How new food crops(GMOs) are being forced down Kenya’s throat

[nosmokes]

A perfect example of how big biotech works. There's no way they can make a sale on the basis of their product to a knowledgeable consumer, the only chance they have is the same tactics used by unscrupulous used car salesmen when dumping Yugo's, only on a much larger scale. And we wonder why folks have a problem with the US. Certainly it doesn't have anything to do with business practices like this that bankrupt and starve people, does it?
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How new food crops are being forced down Kenya’s throat

By JOHN MBARIA

Special Correspondent

An ongoing campaign to persuade Kenyan farmers to grow genetically modified maize, cotton and other crops has the blessings of key public bodies, national research organisations and politicians and is bankrolled by giant biotechnology multinationals from the United States and elsewhere, investigations by The EastAfrican have revealed.

The low-profile campaign has seen millions of dollars from foreign sources being channelled into such national scientific bodies as the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) as well as several not-for profit pro-GM organisations and individual scientists.

Despite the fact that Kenya’s chief outlet for horticulture and other products, the European Union, remains totally opposed to GMOs.

Members of Parliament have not been left out. The EastAfrican has reliably learnt that the entire process of drafting the Biosafety Bill (2005) was bankrolled by the external agencies affiliated to giant biotechnology multinationals who also organised an all-expenses paid trip for several MPs to South Africa early last year.
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complete article here

[RestoreGore]

1. Yes, I agree, and we also wonder why bees are disappearing

Is it going too far to say this is evil?

[nosmokes]

2. Evil is the tip of the iceberg.

They would really like to make Africa over using the Indian sub-continent as a model. I don't have the exact numbers off the top of my head but it's in the thousands, the number of farmers that have committed suicide because of debt at least partially incurred because of outrageous contracts signed w/ biotech corporations like Monsanto subsidiary Mayhco and the practices that mirror what are described in the article and propagated by the World Bank and WTO. It's evil, it's criminal, it borders on genocide. but it's being done in boardrooms and government offices instead of battlefields so it doesn't make for good video so no one is ever gonna hear about from the MSM.