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Food Health

incur huge debts in order to farm
and get reduced yields and prices,
creating terrible socio-economic
impacts on farming communities
across Afrika. Why this is so when
there are natural ways in which to
conduct our farming practice that
diminish all these risks and im-
pacts is something each farmer and
individual is going to have to quickly
and urgently understand and resolve
for themselves at a personal level.

I hope and pray that the choices
they make are for the benefit of the
future of the continent of Afrika
and her children, because we are at
a major crossroads where we can
no longer remain neutral or passive
concerning the impacts of these
Diseases for which a link has been suspected or taken into account by INSERM global frauds on our lives, liveli-
(French National Institute of Health and Medical Research). Source: BASIC hoods and wellbeing. It really is that
serious.

where they have been forced to go
back to basics, back to simpler ways
and processes that are decidedly
less toxic and less harmful to their
consumers than what they were
using before. If only the entire
continent of Afrika would reverse
the trend that has been mentioned
in the report by BASIC and go back
to the use of simple, natural inputs
to raise crops and farm animals, we
would be in a much better place as a
people.

Considering the various levels of
global interference and control in
the farming sector, worldwide, the
continued insistence of the use
of toxic farm inputs – including
hybrid/GMO seeds and seedlings
– has created pressure on govern-
ments to enact legislature that is
demeaning and dehumanizing to
its citizens. Not to mention bring-
ing defilement and contamination
to their bodies and environment
through their repeated use. The fi-
nancial cost of inputs has put many
farmers who are keen to continue Impact from pesticides.
their use in situations where they Source: BASIC

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