to pay off international debt and if its roads and train system was not being blown up by civil war?
Also – we may not all become self-sufficient but just growing a little bit of your own food can make a difference. In England during WWII there was the “Dig for Victory” campaign. Through encouraging people to convert their gardens into vegetable production the country. They produced 2-3 million tons of food. Amazing!
Read this if you are interested http://wartimegardening.co.uk/dig-for-victory/
Also on a recent stop over in South Korea I walked around the neighbourhood where my hotel was. I was amazed by the amount of food they seemed able to produce in their tiny garden plots. No lawns or flowers but veg growing in every centimetre! I was inspired!
Last year a friend gave me a chilli plant she had grown from a seed from a chilli she had bought in a shop. It produced many chilies. I kept some seeds and now have 7 more chilli plants growing. I would not be able to do this if it was GM. I can now grow almost all the chillies I need instead of buying them. Seems to me this is a small scale version of what will probably happen in developing countries if they use GM food. Or am I wrong?
Very well done, Kenya!!! Wish every country in the world will follow your example!!
a very important step foward!
Now lets ban corruption. That’s the real problem!
Help little Barbados in the Caribbean…sign my petition to do the same here! We are one world and must hold hands across the waters and do what is right for our earth!!
http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/CLEAN_UP_BARBADOS_NO_TO_MONSANTO_YES_TO_ORGANIC/?fcAByeb&pv=2
Very very proud of Kenya!!! Please let us see a domino effect….