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We have our own food. We say NO to GMO. PBAT please allow farmers to back to their farms, insecurity from onicha-oloba to ubulu-uku.


Let farmers breath
Signed: Concerned farmers from Anioma state.

IamAsiri:
We don't eat drugs everyday. Also, drugs don't have DNA that can be tampered with and altered.

The microbial cell factories used don't have DNA shebi? You don't eat drugs, but you will use them to treat yourself? Please get properly informed about a topic before you go online to give out information you cannot back up with facts.

IamAsiri:
You are even very rude! "So-called" indeed.

Even medical doctors will tell you that most of these drugs we take do have serious side effects, but they weigh the risks between taking and not taking and whichever outweighs the other is what is followed. For you to compare drugs with GMO foods shows how smart you are. And of course, you may be really smart but desperate to convince people in order to sell your products.

Truth is, we cannot 100% run away from genetic engineering and its effects, but it is another kettle of fish if we foolishly decide to embrace it a 100%.

When your friend referred to me as a dullard, you didn't think it was rude, right?

It is shameful that you cannot argue effectively as someone who claims to have scientific knowledge. I probed you and your friend, and you both failed woefully. No single evidence except for conspiracy theories. Go back and read your microbial genetics and molecular biology notes. Knowledge is not hard to find.

GMO Seeds are dead on arival in Africa because the model for Agriculture in Africa is way different from developed world....

The real farmers in Nigeria are uneducated folks in the villages, they hardly use pesticides and modern machines, most are currenly being dusturbed by bokohram and herds men

Is is this local farmer with 12 children from 3 women that bayer wants to tela maize to through NGOs

Even the extension agents that are meant to distribute the seeds want to sell them

If u stay in cities and want to avoid GMOs, eat only what is in season and store produces only during glut..

The prices of food in africa can never support the price of GMO Seeds, is it d local farmer dat will buy maize seed for 40k, people dat have not bought seedco and oba super 6 ,

Christ! God knows how much I want to avoid this dullard and his thread. Anyway, you won't succeed in manipulating ppl. I will still avoid posting research papers because I want someone to feel he knows it all...amd boooom! He becomes a guinea pig and an investment recovery tool. Say... go-bey... we go chop his akara soon.

OK...let's look at examples of genetically modified drugs:

1. Insulin: This is a hormone that helps regulate blood sugar levels. People with diabetes type 1 cannot produce their own insulin, so they need to take it as a medication. Before the development of genetically modified insulin, insulin was extracted from animals. However, this insulin was not always effective and could cause side effects. Today, most insulin is produced using genetically modified bacteria. Do I pray to have diabetics and you this. Nope. This isn't OTC drug...Never. Why use hormonal drugs when you can work on the nutrients you take in.....hormones perfom optimally based on the nutrients we take in. Go research this.

2. Human growth hormone: This hormone is essential for growth and development. Children with growth hormone deficiency can be treated with genetically modified human growth hormones.
Go ask Messi's papa what took him to start dosing short Leo growth hormone. You will understand the reason Leo was loyal to Barca. Lol. Dey play. Na ordinary person dey use them? And Leo's furure is still in God's hand.

3. Erythropoietin (EPO): This hormone stimulates the production of red blood cells. EPO is used to treat anaemia, a condition in which the body does not have enough red blood cells. Does this look like antibiotics you use?

4. Vaccines: Some vaccines are produced using genetically modified organisms. For example, the hepatitis B vaccine is made using genetically modified yeast cells. How many people rejected covid-19 vaccines cos of its nature. Lol. And are the vaccines easily available? We are talking of bio weapon here.

5. Monoclonal antibodies: These are laboratory-made proteins that can target specific cells or molecules. Monoclonal antibodies are used to treat a variety of diseases, including cancer and autoimmune diseases.
Stay away from GMO and inorganic so you dont buy these kinds. OP will definitely return and use the money he is paid to buy these drugs in his 50s. Lol.

If you want to live long....stay away from GMOs. Create a garden, eat only natural produced food. Yes, I know there are fertilizers, pesticides, and bla bla bla ...even vaccines for our livestock. Can you see that many of these vaccines are GMOs? Continue to bombard your birds with vaccines cos you want to tackle Newcastle and Gumboro. OK oooo.

Grow food naturally. Period. Do exercises....

If you have any of these diseases: diabetics, high blood pressure, auto immune related diseases, stroke, and if your organs are still OK...please, try 6 months therapy of organic food. Do not abandon your medications ooo...for example , if you have hbp, keep taking your medications, but get your BP monitor close to you and measure it daily. You will gradually reduce your daily doses, and you will get to a point that you will stop. Your BP monitor will show you. It's easy. But keep taking that medication, and you will use it for the rest of your life. Many users of these medications have died as the result of long-term usage. There are always complications for long-term users.


OP should come tell us regular or OTC medications or even non OTC medications in its simplex form. I thought to myself one day....if the medical field protects modifications made, why are they making it very simple in Agric. Lol... Think! Medicine is theirs already, so they don't need to lure you with anything. But Agric is not theirs, so they need to make it look simple.

Do not be deceived...in my view, the way the medical field doesn't release these things easily is the way agric should be. Period. They will NEVER let you have the simplest medical genetic altered products easily. You will get such from a real expert. Guess what? You will pay heavily. But Agric....they even are trying to make it cheaper than OPV and hybrids. LOL.

Guess what? The day they successfully remove all the seeds from the common man's hand, you will need to be stinking rich to access seeds. And you will pay heavily for using them. Lol. This is the end game. Na "ebi n pa wa" you dey shout now....I pity you all.

Ask OP to come explain the DNA modified drugs further. He doesn't even know it. Guess what...I have forced him to use Google. But at least, let him still use Google and review what they have given him to promote. Lol.


Can I get 100 people who are new to gardening? God knows how passionate I want people to laugh at the Nigerian government. Just 100 people who will produce their greens, meat, and eggs. Just 100. Let me put a smile on JJCs who will bless God for knowing me. Not those people who are already using fertilizers and pesticides for crops, and antibiotics and vaccines for livestock. Yeah. Just 100 people will shame government.

Funny....I cannot get this number. The corporate world has held you all in captivity. What a pity? Can you just imagine...Nigerians are crying because tomato hit N60k for 25kg crates....chicken per kg is N4,500 plus. Lol. They are crying. I was like....wow! They are crying.

Did Obafemi Awolowo attempt to bring in new ideas for staple food during his time? That time OBJ pushed forward Operation Feed the Nation. Can't you see how the old man is still bouncing? OBJ is still running around football pitch at his age. Let's not compare him with Tibubu. Lol. A beg! Get hold of your life....Be determined to live long in good health. Enjoy life. Live well. Eat well. Eat delicious organic products. Eat good good.

Cultivate potatoes, cassava, cocoyam, beetroots....carrots....etc..these are roots and tubers. Eat the tubers and eat the leaves. Yes....eat the leaves. They are so nutritious.

If I should start with cell nutrition and sustainability, I will overrun this thread.

Please be determined to live well. Say NO to GMOs....and start your garden today. Else, you will eat that GMO because hunger is in the land. This is what they have been planning for a long time....and they are already winning.

HeatSeeker:
The microbial cell factories used don't have DNA shebi? You don't eat drugs, but you will use them to treat yourself? Please get properly informed about a topic before you go online to give out information you cannot back up with facts.

Kindly understand the context of the word "eat" used and stop being smart by half! You can substitute it with take.

HeatSeeker:
When your friend referred to me as a dullard, you didn't think it was rude, right?

It is shameful that you cannot argue effectively as someone who claims to have scientific knowledge. I probed you and your friend, and you both failed woefully. No single evidence except for conspiracy theories. Go back and read your microbial genetics and molecular biology notes. Knowledge is not hard to find.

Please, kindly address matters responsibly. What do you mean by probe?

It is quite annoying that you are using two different comments made by two different people to judge one person. I still find it insulting by the way you referred to me as I was not the one who insulted you. Moreover, you said I didn't respond to a comment earlier that I had no answer to give when in fact I had not even opened my account as there was no time to. You do not expect me to sleep and wake up on Nairaland, do you?

I told you that we don't take drugs everyday but you chose to misunderstand it and twist it to your own preferred narrative. Well, good luck to you on that.

As for going back to molecular biology and genetics, you are not the one to advise me on that.

epainos:
Lol! That's the person who understands genetic engineering. Lol.. Do you think you can explain anything to such a person, and can easily assimilate it? This is why I did not even try to give him any research paper or refuse to argue.


How can I explain anything to someone who doesn't know what a research paper is. His proof is the statement of the body that wants to sell the seeds. Lol. And he said that's his proof. And then, compares that with research papers. What can I explain or tell such a brain that will enter very well other than the money he has collected to promote the seeds? I have business with only readers here.... I just want to point it here that he should not confuse people. GMOs aren't good. Period!

Anyone who is smart will quickly know he is naive. Lol. Explaining genetics to this guy .....person go explain tire....lol. Some heads are permanently blocked.

The guy is a very pompous fellow who believes he knows it all. Well, good luck to him and his GMO cronies.

imagine a confirmed dullard calling someone else one. Nothing wey musa no go see for gate .

I won't bother responding to the two conspiracy theorists on this thread. If you are a neutral reader, please know that there is absolutely no proof that GMO's are harmful. I have challenged them to provide verifiable evidence and they hide behind long meaningless posts and insults.

We need to be food secured, and GMO's are the way forward.

You can take that to the bank

HeatSeeker:
imagine a confirmed dullard calling someone else one. Nothing wey musa no go see for gate .

I won't bother responding to the two conspiracy theorists on this thread. If you are a neutral reader, please know that there is absolutely no proof that GMO's are harmful. I have challenged them to provide verifiable evidence and they hide behind long meaningless posts and insults.

We need to be food secured, and GMO's are the way forward.

You can take that to the bank

The way you are promoting this GMO nonsense makes me question your mindset critically.

If you like GMO, please stick to it.

As for me, GMO is a big fat NO!

No amount of convincing will make me change my mind.

Anyone that knows what sicknesses and diseases do to the mental, psychological and financial health of an individual will run away from anything that isn't organic.

ferhyntorlah:
The way you are promoting this GMO nonsense makes me question your mindset critically.

If you like GMO, please stick to it.

As for me, GMO is a big fat NO!

No amount of convincing will make me change my mind.

Anyone that knows what sicknesses and diseases do to the mental, psychological and financial health of an individual will run away from anything that isn't organic.

Do you think I would promote GMO's if there was concrete evidence that they are harmful?

Don't get me wrong on this. I am only against false information that promotes fear of technological advances that will solve our problems. These conspiracies are only going to do us harm. And they need to be nipped at the bud by showing the lack of evidence to support such silly arguments.

By the way, do you know that when you export Nigerian Agricultural produce to Europe and other continents, a large portion of it are rejected? This is simply because they do not meet the required standards. The so called "organic food" people claim are sold in our markets are heavily contaminated with pesticides and all sorts. This is what is causing cancer amongst our people, not GMO wey we never even begin to dey chop.

HeatSeeker:
Do you think I would promote GMO's if there was concrete evidence that they are harmful?

Don't get me wrong on this. I am only against false information that promotes fear of technological advances that will solve our problems. These conspiracies are only going to do us harm. And they need to be nipped at the bud by showing the lack of evidence to support such silly arguments.

By the way, do you know that when you export Nigerian Agricultural produce to Europe and other continents, a large portion of it are rejected? This is simply because they do not meet the required standards. The so called "organic food" people claim are sold in our markets are heavily contaminated with pesticides and all sorts. This is what is causing cancer amongst our people, not GMO wey we never even begin to dey chop.

I still don't approve the use of GMO no matter how convincing the argument is.

I am TEAM NATURAL AND ORGANIC anyday, anytime!

ferhyntorlah:
I still don't approve the use of GMO no matter how convincing the argument is.

I am TEAM NATURAL AND ORGANIC anyday, anytime!

Government don approve am. Next time you take akamu or buy roasted corn on the road side, think of TELA maize

HeatSeeker:


Government don approve am. Next time you take akamu or buy roasted corn on the road side, think of TELA maize

Fortunately, I don't eat corn nor take pap.

HeatSeeker:
imagine a confirmed dullard calling someone else one. Nothing wey musa no go see for gate .

I won't bother responding to the two conspiracy theorists on this thread. If you are a neutral reader, please know that there is absolutely no proof that GMO's are harmful. I have challenged them to provide verifiable evidence and they hide behind long meaningless posts and insults.

We need to be food secured, and GMO's are the way forward.

You can take that to the bank

Pele. You go dey alright last last.

Too bad you couldn't convince one single fellow on this thread. Imagine! I didn't even tell you that I am a microbiologist to argue with you. You were the one who came on strongly trying to prove that I might not know a GMO maize if I see one.
I sincerely don't have your time as I am not trying hard to convince people to buy into the idea of what they loathe.
You can keep shouting for the mods to move your thread to front page. Let me give you an advice though: learn to engage people without being aggressive especially since you are the one trying to convince them. That attitude of yours displayed up there shows that you are not a good marketer which you need to change asap unless of course you don't care.

E pain am sha

So tey e reply my comment two times. Lord!

Next time have facts to back up your claims and don't argue blindly.