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2007-01-03 | permalink
Summit participants express varying views on GMOs
Participants at a food summit have expressed varying views on the introduction of Genetically Modified Food (GMO) technology on the continent. Wilson Selenge, a parliamentarian from Malawi, told Newsmen at the just-ended Food Security Summit in Abuja, that his country rejected GMO technology because it transferred foreign genes into local crops. “When you produce maize or any other crop through GMOs you are applying a foreign gene, and that foreign element can be harmful to the body system”, he said. According to him, if you therefore eat such food you will be damaging your body system, which can even lead to death. Dr. Olaseinde Afrigbede, national coordinator, United and Medium Scale Farmers’ Association of Nigeria (USMESFAM), said that farmers in the country were against the used of GMO technology in food production.
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2007-01-03 | permalink
Summit participants express varying views on GMOs
Participants at a food summit have expressed varying views on the introduction of Genetically Modified Food (GMO) technology on the continent. Wilson Selenge, a parliamentarian from Malawi, told Newsmen at the just-ended Food Security Summit in Abuja, that his country rejected GMO technology because it transferred foreign genes into local crops. “When you produce maize or any other crop through GMOs you are applying a foreign gene, and that foreign element can be harmful to the body system”, he said. According to him, if you therefore eat such food you will be damaging your body system, which can even lead to death. Dr. Olaseinde Afrigbede, national coordinator, United and Medium Scale Farmers’ Association of Nigeria (USMESFAM), said that farmers in the country were against the used of GMO technology in food production.
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