SUASA Calls on Western Regional Mps to Declare Their Position on the Plant Breeders Bill and the Bio

SUASA Calls on Western Regional Mps to Declare Their Position on the Plant Breeders Bill and the Bio-safety Act

The Suaman Students and Associate, a student group in the Northern part of the Western region, in the Suaman Dadieso district, is calling on all the MPs in the western region of Ghana to declare their position on the Plant Breeders Bill and the Bio-safety Act, which is at the consideration stage before parliament.

The association which is based in the western region, is not only concerned about promoting higher education in the Suaman district and beyond but, also care about one thing without which man cannot survive, which is food and it's security and how food will continue to be the best and first medicine to mankind.

The association believes that, what is about to gain grounds in our country is about life and death and the last and final stage of neo-colonialism, a deliberate and the legal way of a country selling out her citizens not even to a country but a group of people headed by MONSANTO.

In view of the above, SUASA describes any form of silence as criminal and indifferent especially on the part of our Honourable members of Parliament and we say this for the following reasons:

Our members of Parliament are in the legislature to represent our interest and representation includes protection, which includes protection from food poisoning and the general health of the people they represents.

Secondly, the negative effect the nation will experience when this bill becomes law, will be irreversible so we are begging them not to experiment with human lives in any case, the best experiment is already done by those who want to bring GMO to Ghana and our MPs know the American scientists who love humanity didn't use human beings to test GMOs instead, they used rats and pigs

Thirdly, as we said earlier, the pending bill and the already passed, Bio-safety Act are about life and death, SUASA is reminding our Hon. MPs to know that when Ghanaians start dying; no one will point accusing fingers at MONSATO but our MPs.

In other words, our MPs will be supervising the mass killing of the same people they were elected to defend and protect if they refuse to reject these bills.

Finally, SUASA is re-emphasizing on why our MPs must not keep quiet and how criminal it will be to be quiet on the issue of GMOs. We also believe that, since our MPs have more followers than any organization, their public education or debate will let the people, for the first time, begin to find out more about the issue at hand.

We therefore combine our right and their responsibility to call on all the MPs in the Western region to come out and tell the world their position on the Plant Breeders Bill and the Bio-safety Act which was passed in 2011and also to educate their constituents and the nation on what is about to come upon mother Ghana.

Members of parliament per the nature of their work and their title as representatives and law makers, suppose to educate their constituents on bill before it becomes law, but the opposite is what we see in Ghana. Though, SUASA can speak for our MP and all the western regional MPs, the association can risk and bet that, the Ghanaian MPs' deliberate refusal to inform and educate their constituents on issues that becomes laws in the country is 99% poor.

SUASA have read the Plant Breeders Bill and sees it as a threat to human survival. The bill when becomes a law, will increase the already hardship the Ghanaian farmers are going through.

The deceptive nature of the bill eludes majority of its readers, but taking time to read over and over again, SUASA concludes that, the decorated name Plant Breeding is about nothing but Genetically Modified Organisms (G.M.Os) and GMO is nothing but the creation of jobs and money for a multinational companies who are losing their markets in the developed world due to the poisonous nature of their food product and the negative effect GMOs have on the environment and the water bodies.

Some of the reasons the pushers of GMOs give to governments all over the world is food security in the world, but if you've been to any of the farming communities in Ghana, which includes the western region, one will come to the conclusion that, Ghana can never face food problem if our leaders will protect our air-space from been sprayed by the same multinational companies who creates artificial climate conditions in order to introduce seeds that can withstand all weather conditions.

The above mentioned bill is aimed at protecting breeders of new varieties of plants according to the first paragraph of the MEMORANDUM on the Plant Breeders Bill. 'The purpose of this bill is to establish a legal framework to protect the rights of breeders of new varieties of plants or plant groupings and to promote the breeding of new varieties of plants aimed at improving the quantity and quality and cost of food, fuel, fiber and raw materials for industry'.

Ladies and gentlemen, such a reason is something no one in his or her rightful sense should protest against. Because there is nothing wrong with one eating from what he has worked for. But this is a different case altogether; this is a typical Hegelian principle at work here.

And the good people of Ghana should see this bill as nothing but a Trojan Horse, SUASA have done enough research on biotechnology which's end product is Genetically Modified Organisms and non of the findings should be kept secret to the good people of Ghana.

Before we share with the public some of the harmful effects the bill have in-store on human life and the environment, let it be clear to all Ghanaians that, GMOs is about your health and the profit some few individual, mostly foreigners will get when you are used as a guinea-pig and laboratory rats.

The association will want Ghanaians to also know that, contrary to the claims made in the bill in paragraph one of the memorandum, examples from countries that have passed this law shows that the bill will exist to protect MONSANTO and not any Ghanaian scientists as claimed in the bill.

It is also important to note that, a bill which's implementation borders on our health have nothing in the bill to regulate the activities of breeders when their actions start killing Ghanaians.

And no one should think this could be an oversight by the drafters of the bill because MONSANTO and their GM partners have never considered the people's health in all the countries they have been to. The association further believes, this bill under discussion was not written by a Ghanaian because; a Ghanaian will be a bit merciful towards his fellow Ghanaians not to feed them with poison.

Section 23 of the bill depict the in-human nature of the bill as it seeks to make the government, Parliament ministry, of Health, ministry of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and any regulatory instittuion in Ghana in-effective to regulate their activities. Below is the section 23 of the Plant Breeders Bill,

'23. A plant breeder right shall be independent of any measure taken

by the Republic to regulate within Ghana the production, certification

and marketing of material of a variety or the importation or exportation

of the material'.
After going through the bill and looking at how MONSANTO and his Plant Breeders deal with countries who have passed this bill into law, SUASA conclude that section 23 of the PBB is the alpha and omega of the bill and that much attention should be given to this section than any part of it.

In other words, MONSANTO who stand to benefit from this human-degradable bill will withdraw it from Parliament if section 23 is removed from it. Because bio-tech companies do not want any form of regulations in all the countries they operate, especially in the USA where they originated.

What is MONSANTO? To those who have no idea, MONSANTO is one of the largest agro-chemical companies based in the united state of America, they are the producers of chemicals like DDT, Roundup, Glyphosate which are used in the production of most GMO foods.

MONSANTO's aim is to control the world's food through seed patenting, they also want to become the soul distributors of food in the world but they hate governmental control.

These characteristics of MOSANTO can clearly be seen in the section 23 of the Plant Breeders Bill ' 23. A plant breeder right shall be independent of any measure taken

by the Republic to regulate within Ghana the production, certification

and marketing of material of a variety or the importation or exportation

of the material'.
MONSANTO also deceive governments, Parliamentarians, regulatory agencies like the EPA, FDB, or the FDA in the SUA, in the USA, the Food and Drug Administration is deceived and controlled by MONSANTO to pass laws which allows GMO companies like MONSANTO to sell their un-tested food on the US market without any governmental regulations.

Dan Glickman, US secretary of Agric from 1995 to 2000 said the following about MONSANTO governmental controls and manipulations in the US 'During my time as the secretary, if you are a person who wants Biotech products, GMOs to be tested before they are sent to the market, then you will be tagged as anti-science or anti progress.(the world according to Monsanto)

Glickman further gave reasons why you will not be happy in government if you try to protect the people's safety and health. 'well I think there were a lot of folks in Agric-business and in government who did not want as much analysis as probably we should have had because, they had made a huge investments'. 'when I was in charge of the department, I had a lot of pressure on me not to push the issues too far, but I will say when I open my mouth, I got slapped little bit not only by those in the (GMO) industry but also people in the administration'.

The above confessions was made by a man from a country where institutions ( work), and this is not all Ghana can learn from in order to throw this Trojan Horse and the Bio-safety Act out of Parliament

James Maryanski PhD. Biotechnology coordinator at the FDA in the US, from 1985-2006 is warning Ghanaians not to pass this bill because, he was in charge of Biotech to make sure the US citizens are protected but this is what he said of MONSANTO's manipulations, 'The reason why GM crops are here is based on deception'.

SUASA can go on to give evidence from former pro-GMO engineers; warning countries that have not passed these bills into law to stop.

From MONSANTO's website, there is a nice deception which one can see throughout the Plant Breeders Bill. For example, 'our products provide consistent and significant economic benefits to both large- and smaller holder growers. In many cases, farmers are able to grow higher-quality and better yielding crops with fewer inputs and less labour'.

The above is almost the theme for the Plant Breeders Bill, the Plant Breeders Bill creates the impression that, land for farming is now scares and the magic to this land problem is Biotech seeds and crop. But SUASA is saying, Ghana have more than necessary lands for farming the organic way, Ghanaians will never go hungry.

SUASA further argue that, should Ghana experience land scarcity, we should not go for GM crops and that government through Parliament must pass laws to barn the existing GM seeds and MONSANTO chemicals in the country to save our environment.

In February this year, myjoyonline.com published a story on the EU threatening to ban foods from Ghana because it contains poisonous chemicals. The question SUASA is asking is, where do you think those chemicals come from? And are the MPs saying or thinking with the plant breeders bill, the chemicals in the land are going to be reduced?

If our MPs and the government don't know, the EU who support our budget and the biggest market for Ghanaian goods have ban GMO base product and all MONSANTO herbicides and agrochemicals which changes food from its natural state.

In Germany: There is a ban on the cultivation or sale of GMO maize.

In Ireland: All GM crops were banned for cultivation in 2009, and there is a voluntary labeling system for foods containing GM foods to be identified as such.

In Austria, Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria and Luxembourg: There are bans on the cultivation and sale of GMOs.

In Madeira: This small autonomous Portugese island requested a country-wide ban on genetically modified crops last year and was permitted to do so by the EU.

In Switzerland: The country banned all GM crops, animals, and plants on its fields and farms in a public referendum in 2005, but the initial ban was for only five years. The ban has since been extended through 2013.

The French Parliament has given final approval on a GMO cultivation ban in France. The ban applies to currently approved GMO varieties in the EU as well as any that may be approved in the future.

But the government of Ghana and the parliament says we want MONSANTO to use Ghanaians as lab rate.

From the action taken by the European countries, SUASA is therefore asking our MPs and the government the following questions:

Are the MPs and the government telling Ghanaians, Ghana have a better hospitals than those in Europe? Better hospitals which can counter the numerous diseases GMOs production in Ghana will bring?

Have Ghana better or more scientist than the EU countries? We are asking all these questions because, the plant breeders bill, bio-tech, GMOs, and MONSANTO's agro-chemicals is principally the following:

MONSANTO' bio-tech and GMOs is all about life and death because it pollutes the environment, the air, the water bodies and any living organism.

Because, MONSANTO's agro-chemicals have killed uncountable people in the united state of America and other part of the world. In Ghana today, we are eating GMOs through the importation of goods, we are already eating GMO foods like the frozen meats and most of the foods we import from outside.

The Public Health Association of Ghana has warn Ghanaians about the negative effect of GMOs, which was captured in the Thursday May, 8th edition of the Daily Graphic (Page 45) they stated that, 'there is some correlation between organ disease, increasing in GMO in food supply and glyphosate herbal application with the possibility of endocrine disruptions; the GPHA noted'.

Organ diseases mentioned include thyroid cancer, liver and intera hepatic bile duct cancer, hypertension, acute kidney disease, and many more. They further stated, 'GMOs, it said, had the tendency to provoke allergic reactions, as new pesticides residue effects in the alimentary system might affect gut bacterial, provoking peripheral immune and allergic reactions'.

Dr. Amofa indicated that 'there is the need to enhance local capacity to research the introduction and the use of GMOs to put in place appropriate regulatory mechanisms, including particularly the labeling of GMO products and post-marketing surveillance for possible negative health consequences in the long term'.

The GPHA is suggesting of gradual introduction of GMOs into the country that is if government will put in place regulatory measures to protects the people's health which sound good but, SUASA is saying, Ghanaians should do all we can to stop this bill from becoming a law.

Among the things, the public health association mentioned was a chemical called glyphosate and this chemical is one of the chemicals you cannot grow GMO crop without and from the home of GM product, which is the United State of America, a recent research conducted by sustainable plus, has shown the presence of glyphosate in the breast milk of the American women and their urine.

'In the first ever testing on glyphosate herbicide in the breast milk of American women, Moms across America and Sustainable Plus have found 'high' levels in 3 out of the 10 samples tested. The shocking results point to glyphosate levels building up in women's bodies over a period of time, which has until now been refuted by both global regulatory authorities and the biotech industry.

We further ask Ghanaians to demonstrate to prevent this from happening because, reading through the plant breeders bill, one cannot see any sign of protection for the Ghanaian. Because, in the US, where majority of the people know more about their rights, any laws passed on agriculture, only benefit MONSANTO and the bio-tech industry.

In fact, the latest law passed in the US on GMOs prevent the federal courts from punishing MONSANTO and GMO industry should new research says the Americans are dying from eating GMOs. The news headline is about the latest MONSANTO protection bill in the USA.

Monsanto Protection Act Signed By Obama, GMO Bill 'Written By Monsanto' Signed Into Law

The Monsanto Protection Act, essentially both written by and benefiting Monsanto Corporation, has been signed into law by United States President Barack Obama. The infamous Monsanto Corporation will benefit greatly and directly from the bill, as it essentially gives companies that deal with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically engineered (GE) seeds immunity to the federal courts, among other things.

The bill states that, even if a future research shows that GMOs or GE seeds cause significant health problems, cancer, etc, anything, that the federal courts no longer have any power to stop their spread, use, or sales. Source: www.naturalnews.com. Strangely enough, the report goes on to state that, many members of Congress were apparently unaware that the 'Monsanto Protection Act' was a part of the pending bill that they were voting on.

Statistics in India indicates that, MONSANTO controls almost all the cotton seeds in the country thereby forcing poor farmers to buy it's seeds at four times the price higher than organic seeds. This lead farmers to money lenders who charge higher interest rates which eventually leads to farmers committing suicide when they cannot pay the money they borrowed.

According to Indian Agronomists, Kiran Sakhari and Abdul Gayum, 'since BT cotton was introduced in 2005 by MONSANTO, the number of suicides in the cotton farming communities in 2006 alone was 600 suicides, thus from June 2005 to June 2006 600 suicides.

SUASA, coming from a typical farming community have enough evidence to say that, what is happing to the Indian farmers is exactly what the Plant Breeders Bill seeks to do to the Ghanaian farmers.

Already, the cocoa farmers in the western region are borrowing from money lenders with higher interest during off seasons.

The Plant Breeders Bill and legal suit against farmers

SUASA will also want the people of Ghana to know another dimension of the frustrations MONSANTO will bring onto the Ghanaian farmers with the Plant Breeders bill.

The breeders, when given the right to change the DNAs of our natural foods, will begin to frustrate both organic farmers and even GMO farmers in order to make farming un-attractive which will eventually make MONSANTO the soul farmer in the country within some few years when this bill becomes law.

In the USA, the origin of Bio-tech and GMOs, large scale farmers have had to abandon their farming investments due to un-desirable legal-suit. Farmers in the state have lost their life time investment to MONSANTO for a so called non- payment of royalty.

Troy Roush an Indiana farmer; tells how sad it has become to be a farmer in the USA, 'Monsanto have private investigators who comes to my farm and interview me; later, Monsanto sued me, my dad and my two brothers and after years of stress, the family broke down'.

Ladies and gentlemen, US farmers are losing their farms and investments through court suits, how much can the Ghanaian farmers stand them? In Ghana, even the few rich fear to go to court because of bureaucracy.

Let's ask ourselves how many times can a farmer from his village in the hinter lands can go to Accra, Tarkoradi, Kumasi or tamale to answer question from MONSANTO by the court?.

At this point we want to make this clear to our president His Excellency president John Dramani Mahama and the parliamentarians that, they are at the verge of winning independence for Ghana, an achievement just like what Dr. Kwame Nkrumah won for us.

On the other hand the president and the MPs can choose to be calledsell-outs, thus the administration which passed a bill that sold the people of Ghana to MONSANTO.

The plant Breeders Bill is all about GMOs and no one should be deceived; it is coming for the Ghanaian scientist. The truth is, we are already growing and eating GMOs here; if you ask why, ask yourself when did we as Ghanaians and Africans started experiencing the cancers and all the dangerous diseases?.

It is written in all the books in the US and Europe that, Africa started getting these cancers only when we were introduced to GMO based foods. GMOs and bio-tech foods are human and bio degradable, and all well meaning Ghanaians should rise and fight it just like our forefathers did to slavery. In fact, bio-tech and GMO is the last stage of slavery.

The venn-diagram below shows how various governments from both the democrats and the republicans appoint former MONSANTO sympathizers in key areas of regulations like the EPA, FDA, USDA and the like.

This act of conflict of interest always makes the US government weak in protecting the citizen's interest and SUASA wants Ghanaians to know that, once again the plant breeders bill was and can never be written by a Ghanaian should the bill be written by a Ghanaian, that person must be a MONSANTO representative to Ghana.

In conclusion, SUASA not only represent education, and should education be our restricted goal, we, saying, if education does not support human survival and safety, it is useless. Therefore we also represent a farming community and we are blessed with MPs from one of the farming communities in Ghana and we are asking of their position on the plant breeders bill and that their voice on the matter will do help their constituents a lot of good thereby helping them to take a good decision for themselves and the nation as a whole.

All Credit for this Venn diagram goes to Geke.us
While there are numerous points of overlap between Monsanto and the United States Government under the Obama administration, the three most important connections are that of Michael Taylor, Roger, Beachy, and Islam Siddiquiall three of these Monsanto affiliates were appointed to high level positions within the government by the Obama administration.

The Obama administration appointed Michael Taylor, the previous vice president of Monsanto and a current Monsanto lobbyist, to a high level advisory role at the Food and Drug Administration [FDA]. It is virtually inarguable that this appointment constitutes a massive boon for Monsanto and an undeniable conflict of interest for Taylor.

Given the fact that Taylor is a lobbyist for Monsanto and is being paid by the agro-giant, it is reasonable to assume that his advice to the FDA is focused upon helping his employer reduce its regulatory burden and improve its profitability. It isn't a secret who Taylor worked for and we can assume that the Obama administration knew who they were appointing when they did it.

Source: http://www.globalresearch.ca/monsanto-controls-both-the-white-house-and-the-us-congress/5336422.

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SUASA Calls on Western Regional Mps to Declare Their Position on the Plant Breeders Bill and the Bio-safety Act