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Ghana must say NO to GM Foods – Dr. Kwame Osei

Feature Article Ghana must say NO to GM Foods – Dr. Kwame Osei
JUL 5, 2015 LISTEN

This article is in response to the headline on the front page of another paper that stated that pressure is being put on the government of Ghana to sanction the growing of Genetically Modified (GM) foods into Ghana. The essence of this article is to give both moral and ethical reasoning for avoiding GM foods.

Given this reality about the danger of GM Foods, Ghanaians and Afikans as a whole must not be deceived by the agenda being pushed by western governments , western NGO’s and western big business who have a diabolical agenda that GM food is the answer to Ghana’s and Afrika’s food security and is the solution to feeding Afrika\s growing populations.

The above assertions are complete falsehood as GM foods IS NOT the answer to Ghana’s and Afrika’s food security and the only reason why there is food insecurity in Afrika today that has led to the erroneous position of Afrikan countries importing food is due to wickedly corrupt economic policies imposed in Ghana and other Afrikan countries by the IMF to abandon their investment in agriculture and rather import food from others.

Secondly Afrika’s population is actually under populated and in actual fact the DR Congo has enough arable farmland to feed THE WHOLE OF AFRIKA!!

Before the advent of chemically enhanced food or Genetically Modified food Ghana was self-sufficient on food production and cultivation due to the great foresight of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah who built numerous, factories, farms, food warehouses and silos and even set up the Agricultural Development Bank, precisely for the developmental of Agric in Ghana to enable farmers to get access to cheap loans to help them in their farming endeavours!! Where is the ADB’s focus now, I wonder!!!

Also under General Kutu Acheampong Ghana had great initiatives like ‘Operation Feed Yourself’ where as a result of good leadership and vision that is lacking today in Ghana, Acheampong encouraged Ghanaians to grow food on any parcel of land they could get their hands on as he overstood that a nation should consume what it produced and produce what it consumed and not leave it to others to produce what it consumed!!

Again contrary to what is being said and the lies that western NGO's and BIG BUSINESS have peddled about it, GM Food is extremely dangerous because what the West and their scientists are not telling Afrikans is that GM foods contain poisonous organisms that are dangerous to the body's immune system as they are made with a cross-breed of different species rather than made the organic and natural way.

GM foods are even more deadly than food that is made using pesticides, DDT and other harmful chemicals.

Europe, as a result of these health concerns, has already banned the use of GM foods. In the UK, the heir to the British throne, His Majesty Prince Charles has been a vehement critic of GM foods citing that the science behind it is extremely alarming.

Prince Charles has a team of advisors and scientists who are extremely knowledgeable on this issue.

Furthermore Prince Charles, aware of the dangers GM foods possess, has his own Organic farm in Gloucestershire, where he grows Organic food in accordance with nature and free from dangerous chemicals like pesticides, DDT, fertilizers and so forth. Please read the following article by His Royal Highness from a recent edition of the Daily Mail - a UK based paper

Prince Charles Challenges British Government to Be Scientific Regarding Safety

Prince Charles has launched a scathing attack on genetically-modified products, and the UK Government has responded with annoyance and propaganda rather than science.

"In a recent article in the Daily Mail, Prince Charles poses a series of questions about the safety of GM foods and attacked the lack of independent scientific research. And he rejects the hype that GM crops represent a solution to feeding the world's growing population as a case of "emotional blackmail".

Asserting that the argument sounded "suspiciously like emotional blackmail," the Prince said the countries that could be expected to benefit took a different view.

Representatives of 20 African countries, including Ethiopia, had published a statement denying that gene technologies would help farmers to produce the food they needed.

"They think it will destroy the diversity, the local knowledge and the sustainable agricultural systems . . . and undermine our capacity to feed ourselves," said the Prince.

Deep divisions emerged within the British Government following the Prince's challenge. Although the Prime Minister's spokesman refused to be drawn into a direct clash with the Prince, it was clear there is considerable anger in Whitehall at the way he has re-ignited the debate in Britain on the issue.

The Prince's intervention has delivered a body blow to the government's attempts to re-assure corporations that their people could be made to accept unproven genetically modified crops as safe.

Here are the ten important unanswered questions posed by the Prince:

1. Do we need GM food in this country?
The Prince: The benefits, such as there are seem to be limited to the people who own the technology and the people who farm on an industrialized scale.

2. Is GM food safe for us to eat?
The Prince: Only independent scientific research, over a long period, can provide the final answer.

3. Why are the final rules for approving GM foods so much less stringent than those for new medicines produced using the same technology?

The Prince: Before drugs are released on to the market they have to undergo the most rigorous testing...Surely it is equally important that [GM foods] will do us no harm.

4. How much do we really know about the environmental consequences of GM crops?

The Prince: Lab tests showing that pollen from GM maize in the United States caused damage to the caterpillars of Monarch butterflies provide the latest cause for concern. More alarmingly, this GM maize is not under test

5. Is it sensible to plant test crops without strict regulations in place?

The Prince: Such crops are being planted in this country now - under a voluntary code of practice. But English Nature has argued that enforceable regulations should be in place first.

6. How will consumers be able to exercise genuine choice?

The Prince: Labeling schemes clearly have a role to play, but if conventional and organic crops are contaminated by GM crops, people who wish to avoid GM food products will be denied choice

7. If something goes wrong with a GM crop, who will be held responsible?

The Prince: It is important that we know precisely who is going to be legally liable to pay for any damage - whether it be to human health, the environment or both.

8. Are GM crops really the only way to feed the worlds growing population?

The Prince: This argument sounds suspiciously like emotional blackmail to me.

9. What effect will GM crops have on the people of world's poorest countries?

The Prince: Where people are starving, lack of food is rarely the underlying cause. The need is to create sustainable livelihoods for everyone. Will GM crops really help or will they make the problems worse?

10. What sort of world do we want to live in?
The Prince: Are we going to allow the industrialization of life itself, re-designing the natural world for the sake of convenience? Or should we be adopting a gentler, more considered approach, seeking always to work with the grain of nature?

The above article from the heir to the British throne poses some very serious questions that Ghanaians should be aware of before we even contemplate the idea of consuming such dangerous food.

An American company called Monsanto has been commissioned to look into the possibility of cultivating GM Food on a large scale in Ghana/Afrika. By the way Monsanto is a biotech company owned by the American elite who are a part of the secret world government, the illuminati.

Monsanto and their monopoly on the GM foods market are very dangerous and they are aggressively targeting the Afrikan market.

For those who want to know more about the dangerous Monsanto Company and the evils of GM food, I recommend you watch the French documentary, called "The world according to Monsanto" directed by independent filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin, which paints a grim picture of a company with a long track record of environmental crimes and health scandals.

After seeing "The world according to Monsanto", Greenpeace International campaigner Geert Ritsema said: Mrs. Robin should be congratulated for revealing the sinister practices of the world's leading producer of genetically engineered seeds. Her film is alarming and should be a call to action for everybody who cares about the quality of our food and a healthy future for our planet."

The above is a very serious warning to those who want to engage in this diabolical practice of cultivating and consuming GM foods in Ghana.

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