Some people talk against genetically modified (GM) products, particularly food, as if it’s a matter of choice between evil and righteousness; the debate is all about free choice. As result, they go to great lengths to scare people about perceived, not scientifically proven, human and animal ill effects.
In Tanzania, the Tanzania Alliance for Biodiversity is one of the entities leading this crusade. We have to admit that biodiversity defines our very lives, and that it must be protected at all costs, but those costs should not include the right to makes claims that have not been scientifically proven beyond reasonable doubt.
African nations cannot afford the cost of this debate, which has the American and European food industries at daggers drawn; these people are well fed, we repeat, and wish to register our conviction that there are starving people where TABIO come from – and who have never heard of organic food, nor can they afford it if it were made available in our markets.
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