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Kenya needs to embrace GMOs for food security, better incomes, says Ruto
BY Nicholas Waitathu
Updated Tuesday, July 15th 2014 at 23:13 GMT +3
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| Deputy President William accompanied by Governor Central Bank of Kenya Prof. juguna Ndungu and Nigerian Minister for Agriculture Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina during the official opening of Revolutionizing Finane for Agri- Value chains dubbed (Fin4ag) at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies (KSMS) Rwaraka , Nairobi, Tuesday |
Deputy President William Ruto has said the Government is considering allowing the use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) to boost food production as well as maximise farmers' income.
Use of biotechnology, he said, is one of the concepts the Government is contemplating applying to stimulate high growth in the agriculture sector.
"We have for a long time discussed this model but implemented very little. It is high time we allow GMOs more so as to ensure our country is food-secure as well as reduce poverty among other economic inequalities," he said.
Addressing a conference on agriculture at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies, Ruto accused scientists and researchers of misleading smallholder farmers on adoption of biotechnology.
"Our local researchers and agriculturalists have been distorting information on biotechnology and thus misinforming farmers. The same has resulted in continued use of traditional farming methods, impacting on production and escalation of agonies such as poverty and underdevelopment," he added.
"Our local researchers and agriculturalists have been distorting information on biotechnology and thus misinforming farmers. The same has resulted in continued use of traditional farming methods, impacting on production and escalation of agonies such as poverty and underdevelopment," he added.
The DP said a smallholder farmer is currently producing between 15 and 18 bags of maize in one acre compared to a commercial farmer using new technology who is producing between 80 and 90 bags in a similar parcel of land.
Further, the deputy president said use of modern technology would assist in reduction of food costs, which have been a big nightmare for most farmers.
In 2012, the Government formed a task force to look into matters relating to GM foods and safety. The task force concluded the exercise three months ago and presented the report to the Health Cabinet secretary. The report is due for discussion by the Cabinet any time.
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Ruto prevailed upon agricultural stakeholders to deeply think and discuss the best model of farming to boost farmers' earnings.
Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina, the minister for Agriculture in Nigeria, said African governments spend colossal amounts of money every year to import food to feed the growing populations.
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Hang The Bankers Monsanto to outlaw GMO labeling worldwide through TPP
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It's called the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), and it's a secret trade pact being negotiated completely outside of law, with no congressional authority but with the aim of forcing nations around the world to ban GMO labeling, embrace Monsanto's GMO crops and keep pharmaceutical prices artificially high to enrich the world's medication monopolists.
A purely executive creation of the Office of the United States Trade Representative — i.e. created outside of law with zero public accountability — the TPP involves White House loyalists running around the world, strong-arming over a dozen nations into signing on to a corporate domination agreement knowingly misnamed "free trade."
Details of the TPP are so secret that even members of Congress are not allowed to review them or disclose them. What we know about the TPP has only come from leaks, as the full text of the entire agreement is being kept not only from Congress but also the American people. Yet over 600 corporate CEOs — including CEOs of companies that have been repeatedly found guilty of felony crimes in America — have been allowed to influence the details of the TPP agreements. Monsanto, Wal-Mart and Big Pharma corporations are reportedly given top influence positions in this super-secret Obama organization that hands the future of the world over to the most evil corporations of all time.
GMO labeling to be illegal, generic drugs to be all but shut down
The countries currently involved in the TPP include the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. More are being bullied into signing the agreement with each passing month. Although the exact language of the TPP is a tightly-protected secret, it is reported that the TPP will require:
• Dropping of all bans on GMOs. All countries signing the TPP must allow GMOs to be grown in their country and secretly used throughout the food supply — all GMO labeling will be outlawed.
• Shutting down all generic drug manufacturers who make "copycat" drugs that compete with the monopoly patents of top U.S. drug makers.
• Redefining resistance against GMOs as "anti-free trade practices" that can result in economic sanctions against nations that attempt to ban GMOs.
• The outlawing of "Fair Use" of copyrighted material. Anyone using an image, a short video clip, an audio clip, etc., would be criminalize and possibly arrested and imprisoned under the TPP.
• Flooding the U.S. market with polluted, unsafe food products from nations that have virtually no enforcement of regulations on pesticides and herbicides. As Nationofchange.org reports, "[Corporations] are carefully crafting the TPP to ensure that citizens of the involved countries have no control over food safety, what they will be eating, where it is grown, the conditions under which food is grown and the use of herbicides and pesticides."
• Banning people from using the internet if they engage in Fair Use of copyrighted material. This would shut down virtually the entire alternative media, many blogs, and silence most critics of the global corporate cabal.
• Forcing member nations to criminalize small-scale copyright infringement such as someone sharing a music file with a friend. Domineering copyright enforcement provisions are being influenced by the MPAA which has also been given extraordinary influence over the language of the TPP.
• Vastly reducing banking regulations, allowing criminal banksters to steal even more money globally while facing no repercussions for their actions. "The agreement would also be a boon for Wall Street and its campaign to water down regulations put in place after the 2008 financial crisis," writes Wallach in the NY Times. "Among other things, it would practically forbid bans on risky financial products, including the toxic derivatives that helped cause the crisis in the first place."
Essentially, take every criminal corporation you can imagine, make a list of all their most evil priorities to dominate and enslave humankind, and write them all down. That's the TPP. It is the executive enforcement of a totalitarian wish list of corporate evil to dominate and enslave humankind. (No wonder Obama doesn't want you to be able to read it…)
Maybe this is why the TPP is being referred to as the "Death Star" of our modern economy.
Learn more about the TPP in this video:
Or see more videos about the TPP here:
http://www.exposethetpp.org/TPPMedia2.html
http://www.exposethetpp.org/TPPMedia2.html
Monsanto, GMOs and how the TPP would forbid GMO labeling globally
The best information on the GMO side of all this comes from a site called Nation Of Change. This page describes the implications of the TPP on GMOs and how the TPP would globally ban GMO labeling:
• The labeling of foods containing GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) will not be allowed. Japan currently has labeling laws for GMOs in food. Under the TPP Japan would no longer be able to label GMOs. This situation is the same for New Zealand and Australia. In the US we are just beginning to see some progress towards labeling GMOs. Under the TPP GMO labels for US food would not be allowed.
• In April 2013, Peru placed a 10-year moratorium on GMO foods and plants. This prohibits the import, production and use of GMOs in foods and GMO plants and is aimed at safeguarding Peru's agricultural diversity. The hope is to prevent cross-pollination with non-GMO crops and to ban GMO crops like Bt corn. What will become of Peru's moratorium if the TPP is passed?
Read more at:
http://www.nationofchange.org/trans-pacific-…
http://www.nationofchange.org/trans-pacific-…
Big handout to Big Pharma
Under the terms of the TPP, drug companies could force member nations to keep drug costs artificially high, thereby enriching the profits of Big Pharma. The TPP Timeline reveals that PhRMA, the lobby group representing the top drug companies and vaccine manufacturers, has special influence over the TPP.
As written in the NY Times, "Pharmaceutical companies, which are among those enjoying access to negotiators as 'advisers,' have long lobbied against government efforts to keep the cost of medicines down. Under the [TPP] agreement, these companies could challenge such measures by claiming that they undermined their new rights granted by the deal."
The intellectual property provisions of the TPP are also a big handout to Big Pharma. They allow drug companies to shut down generic drug manufacturers that are currently keeping medication costs low in many member nations. Under the TPP, drug companies like Merck would be able to enforce global monopoly pricing, even across poor nations where the costs of a month's medications would vastly exceed a typically monthly income.
But that's how Big Pharma operates: the goal of the entire industry is to extract as much human wealth from the planet as possible, regardless of the true cost in human suffering or global chemical pollution from pharmaceutical manufacturing.
All this could be forced upon the world without even a debate in Congress. "Mr. Obama wants the agreement to be given fast-track treatment on Capitol Hill," write Wallach and Beachy in the NY Times. "Under this extraordinary and rarely used procedure, he could sign the agreement before Congress voted on it. And Congress's post-facto vote would be under rules limiting debate, banning all amendments and forcing a quick vote."
"The secrecy of the Trans-Pacific Partnership process represents a huge assault on the principles and practice of democratic governance. That is untenable in the age of transparency, especially coming from an administration that is otherwise so quick to trumpet its commitment to open government."
In another op-ed published in the Bangkok Post, Wallach writes "Another leaked portion of the TPP text would take aim at policies to control medicine costs. Pharmaceutical companies are among the firms enjoying privileged access to TPP negotiators as official 'advisers'. They have long lobbied against government efforts to keep the cost of medicines down. Their goal is to keep their already unaffordably high profit margins up. One leaked TPP text reveals terms that would allow pharmaceutical firms to challenge the measures that the US government uses domestically to negotiate lower medicine costs for Medicare, Medicaid and veterans' health programmes."
Learn more at: www.citizen.org/TPP
So secret that even Congress is not allowed to see it
The federal government of the USA has, of course, become a super-secret corporate mafia that answers to no one. So when it came time to create the TPP and force U.S. corporate imperialism upon the nations of the world, Congress was left completely out of the loop. The TPP was dreamed up entirely by the executive branch without a single vote ushering it into existence. It answers to no law and has zero transparency. No representative of the People votes on its provisions. There is no oversight. There is no recourse for the public to challenge its language. The TPP exists utterly outside the boundaries of government and of U.S. law, including the Constitution.
"This is astounding, given that the US Constitution provides Congress exclusive authority over trade policy," writes Wallach in the Bangkok Post.
This idea of total secrecy with zero oversight from Congress or the public is to offensive to the fundamental ideas of democracy that 132 members of Congress signed on to this letter demanding transparency over the language of the TPP. The letter was utterly ignored by the Obama administration, once again proving it is willing to sell out the American people for corporate interests.
"While the agreement could rewrite broad sections of nontrade policies affecting Americans' daily lives, the administration also has rejected demands by outside groups that the nearly complete text be publicly released," write Lori Wallach and Ben Beachy in a NY Times op-ed.
"This covert approach is a major problem because the agreement is more than just a trade deal. Existing and future American laws must be altered to conform with these terms, or trade sanctions can be imposed against American exports," they add.
In another op-ed published in the Bangkok Post, Wallach writes, "A big-business-dominated group of more than 600 official US trade 'advisors' enjoy privileged access to TPP texts and negotiators.
Congressman declares TPP as "assault on democratic government"
After years of attempts by members of Congress to even see the TPP, finally one congressman was able to review only a few select sections of the agreement. That congressman's name is Alan Grayson.
He immediately characterized it as an "assault on democratic government." Watch his video here.
The Obama administration threatened Grayson if he tried to release any of the information he saw by calling the TPP "classified" information. (Yeah, national security and all that.) This is, of course, a runaway abuse of power by the federal government as well as yet another use of the police state secrecy tactics that have already made our government utterly unaccountable to the People. When the government doesn't want the public to see something it's doing, it simply slaps the "classified" label on the project and proceeds to engage in wild, runaway criminality with absolutely no repercussions.
"What I saw was nothing that could possibly justify the secrecy that surrounds it," Grayson said. "It is ironic in a way that the government thinks it's alright to have a record of every single call that an American makes, but not alright for an American citizen to know what sovereign powers the government is negotiating away."
"Having seen what I've seen, I would characterize this as a gross abrogation of American sovereignty," Grayson told HuffPost. "And I would further characterize it as a punch in the face to the middle class of America. I think that's fair to say from what I've seen so far. But I'm not allowed to tell you why!"
Read some of the leaked text from the TPP here:
http://tppinfo.org/resources/leaked-texts-co…
http://tppinfo.org/resources/leaked-texts-co…
Or learn more about the TPP at:
http://www.exposethetpp.org
http://www.exposethetpp.org
Take action
If you wish, you may sign this online petition organized by Public Knowledge
http://www.publicknowledge.org/Tell-White-Ho…
http://www.publicknowledge.org/Tell-White-Ho…
Public Citizen also hosts their own petition on the subject. Check it out here:
http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/comm…
http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/comm…
Keep reading Natural News for more updates on the TPP.
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- Monsanto (My Satan) must be utterly and completely destroyed. This is a life and death struggle, and My Satan must, and will, lose. Diplomacy will not work, negotiation is futile. Only with the death of My Satan will people be free again. Just say no to Monsanto… the most evil corporation on earth.
- If you are proud of your work, then you want to put your name to it.If you are doing something evil, then you need the shield of darkness.
- Dobert ReniroIts real simple, If you have to resort to tactics like this, then you just told the WHOLE WORLD, that GMO's are dangerous. If they were good, then they would be bragging about them on the label just as they did with the term "FAT FREE""The truth will always take care of itself, Lies scramble to be hidden."
- the truthGMOs have to be banned. Labeling will not work, it's too easy to work around. Before they bring in labeling law (which will take years) they will have a work around ie- below a certain % of GMO, no label required. Only boycotts and bans will work.
- Ove Fn DittlevsonWe need to do something about this TODAY together.
The Justice systems are proven corrupted
The politicians (whatever party) supposedly representing People are proven corrupted
The schools are been infiltrated by corrupted 'experts' - Ove Fn DittlevsonThe media? Corrupted
The Banks for People also corrupted
The systems on every level proven default and corrupted.
This is enough. The People must find together and strike back. Only writing about it isn't enough, while they are preparing secretly and underground to another concentration camp-s Holocaust.
Peaceful Demonstrations are not enough and also violated right, if People must apply for that too to the Police State, also corrupted.STOP voting any politician. Colorado Springs did it. Sharingpoint, Idaho did it. Let's do the same and fight the Satan Beast.
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