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apelike:
when your family started giving birth to giant heads and small weist. You will remember this your statement

How? I learned that due process has been done by the institution concern.

This is not good news. Our so called scientist don't do proper research. They just copy and paste. Detailed research has shown that GMO are poisonous to health. They are cancerous and any field you plant any GMO plant can't be reused after harvest.

chakula:


How? I learned that due process has been done by the institution concern.

believe those people at your risk.

Most cancer cases are associated with GMO

Na only oyinbo rubbish we sabi copy.

Shut up. In most African countries foods are 99%organic except the imported ones.

dominusgai:

Hmm, there is not one food you are eating that has not been genetically modified from its original make. Not rice, oil, maize, potato. Nothing.

for over two years now, Bill gates company has been lobbying audu ogbe and the FG to approve GMO foods

they finally perfected it

Nigerians are in deep trouble.

GMO foods are harmful to human health oooooooooo

Buhari is a devil

Dump this rubbish. This is a horrible idea.

These GMO foods are one of the main reasons a good portion of people living in the west are overweight and sick. Na by force to copy everything the oyibo dey do? We are not white, but if you want to copy something from them atleast copy the productive things they do.

This type of cowpea takes longer to cook.

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You mean sniper-fied

Omudia11:
Shut up. In most African countries foods are 99%organic except the imported ones.

Hmm, this shows your stupidity is abysmal. The strain of the cabbage we use for salad has been modified for better yield. The strain of cassava we currently use have been modified. We now have human size palm tree that produces more oil and that most of the new plantations are using. Guess how they got that strain, through modifications. Plantains and bananas are all modified. Nigeria is currently using the agric strain of fruits for farming. And all agric version, I mean all agric version of seeds used for farming have been genetically modified for better yield and stronger disease resistance. And all Nigerian farmers will always use the agric strain so as to get more yield.

Make una read new things with una fone una no gree. Na only wetin una archaic lecturer teach una for school nai una read last.

wittydee:
This is not good news. Our so called scientist don't do proper research. They just copy and paste. Detailed research has shown that GMO are poisonous to health. They are cancerous and any field you plant any GMO plant can't be reused after harvest.

What research institute did this. Can you tell me so I read on it?

Not a good move, this is like putting your hand in the mouth of a lion for food, once agriculture becomes dependent on gmo the whiteman will soon decide to give you seeds with conditions, we all know we can't produce those seeds. Once you depend on someone for seeds you'll automatically be their slave.

This is the beginning of the end of Nigerian agriculture and health.

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The Seeds Of Suicide: How Monsanto Destroys Farming
By Dr. Vandana Shiva
Global Research, October 21, 2018
Asian Age and Global Research 5 April 2013
Region: Asia
Theme: Biotechnology and GMO

This article was originally published in April 2013

In recent developments, Monsanto and Bayer have merged into a powerful cartel which controls not only what we eat but also politicians, scientists and journalists.

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Monsanto’s talk of ‘technology’ tries to hide its real objectives of control over seed where genetic engineering is a means to control seed,

“Monsanto is an agricultural company.

We apply innovation and technology to help farmers around the world produce more while conserving more.”

“Producing more, Conserving more, Improving farmers lives.”

These are the promises Monsanto India’s website makes, alongside pictures of smiling, prosperous farmers from the state of Maharashtra. This is a desperate attempt by Monsanto and its PR machinery to delink the epidemic of farmers’ suicides in India from the company’s growing control over cotton seed supply — 95 per cent of India’s cotton seed is now controlled by Monsanto.

Control over seed is the first link in the food chain because seed is the source of life. When a corporation controls seed, it controls life, especially the life of farmers.

Monsanto’s concentrated control over the seed sector in India as well as across the world is very worrying. This is what connects farmers’ suicides in India to Monsanto vs Percy Schmeiser in Canada, to Monsanto vs Bowman in the US, and to farmers in Brazil suing Monsanto for $2.2 billion for unfair collection of royalty.

Through patents on seed, Monsanto has become the “Life Lord” of our planet, collecting rents for life’s renewal from farmers, the original breeders.

Patents on seed are illegitimate because putting a toxic gene into a plant cell is not “creating” or “inventing” a plant. These are seeds of deception — the deception that Monsanto is the creator of seeds and life; the deception that while Monsanto sues farmers and traps them in debt, it pretends to be working for farmers’ welfare, and the deception that GMOs feed the world. GMOs are failing to control pests and weeds, and have instead led to the emergence of superpests and superweeds.

The entry of Monsanto in the Indian seed sector was made possible with a 1988 Seed Policy imposed by the World Bank, requiring the Government of India to deregulate the seed sector. Five things changed with Monsanto’s entry: First, Indian companies were locked into joint-ventures and licensing arrangements, and concentration over the seed sector increased. Second, seed which had been the farmers’ common resource became the “intellectual property” of Monsanto, for which it started collecting royalties, thus raising the costs of seed. Third, open pollinated cotton seeds were displaced by hybrids, including GMO hybrids. A renewable resource became a non-renewable, patented commodity. Fourth, cotton which had earlier been grown as a mixture with food crops now had to be grown as a monoculture, with higher vulnerability to pests, disease, drought and crop failure. Fifth, Monsanto started to subvert India’s regulatory processes and, in fact, started to use public resources to push its non-renewable hybrids and GMOs through so-called public-private partnerships (PPP).

In 1995, Monsanto introduced its Bt technology in India through a joint-venture with the Indian company Mahyco. In 1997-98, Monsanto started open field trials of its GMO Bt cotton illegally and announced that it would be selling the seeds commercially the following year. India has rules for regulating GMOs since 1989, under the Environment Protection Act. It is mandatory to get approval from the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee under the ministry of environment for GMO trials. The Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology sued Monsanto in the Supreme Court of India and Monsanto could not start the commercial sales of its Bt cotton seeds until 2002.
And, after the damning report of India’s parliamentary committee on Bt crops in August 2012, the panel of technical experts appointed by the Supreme Court recommended a 10-year moratorium on field trials of all GM food and termination of all ongoing trials of transgenic crops.

But it had changed Indian agriculture already.

Monsanto’s seed monopolies, the destruction of alternatives, the collection of superprofits in the form of royalties, and the increasing vulnerability of monocultures has created a context for debt, suicides and agrarian distress which is driving the farmers’ suicide epidemic in India. This systemic control has been intensified with Bt cotton. That is why most suicides are in the cotton belt.

An internal advisory by the agricultural ministry of India in January 2012 had this to say to the cotton-growing states in India — “Cotton farmers are in a deep crisis since shifting to Bt cotton. The spate of farmer suicides in 2011-12 has been particularly severe among Bt cotton farmers.”

The highest acreage of Bt cotton is in Maharashtra and this is also where the highest farmer suicides are. Suicides increased after Bt cotton was introduced — Monsanto’s royalty extraction, and the high costs of seed and chemicals have created a debt trap. According to Government of India data, nearly 75 per cent rural debt is due to purchase inputs. As Monsanto’s profits grow, farmers’ debt grows. It is in this systemic sense that Monsanto’s seeds are seeds of suicide.

The ultimate seeds of suicide is Monsanto’s patented technology to create sterile seeds. (Called “Terminator technology” by the media, sterile seed technology is a type of Gene Use Restriction Technology, GRUT, in which seed produced by a crop will not grow — crops will not produce viable offspring seeds or will produce viable seeds with specific genes switched off.) The Convention on Biological Diversity has banned its use, otherwise Monsanto would be collecting even higher profits from seed.

Monsanto’s talk of “technology” tries to hide its real objectives of ownership and control over seed where genetic engineering is just a means to control seed and the food system through patents and intellectual property rights.

A Monsanto representative admitted that they were “the patient’s diagnostician, and physician all in one” in writing the patents on life-forms, from micro-organisms to plants, in the TRIPS’ agreement of WTO. Stopping farmers from saving seeds and exercising their seed sovereignty was the main objective. Monsanto is now extending its patents to conventionally bred seed, as in the case of broccoli and capsicum, or the low gluten wheat it had pirated from India which we challenged as a biopiracy case in the European Patent office.

That is why we have started Fibres of Freedom in the heart of Monsanto’s Bt cotton/suicide belt in Vidharba. We have created community seed banks with indigenous seeds and helped farmers go organic. No GMO seeds, no debt, no suicides.

Vandana Shiva is a philosopher, environmental activist, and eco feminist.Shiva, currently based in Delhi, has authored more than 20 books and over 500 papers in leading scientific and technical journals. She was trained as a physicist and received her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1993. She is the founder of Navdanya http://www.navdanya.org/

She is a frequent contributor to Global Research

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-seeds-of-suicide-how-monsanto-destroys-farming/5329947

Excerpt From "The World According To Monsanto" Documentary About Indian Farmers Committing Suicide Over Monsanto Seeds


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn3KeY_vMx8

As a Biotechnologist, this means a lot to me. Way to go.

Cowpea is richly important find out why here https://www.agrobubble.com/blog/cowpea-production/

Look at this mumu. Keep using statistics from Western Nations and thinking you're smart. That my dear only makes you very daft and devoid of an iota of common sense.

dominusgai:

Hmm, this shows your stupidity is abysmal. The strain of the cabbage we use for salad has been modified for better yield. The strain of cassava we currently use have been modified. We now have human size palm tree that produces more oil and that most of the new plantations are using. Guess how they got that strain, through modifications. Plantains and bananas are all modified. Nigeria is currently using the agric strain of fruits for farming. And all agric version, I mean all agric version of seeds used for farming have been genetically modified for better yield and stronger disease resistance. And all Nigerian farmers will always use the agric strain so as to get more yield.

Make una read new things with una fone una no gree. Na only wetin una archaic lecturer teach una for school nai una read last.

deebrownneymar:
You mean sniper-fied

Should I buy you a sniper so you drink and die once and for all after all you are not alive.

Omudia11:
Look at this mumu. Keep using statistics from Western Nations and thinking you're smart. That my dear only makes you very daft and devoid of an iota of common sense.

Is there anything in your life that you use that is not gotten from a western nation. Name one thing you use that is indeginous to Nigeria. Even cassava one of our most staple food was introduced from Portugal. Even the thread used for making the beloved asoke originated from a western nation. So tell me again, you that have common sense, what do you have that did not originate from a western nation?

Omudia11:
Look at this mumu. Keep using statistics from Western Nations and thinking you're smart. That my dear only makes you very daft and devoid of an iota of common sense.

Is there anything in your life that you use that is not gotten from a western nation. Name one thing you use that is indeginous to Nigeria. Even cassava one of our most staple food was introduced from Portugal. Even the thread used for making the beloved asoke originated from a western nation. So tell me again, you that have common sense, what do you have that did not originate from a western natio

This pod-borer resistant cowpea makes sense as it is not a hybrid nor is it patented, so when you plant it you can save planting seeds from the harvest. I just want to know what it is called and where we can buy it from.