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World Food Program director stands by 'GM or death' policy by the Genetic Food Alert
(Friday, Sept. 27, 2002 -- CropChoice guest commentary) As African and international outrage grows over the use of food aid as a GM
marketing tool by the US-controlled World Food Programme, the New Scientist
reveals an incredible seven years history of unauthorised GM dumping. The
now exposed Director of the World Food Programme, James Morris, is hitting
back with a ludicrous propaganda campaign for the biotech industry, claiming
that 'Biotech food can save millions of African lives'. Its easy to make
such claims when you have the power to deny people access to non-GM food.
Why is is that such claims about feeding the world with GM crops are made
only by the world's main producers of GM crops and not by the recipients of
food aid? Why is it that the World Food Programme has had to hide the
dumping of GM crops from the recipients of 'aid' for so long ? Why is it
that the World Food Programme has consistently bought unwanted GM crops from
the USA in preference to non-GM surplusses from poor nations near famine
regions?
In 1998 the food and agriculture representatives for Africa jointly stated
that they "strongly object that the image of the poor and hungry from our
countries is being used by giant multinational corporations to push a
technology that is neither safe, environmentally friendly, nor economically
beneficial to us". Four years later these corporations, through the World
Food Programme, are giving Africa their ultimatum: "GM or Death".
1. U.N. is slipping modified food into aid. (New Scientist, 19 Sept 02)
2. Biotech food can save millions of African lives. (James Morris,
International Herald Tribune, 19 Sept 02)
For the full story of America's international campaign to force GM food and
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