Rank: New-farer Joined: 2/5/2010 Posts: 34 Location: Kenya
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Intelligentsia wrote:Esh esh eash..sipendi hii story ya GMOs
GMOs evoke terrible memories of the U.S. giant bio-technology giant MONSANTO and its terminator-gene technology for steriling seeds. We need to reflect very very hard about GMOs...lets stay put with our katumani plse!!
If Monsanto had its way it would have long exposed the whole world to starvation and hunger because of its infamous terminator-gene technology. You see 3rd world farmers in Kericho,Konion, Machakos, Ichigaki, Jinja, Gulu, Sidami,Rumbek, Singinda, Tegucicalpa, in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Argentina,El Salvador, Honduras,etc usually plant maize and then harvest the crop. They use part of this harvest as seeds for planting in the coming season. This agricultural cycle goes on season after season and has been doing so for thousands of years... until Monsanto entered the picture.
Monsanto proposed sterilising the seeds by bio-chemical means such that you can harvest yes, but that seed can never grow again meaning you can't plant it. So it forces you to go back to Monsanto for seeds for planting for the next season - creating a crippling and fatal dependency on the giant whose eyes are firmly on profits. They terminated the gene in the seed responsible for growth, and made it unproductive i.e sterilised it. So even if u try to plant the Monsanto seed it just rots. It is a 'suicide seed'kabisaaa.
Now most 3rd world farmers cannot afford to buy seeds all the time and therefore would have nothing to plant during the next season when their 'wise' MPigs tell them it is time to plant as the rains are falling. So they would starve. Plus their families. And entire countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Billions of folks could be at risk just for Monsanto to make chums...nktest!
How's that about the cold hand of capitalism guided by macabre profit motive?
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