The GMO Video Report

Jan, good on you! Here's a subject you might consider blogging about and making a video too:

http://current.com/technology/93257322_gmo-created-foods-may-be-used-as-a-biolog...

Oh! Nice to see You

I wonder what the long term effects of eating GMO food products will be? I have seen first hand what it does to chickens. Ya know four or five wings three or four legs. Those that do second hang at the chicken plant can tell Ya. Some times ya have to look down just to make sure your picken up a chicken. Not some other critter.

Don't slow down.
Oh noes!

Kenyan Farmers Root For Organic

Naftali Mwaura

Africa Science News, 30 May 2011

http://www.africasciencenews.org/asns/index.php?option=com_content&task=view...

A coalition of small-scale farmers in Kenya has reignited the campaign against cultivation of genetically engineered crops while stressing that organic farming offers a sustainable path towards a food secure and ecologically healthy future.

The farmers challenged the government to recognize organic and other agro ecological farming practices in agriculture policies.

Advocates representing farmers, consumers and environmental groups fear that large scale production of genetically engineered crops will trigger health and environmental hazards while undermining Kenya’s food sovereignty.

President Mwai Kibaki signed the Biosafety Act in 2009 to pave way for cultivation of genetically altered crops as a means to attain food security.

Proponents of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) hail them as the solution to food scarcity against a backdrop of rising demand from a burgeoning young population.

Likewise, the proponents insist that genetically engineered crops can withstand vagaries of weather, as well as attacks from pests and diseases.

A federation of green advocates in Kenya however, urges caution and reiterates that Kenya can achieve food security status through organic farming.

Anne Maina, Advocacy Coordinator, African Biodiversity Network, noted that "the developers of GMOs have exerted great pressure to ensure that our recently enacted Biosafety Act of 2009 serves the interests of foreign Agribusiness, rather than farmers and consumers”.

She added that “introduction of patented seeds and related chemicals into our farming systems threatens our agricultural practices, our livelihoods, the environment, and undermines our seed sovereignty”.

Maina underscored the potential of organic and agro ecological farming practices to feed the nation without harming the environment.

“Our ability to feed Africa through agro ecological practices is recognized and supported by UN reports and broad scientific consensus”, said Maina.

She pointed at scientific evidence that show GMOs can cause serious damage to health, environment, food production and livelihoods.

Support for small scale farmers to have access to water and capacity building in organic farming is crucial to charting a new path to food security in the country.
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Bill Gates and Big Ag should not have control over what African farmers choose to grow!

Important mention:

http://current.com/technology/93143862_bt-toxin-found-in-blood-of-pregnant-women...

This wasn't supposed to happen either.