Summits up' for GM pushers in Africa
TT | 31.08.2002 18:44 | Bio-technology | Globalisation | World
The GM debate at The World Summit on Sustainable Development is hotting up and Africans are pretty pissed off...
The GM debate at The World Summit on Sustainable Development is hotting up and African countries are pretty pissed off at being used as a dumping ground for the unwanted genetically modified food stuffs of the US. Joint statements have been made rejecting the so-called 'aid' which is widely recognised as an attempt to force African nations to accept biotechnology against their will.
Attached are various statements and press releases from African organisations...
(Note - Monsanto has ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY delegates at the summit - which is more than the number of people the UK government has sent)
- African civil society statement on gm food aid
- Statement by the Small Holder Farmers and Fish Harvesters
- Solidarity statement from 39 nations
- Why Africa SHOULD Reject GE Contaminated Food Aid -
- The Johannesburg declaration on biopiracy biodiversity and community rights
- Biotechnology and GMO commission at the Global Forum at NASREC
- Force feeding the world - GFA
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the rich world fucks over the poor
31.08.2002 23:15
dh
Funny That!
31.08.2002 23:59
Sadly, Africa is more fucked now than it was a hundred years ago when the land grab began. The famine and AIDS is a DELIBERATE act of genocide of an entire race, hated by the West, because they have all the real wealth, land, gold, oil, diamonds and natural resources. If left to their own devices, Africans would be richer than the all the World Bankers combined.
This Summit is a fraud and yet another opportunity to buy more time, by setting goals, suppossed to take effect in another ten years. But of course, that will be too late for millions, who must accept the World Bank's conditions and Monsanto's GMO's or die!
Because....
Sustainable bankers
01.09.2002 21:52
hh