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Food colonialism is the biggest threat that cancer death rates in the world.
Africa faces by accepting GMO seeds on
the continent because it fosters Africans to
be dependent on GMO seeds that have the A people can survive debt slavery, but
capacity to cross-pollinate and turn their unfortunately, it’s almost impossible to
organic OPV seed stock into GMOs that have survive food slavery where a nation has lost
an inherent genetic use restriction technology the fertility of its soils and reproductive OPV
or the NOS Terminator gene which causes seeds.
seeds to become sterile.
Just recently, we saw Kenyan youth Food and water are essential human needs,
protesting against high taxes meant to pay the and once people have lost their ability to
IMF because they did not want to be under grow food and their water has been polluted
debt colonialism. What they didn’t realize is by toxic agricultural chemicals used with
that just last year, the Kenyan government these GMO seeds, then those people no
approved GMO seeds in Kenya, posing a longer have something to sustain them.
bigger threat to Kenyans and Africans as a
whole because they put Africans into food
slavery. This is why the most valuable resources
available to human beings are seeds, water,
Kenya currently has the fourth highest death and the soil we grow them in.
rate from cancer in Africa, which is related
to these GMOs and the cancer-causing
chemicals, according to a 2014 Journal of So, if the western companies that own the
Organic Systems research on “Genetically GMO companies deny that nation seeds
Engineered Crops, Glyphosate, and The and its own seeds have been destroyed by
Deterioration of Health in The United GMO cross-pollination, that nation goes
States.” into hunger because it won’t have any seeds
that reproduce in order for it to grow its own
This indicates that GMOs are not just a food.
biological and economic weapon but also
a chemical weapon being used to institute Just to show you the challenge we face, I,
imperialism upon Africans. Rutendo Matinyarare, have been fighting a
legal battle against Innscor Africa, a food
monopoly in Zimbabwe that is illegally
The Reunion Republic has the highest cancer selling GMOs laced with glyphosate in
rate in the world, but their death rate is Zimbabwe, which has the highest cancer
lower than that of Zimbabwe, South Africa, death rate in the world.
Malawi, and Kenya which have the highest
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