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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by thecommunist(m): 7:26pm On Jan 12
Dpharisee:
Na all these Genetically Modified food dey follow cause increase in strange ailments like cancer.
Even many countries don't encourage GM products, we didn't have prevalence of cancers when we ate basic organic foods, it was sickness for rich people who thought that eating cornbeef instead of native chicken was a status symbol.

Nigerian has been consuming food far dangerous than the GM food for over 15 years now.

reasons is that there is no regulation per say, so some " sharp'' farmers have been planting varieties (mainly experimental seeds from china) that yield well but are risk to consumer.

this one is just official announcement that Government is involved now and the one government is involved with will at least be safe to some extent.

the truth is there is no way we wont eat GM food. the option is starvation or food shortage..
Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by ScamDemicEra: 7:27pm On Jan 12
JuanDeDios:

Does Bill Gates produce GM maize?
Is Bill Gates involved in the agric sector or its value chain?
Is Bill Gates into biotechnology/bioengeneering?
If your answer to the above questions is "Yes", do you have proof?
If the answer to the above is "No," what is the relationship between Gates' visit and this announcement?

If only you know the real Bill Gates and not the main stream media Bill Gates, you wouldn't ask these questions.

We are in an era where so called "conspiracy theory" can actually save your life. Nowadays it pays to be suspicious when there's nothing to be suspicious about !

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by Fryx: 7:30pm On Jan 12
Dpharisee:
Na all these Genetically Modified food dey follow cause increase in strange ailments like cancer.
Even many countries don't encourage GM products, we didn't have prevalence of cancers when we ate basic organic foods, it was sickness for rich people who thought that eating cornbeef instead of native chicken was a status symbol.

Corn, Banana, and many more foods - you can’t eat them in their natural form.
Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by wizelink(m): 7:31pm On Jan 12
It may be location specific however, the tela maize is not resistant to army worm and termite. In Enugu, during trial of the maize variety, termite and army warm were the greatest challenge to it's yield.
Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by abdul4me(m): 7:33pm On Jan 12
Paraman:
Show me where you got this from. Such a news will be reported by major news outlets in Russia and around the world.

https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2016-07-01/russia-full-ban-on-food-with-gmos/

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by Yankee101: 7:35pm On Jan 12
Are they ok?
You want cancer to flood the nation?
People are going organic, you’re throwing away organic and embracing GMO?

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by SaLongs1(m): 7:37pm On Jan 12
Dpharisee:
Na all these Genetically Modified food dey follow cause increase in strange ailments like cancer.
Even many countries don't encourage GM products, we didn't have prevalence of cancers when we ate basic organic foods, it was sickness for rich people who thought that eating cornbeef instead of native chicken was a status symbol.
We don't have to remain in the stone age whilst the rest of the world forges ahead because we are afraid of latest innovations. It is false to assume that the people of the olden days did not have cancers and other ailments just because they didn't have modern diagnostic tools and record keeping.
Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by Spinno: 7:39pm On Jan 12
This is Genetically Modified Hybrid....hmmm strange ailments loading

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by OLULAW: 7:40pm On Jan 12
This is very terrible for Nigeria. It's a terrible handwriting on the wall.

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by ModestManager: 7:41pm On Jan 12
A SAD DAY FOR NIGERIA AND THIS GOVERNMENT!



SEE THE RESULT OF BILL GATES VISITING NIGERIA, like just one week after Prez Tinubu's INAUGURATION--ALONGSIDE ALIKO DANGOTE, Remember anybody?? !!!

I knew that the globalists will start bringing/peddling their depopulation agenda on our dear continent.

GM foods KILL....Simple!

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by OblorOblor: 7:41pm On Jan 12
Agbado...promise kept.
Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by descartes400: 7:45pm On Jan 12
Paraman:
Show me your source

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2023/06/30/russia-banned-gmos-years-ago-to-distinguish-itself-from-the-united-states-whats-its-current-stance-toward-genetic-engineering-crispr-and-other-new-breeding-techniques/
Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by PHAYOL81: 7:48pm On Jan 12
Bountiful harvest oncoming！

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by GreenCovering: 7:48pm On Jan 12
Chai!!!
Na so dem wan take package am?
"insect-resistant and drought-tolerant"
But no longer organic!

Worse still, Nigeria with lax systems all over the place, everything will be mixed together in the market place and we may not even have the benefit of making a choice.
Na wa o.
sad

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by Philosophic: 7:49pm On Jan 12
omolola12345:
Whether the crop is GM or not GM. Food label is very important and once the foods are labelled stating the way it's cultivated and other things present in it. It's now people's choice to choose the one they prefer. That's how it's done in abroad.

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by descartes400: 7:55pm On Jan 12
adioolayi:


The world has moved on.... without GMO..there is no food security.

That's the way to meet the food demand of ever growing world's population

That's to say there's no food security in Russia because of their ban on GMO food right ? And they must be starving to death since they are unable to meet their population food demand.

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by JuanDeDios: 7:55pm On Jan 12
ScamDemicEra:


If only you know the real Bill Gates and not the main stream media Bill Gates, you wouldn't ask these questions.

We are in an era where so called "conspiracy theory" can actually save your life. Nowadays it pays to be suspicious when there's nothing to be suspicious about !
So which media do you get your own Bill Gates lowdown from?

For someone who's called ScamDemic, you must be a strong following of CTs. Yes, I agree some conspiracy theories do turn out to have some merit - I can even cite a few. But most are just the figment of the imagination of people who seem to believe that if something is outrageous it must be true.

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by descartes400: 7:58pm On Jan 12
There should be a Law in Nigeria that any food that's GMO-TICALLY processed is properly labelled so..thus giving us a choice...

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by jerryok(m): 7:59pm On Jan 12
That is a country that have a leader not a politician.
Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by Godszilla: 8:02pm On Jan 12
Guys please donot let people confused what a natural farming practice is with GMO.

A hybrid plant is the result of cross-pollinating two different plant varieties and then collecting and growing the seeds that the plants produce. A hybrid plant is the offspring of a cross between two different species or varieties. Hybrids have greater genetic variability than their parents. Hybrid plants tend to be more vigorous than their parents, and often have faster growth, increased yield, and greater size

Genetically modified organism (GMO), organism whose genome has been engineered in the laboratory in order to favour the expression of desired physiological traits or the generation of biological products. In genetic modification, however, recombinant genetic technologies are employed to produce organisms whose genomes have been precisely altered at the molecular level, usually by the inclusion of genes from unrelated species of organisms that code for traits that would not be obtained easily through conventional selective breeding.

DaddyJapan:


Source: https://independent.ng/nigeria-approves-commercial-release-of-gm-maize-varieties

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by Artscollection: 8:03pm On Jan 12
Paraman:
Show me where you got this from. Such a news will be reported by major news outlets in Russia and around the world.

Came on board recently,probably last wk.
Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by Donedeal1(m): 8:08pm On Jan 12
Anything to hold body will do

After all death is inevitable

Gm or organic or whatever

The first is to stop the hunger invasion in the nation

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by MasterTeeUSA: 8:17pm On Jan 12
The sane countries you want to japa to...they all survive on Genetically Modified Foods...Organic are so so expensive



Dpharisee:
Na all these Genetically Modified food dey follow cause increase in strange ailments like cancer.
Even many countries don't encourage GM products, we didn't have prevalence of cancers when we ate basic organic foods, it was sickness for rich people who thought that eating cornbeef instead of native chicken was a status symbol.

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by omojeesu(m): 8:20pm On Jan 12
Another "scientific" nature destroying Wef.BillGatesofHell.Monsato agricgenocide.diseasecreating.depopulationagenda.

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by Tohsynetita1: 8:29pm On Jan 12
MasterTeeUSA:
The sane countries you want to japa to...they all survive on Genetically Modified Foods...Organic are so so expensive



The reason for organic being expensive is because of another option. If GMO isn't introduced, organic will be cheap. No be that organic we they eat before GMO came.

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by adefitim(m): 8:30pm On Jan 12
Seeing the picture of this maize make me remember when I was still lil, we called that kind of Maize Witch Maize

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by keylogger(m): 8:35pm On Jan 12
mrvitalis:

If there is a metrix Africans won't even know of the word not to talk of the meaning

Africa is insignificant in the world game play

There is absolutely nothing they want from here they can't have

When has the Government ever lied to us grin

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by DaddyJapan(m): 8:35pm On Jan 12
descartes400:


That's to say there's no food security in Russia because of their ban on GMO food right ? And they must be starving to death since they are unable to meet their population food demand.


Russia is actually a major exporter of grain (more than 20% of the world's supply), so it has a real incentive to protect its local industry.
It is worth noting that as it has none of the world's leading biotech companies, that decision was partly intended to redirect major headwinds.

All in all, it is good to have a choice. With increased awareness about the impact of climate-change and desertification in Nigeria, food security is not an issue we can afford to tackle with levity.

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by BondRiv: 8:37pm On Jan 12
Dpharisee:
Na all these Genetically Modified food dey follow cause increase in strange ailments like cancer.
Even many countries don't encourage GM products, we didn't have prevalence of cancers when we ate basic organic foods, it was sickness for rich people who thought that eating cornbeef instead of native chicken was a status symbol.

Exactly.

GMOs are bad for human consumption.

You are in serious trouble when the food you eat is a product of experiments by scientists in a lab.

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by BondRiv: 8:38pm On Jan 12
MasterTeeUSA:
The sane countries you want to japa to...they all survive on Genetically Modified Foods...Organic are so so expensive




That's not the point.

GMOs are not good for human consumption.

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by martineverest(m): 8:43pm On Jan 12
Birdbyrde440:


Growing GM or involving in GM activities is considered a terrorist activity in Russia.
false .GMOs are banned in Europe,some Asian countries etc

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Re: Nigeria Approves Commercial Release Of GM Maize Varieties by todugo(m): 8:48pm On Jan 12
Paraman:
almost every crop people around the world are eating are genetically modified.
hope you won't blame the government and Satan when you fall I'll to cancer

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