@Mburuke

I agree with you!!!

Your explanation is quite informative and comprehensive.

It must break your heart that even after providing such info to a community as enlightened as Wazua's there seems to be too much knee jerk reaction type of dismissal!


For me the question should be what do the experts in the field think.

Nedicine and its development borrows from this technology!


Some arguments here border on the arguments advanced by the sects that advocate for not going to Hospital in order not to annoy God!



@ Mcreggae
Kudos for being objective

I dont think there is anything wrong with clever people doing their thing in the laboratories and coming up with GMOs in so far as plants only are concerned. I dont think GMOs are against God.

For in the garden of Eden, after God created man, he told them, 'I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.' So you see we were supposed and created to be vegetarian. Earlier, God had said 'Let us make man in our image....to rule...... over all the earth....and subdue it.'

As far as Monsanto goes with its genetic work with plants, food for man, is so far beneficial and certainly not contrary to God and His provisions. There is nothing wrong with enhancing food (seed bearing plants as the original diet) production through genetic modification. Man is the epitome of Gods creation and all this simply goes to show how great the creator of this man is. That the created can do all these improvements and adjustments and modifications with what he was given, how much more now the creator?

However, the rubber meets the road when fellow man will be at the mercy of fellow man as far as food (seed bearing plants as the original diet) is concerned. Genetic modification is not being done so that it is given away freely. It will have to be paid for.

Someone is going to demand a lot of compensation for this. Many people are not going to afford it and the good intentions of GMOs might be lost.

The PM appeared on Telly yesterday giving GMO foods a clean bill of health.

In what appeared as an ODM strategy, Mudavadi also vouched for GMO.
For this I salute the two leaders insofar as this matter is concerned.

From now on, we will see lots of softening of hearts towards 'GMO ugali'!!

I love wazua. It provokes thought

Very interesting! A lot of misinformation flying around here!

I'm usually averse to engaging in discourse about genetic engineering because people, as is evident here, tend to base their arguments on unfounded fears! It is human scourge known as Fear of the Unknown!

Mburuke has tried to give a qualified scientific opinion yet people are who are not scientist are quick to bash him! Kudos Mburuke for giving it a try! For the record, I'm neither for or against GMOs. I am however certain that they are a necessity and we will not survive without them in the long run!

Please realise that this debate is not really about the safety/health of the food but rather about corporate survival. Think about it: If we can make plants that do not require fertilisers, pesticides and other additives, the Bayer's, GSKs, Syngentas and BASFs go burst! I can bet that most of the propaganda about GMOs is funded by these conglomerates!

We can throw our toys out of the pram screaming but the fact of the matter is that we have been eating GM foods for a very long time already!