[lavaroise]

Apparently they want the luxury good, or, rather, they just want to make aid Politicaly correct, using politicaly correctness cleansing of AMericans. This is evil.

[lavaroise]

bump

[dighton]

Right, I've seen that clown's name before.

[Fixit]

"Beggars can't be choosers."

Ummm, it isn't the starving folks that are making this decision, it is their well fed leaders, using starvation as a weapon, who have the luxury of choosiness.

[Bikers4Bush]

F em', if they don't want it fine but DEMANDING something be not GM when they are being given it for free is insane.

Let them starve and kill each other off. Mother nature has her own way of handling the ungrateful.

[exmarine]

It's "wicked" according to what standard - the goddess Mother Earth's? I'm shaking in my boots. These earth worshippers are hilarious.

[theFIRMbss]

>He called for "anger to be harnessed"...

Perhaps this fruit cake
would like to see some "third world
anger" get "harnessed,"

strapped into a plane,
and crashed into a building.
Really, it's this kind

of "establishment"
acceptance of the West as
evil that powers

the total psychos
to their self sacrifices
and mass homicides.

If the press didn't
cover these nuts, nobody
would ever hear them!

[Bob Buchholz]

But the African governments say the effects of GM food on health are unknown.

However the effects of starvation are well known. Let's take the possible evil we don't know over the certain evil we do know. IDIOTS!

[tuna_battle]

You forgot the "barf alert"! Where's that gif of the kid vomiting? I can't find it!

[Paulus Invictus]

Let them eat non-GM cake!

[semaj]

I would like to know on what evidence do they base the claim that genetically modified grain poses harm to anyone who ingests said grain? Any nutritionists/horticulturalists out there?

[wjcsux]

Starvation has been a tool for Africa's elite to rid themselves of "undesirables" for decades.

[Stultis]

The wicked ones are the euro-socialist, enviro-nazi control freaks. THEY are the ones insisting that grain from Africa must be genetically pure so that well-fed, knicker-wadding euro-weenies can indulge their ludicrous, luddite food fetish. No problem, apparently, if a few (million) Africans have to starve for this cause.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Cuba looks to genetic engineering to help save sugar crop ***If successful, Cuba would need much less cane to produce the same amount of sweetener and be able to fetch premium prices - a prospect so promising that Cuba obtained a U.S. patent five years ago on its process of engineering fructose into sugar cane. It's one of about two dozen U.S. patents the Cubans hold, obtained mostly to keep other non-embargoed countries from profiting from their inventions. In the case of fructose sugar cane, Cuba hopes its patent position will give it a commercial edge when it reaches the world market.

Enriquez said he's ready to plant his experiments outdoors - but getting such permission from Cuban regulators is a lengthy process and the fructose sugar cane is years away from supermarket shelves. Enriquez's mission is about more than economics. National pride is at stake. Sugar is still the country's No. 1 export, ahead of nickel and even tobacco, although tourism has replaced sugar as the biggest source of hard currency. The sugar industry employs about 400,000 workers. "This country is very sentimental about sugar," Enriquez said.

Closer to attaining the open field is sugar cane genetically modified to make it more pest resistant. About a dozen of these plants are growing in a greenhouse behind the Havana biotech center, promising to reduce growing expenses by requiring less pesticide. Others at the center are tinkering with sugar cane's genome to make it more resistant to weed killers and disease. Labrada also talks about using sugar cane to fuel electric generators, as a source of ethanol and even as a source for cancer-fighting drugs. But even if the Cuban scientists succeed with their biotechnology projects - Enriquez for one says he's close - they have other hurdles to clear. The European Union, the biggest market currently open to Cuba, has temporarily banned all new imports of genetically modified foods in the face of consumer resistance.***

[piasa]

US policy on aid is 'wicked' - Meacher By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor 01 December 2002 Forcing starving countries to accept genetically modified (GM) food in aid is "wicked", Michael Meacher, the environment minister, said late last week. He called for "anger to be harnessed" against the policy, which is being vigorously pushed by the United States government.

We could just do like most of the world and not give them anything to accept.

Where do people get the idea we OWE them food of any kind, much less OWE it to people to take what they want and not what we want to give?

If they don't want GM foods, they don't HAVE to take it.

If I was in danger of facing starvation I'd eat genetically modified bugs and cattail shoots if I had to. I sure wouldn't complain if someone offered me corn!