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Merrick
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Re: gm foods
Jul 27, 2004, 12:13
Donor countries - including the US - had plenty of non-GM food spare and could have given that instead. Knowing the Zambian government's opposition to GM, why else did the US donate GM?

The US deliberately gave Zambia GM precisely in order to force GM into Africa, which has been highly reluctant to take it so far.

It was an unbelievably crass and cynical ploy on the part of the US.

As a joint statement from 24 African countires said to the UN Food And Agricultural Organisation, "We strongly object that the image of the poor and hungry from our countries is being used by giant multinational corporations to push a technology that is neither safe, environmentally friendly, nor economically beneficial to us. We do not believe that such companies or gene technologies will help our farmers to produce the food that is needed in the 21st century. On the contrary, we think it will destroy diversity, the local knowledge and the sustainable agricultural systems that our farmers have developed for millennia and that it will thus undermine our capacity to feed ourselves."
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