In Zimbabwe, the most food aid-dependent country in the world, officials and self-styled “consumer activists” have begun raiding shops suspected of selling genetically-modified food, The Zimbabwean reported earlier this week.
[The Consumer Council of Zimbabwe] which fights for the rights of consumers last week started to inspect and recommend that shops selling GMO foods should be closed. CCZ said the GMO foods which have flooded Zimbabwe were mostly powered milk, meal-mealie, rice and chicken.
“We have received a lot of reports of people, mainly children, getting sick after consuming the foods which in most cases will be expired,” said Comfort Muchekeza, the CCZ spokesperson. “We have raided and closed several shops and supermarkets in Bulawayo for selling expired GMO foods. We are working with the health ministry to bar GMO foods from entering the country. The health ministry has mounted check-up points at the country’s borders to inspect foodstuffs coming to into the country.”
So, the issue is expired GMO foods. Former CEI Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow and current Reason science correspondent Ron Bailey makes the following observation:
Reading further into the article, one finds the claim that people are getting sick because they are eating foods past their expiration dates. Could THAT be the problem rather than being made from genetically modified crops?
When you witness your fellow citizens going hungry day after day, it shouldn’t take a genius to realize that drastically reducing the already-dwindling food supply is a really, really bad idea. In fact, I believe most Zimbabweans would agree that expired GMO food is still better than no food at all.
(H/T Reason’s Hit & Run)
Obama has appointed Sunstone to be his regulatory Czar. Americans should get used to starving in the dark because his fellow animal rights activists that Mr. Sunstone socializes with advocate reducing the world population to half a billion people and reducing American consumption to just 6% of world consumption. (Our share of the world population.)
There’s also the issue of environmental wackos fighting GMO bananas, which hold the key to saving the imported bananas we eat but also the not-for-export ones grown mainly for consumption in Africa and Asia.
Bananas are an endangered fruit due to the return of Panama disease and Black Sigatoka, two deadly plant plagues to which conventional bananas - all of them - are susceptible. Take away the option of finding a new, plague-resistant GMO banana, and you have millions of starving Africans and Asians, huge unemployment in Latin America, and no bananas in the industrialized world.
Some folks better wake up to the fact GMO plants are not what they seam. Look at the GMO cotton in India. The first year they had great crops, but noy the GMO plants are withering away and Monsanto doesn’t know why. GMO soy beans yeilds are smaller then non GMO seads. Heritage corn in Mexico that’s been grown there for thousands of years is now compromised by pollin from GMO corn. What will happen when, not if, something attacks GMO corn. There is no fall back since heritage corn in compromised. Man only thinks he is smarter then nature.