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GMO FOODS:

WHAT’S THE

REAL COST TO

HUMANS AND THE

ENVIRONMENT

By Samuel Phillips, Nairobi Kenya.

here are so many contradictions in the narrative around food security in Africa and

worldwide that I wonder how the storyline still stands - or how the people allow
it to. If we really want a healthy population, we will look after our environment
T- water, soil, air - and safeguard our seed stocks and ensure they are strong and

diverse - including sharing them around the continent (i.e. Africa). Some words ring in my
head every time I think of hybrid seeds - declining virility. That’s a term we heard from those
who have also spoken about the deadly GMO seeds... as have others around the continent.
Declining virility means that the seed has continuing reducing power to produce - so what
does it do to the human body? When we then turn our focus to GMOs which are designed to

work with cancer-causing herbicides that kill soil health - and not only that, contain terminator
genes - I mean, what are we doing? It defies logic that a generation of what is possibly the
most intelligent and highly educated global population would continue to do such dumb

things that are so evidently geared at producing death, rather than producing life. Our hearts
at Msingi Afrika Magazine are heavy over this. But what must we do even as we see this evil
spread its tentacles across the globe, taking with it the health of humans, the environment and
the beautiful biodiversity we have enjoyed for thousands of years? We simply fight.

But our fight cannot only be through street protests that are soon taken over by goons in
government and men of ill will. Our fight against GMOs and the effects of GMOs on our
continent must involve clear knowledge and understanding of the evil of GMOs not just from

the health aspect but also from understanding how local farmers of indigenous seeds are being
tricked to their deaths by the many pseudo-philanthropy organizations and charities in Africa.
We have to understand how GMOs can be engineered and used as a weapon of mass genocide
targeted at a particular group or race of people or their indigenous crops and seeds.

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