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Kenyans Speak Out About World Hunger

by: Jill Richardson

Mon May 11, 2009 at 13:00:00 PM PDT

"GMOs Not Sole Answer to Global Hunger" says a Kenyan newspaper headline. I like to read African newspapers when possible because I think those who say they are concerned about feeding Africa should first understand what Africans think about their own situation. Here's a fantastic excerpt from the article:

Producers of genetically modified foods talk a great deal about feeding the world. However, cumulatively, food shortages don't exist in the world. For example, has anybody ever heard the UN World Food Programme complaining about food shortages? It complains about lack of money to buy it. That goes for the hungry. They've got no money.
For Monsanto et al to proclaim from mountains tops about feeding the world, is rubbish. Growing food for sale yes! Creators of the 3-Vitamins maize say their operation is humanitarian.
Presumably, someone somewhere will dish out free seeds to farmers in sub-Sahara Africa. More rubbish.
From an economic point of view, the hungry will remain hungry, with or without genetically modified food. It's up to governments to rid their countries of causes of poverty and to fight monopolies like Monsanto.

Jill Richardson :: Kenyans Speak Out About World Hunger

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Kenyans Speak Out About World Hunger | 1 comments

Thanks for this... (4.00 / 2)

It's one of the things that pisses me off more than anything else, when the "debate" about GMOs in Africa basically revolves around "what's it going to take to convince them to accept the stuff"?

And that little ploy the Bushies pulled a few years ago linking African food aid to accepting GMOs was sickening. "Wanna eat? Then get on your knees for Monsanto..."

It's funny when I hear things like "how do you know what they want? Has anybody asked them?".

Yes, and the people reject that crap constantly. But you don't hear about that here. No, what we read in the papers or hear on the news here is attacks on France and Germany; and insinuations that if it wasn't for the EU, then Africa would be Happy GMO Land.

It's amazing how some of the same people here who don't trust the corporate media as far as they could throw them on other issues, willingly suck up every last drop of gruel they're fed by the same corporate media on this issue...

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks." - Christopher Hitchens

by: JayinPortland @ Tue May 12, 2009 at 00:56:08 AM UTC