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Starving Nation Turns Down Bioengineered Corn
The Washington Post has a story about Zimbabwe turning down shipments of genetically engineered corn, even though the country is experiencing a severe drought and starvation. Zimbabwe is afraid some of the corn will end up planted instead of eaten -- and growing patented corn is a no-no, of course! If the corn is planted even once, it may contaminate all future crops grown in those fields or any fields nearby, leading to huge lawsuits - and then the fields are contaminated, exacerbating the food shortage. So, starve or be bankrupted, and Zimbabwe appears to be choosing, "starve". Tons of ethical issues here, which have hardly been touched upon in the U.S. press.
There's no story here. USA is wrong. USA is always wrong. When will all USA citizens die so the world will not have these problems any more?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
I really wish US multinationals would stop pushing GE onto other countries.
If they wanted to be nice they could have given normal corn.
You make the mistake of thinking you can educate the fundamental stupidity out of people. You can't.
In the time it took you to read this message at work, your earnings could have paid for an African family to eat for a month.
Please pass this message on to as many people as possible and let the niggers starve!
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So the G7/8 governments conspire to destroy a native crop in an African country at the behest of Western-world-agri-business-interests.
After all, when they get spectacularly in debt they can sell off their surplus population - "every home should have one!"
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Ok then, Mr. smartypants, since you apparently have this, as you say, "knowledge", why don't you let us in on some of it?
You're response here is totally invalid, you've compared GM corn to automobiles! There's no comparison, a "bad" car won't go and make other cars bad as well.
It's too bad you got modded as flamebait.
It's a point worth considering. And its a low hanging fruit in political discourse, given how oftwen americans are bombarded with "give money to this random charity that spends 90% of your money on administrative fees and sends the other 10% to the dictatorship in power in some random country"
I'm sick of hearing of africas problems. I'm also sick of people criticizing america when it doesn't bail someone out, and then critcizing america again when we _do_ bail someone out.
Fuck off, world.
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Insane racist dictator turns down genetically-engineered corn in starving country because the Europeans won't buy it, and it's the US's fault. I wonder if I'm not the only one who gets tired of everyone blaming all the ills of the world on the US?
"You evil jerks! Give us $25 million more so we can use the corn!" Hello? The US doesn't owe you anything! Get it from your European friends who refuse to import GE corn! We were nice, we gave you free corn - but
I think people have lost sight of what "charity" is - it's voluntary. And if we give you $75 million, please don't come running back and act as though it's your birthright to get $100 million. We didn't screw your country up - European colonialists did.
This is either Europe or Mugabe's fault. It is certainly not the US's.
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Plausible conjecture should not be misrepresented as proof positive.
They killed, raped & MULTILATED all white farmers!
Over 90% of the large farms that allowed that country to be able to EXPORT excess food, were destroyed and taken over by military force.
Worse, the fascist-communists took over all the farms, (coincidentally run by educated white people) and in many cases tortured and killed all farmer family members!
Cutting off genitals was a popular tact by the black attackers. Many press phtos exist.
Naturally, as in The Congo in the 1960s the white flight in other engineering disciplines and industries will kill off this hell hole of a country.
Its a political mess, and like every other communist-fascist country in Africa it has no future unless they start mass sterilization policies.
I hope the people in power suffer as well as their supporters.
I tried to mention this once and was marked as a -1 troll by a black-african sympathizer or a person who does not follow CNN reports. (Thats Why I had to post another time). Why do people not wnat to know the truth regarding the multiple counts of genital mutialtions of whites?
"inner city folks" was a euphomism for "nigger".
Sometimes they also use the word "urban" to indicate "nigger" as in "Troubled urban youth".
War is necrophilia.
OK, so basically you are equating the USA with Iraq. Both are bullies by your own words.
Iraq does not have the right to complain about being attacked because it _WAS_ a bully in the past.
By your logic Panama could launch an attack on the USA any day.
But obviously American have become so selfcentered in their view of the worls, that you don't notice how many people are starting to hate your foreign policy.
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> And another lesson that people could hopefully
> learn someday is that almost ALL famine is
> politically based, despite how much certain
> people want to blame "greedy capitalists who
> hog all the resources of the world".
And yet another lesson people could hopefully learn someday is that those same politics are often shaped by those greedy capitalists so that they can "hog all the resources of the world".
Can anybody here name the number of dictatorial regimes supported or even installed in the name of "stopping communism", or more currently "stopping terrorism"? Many of those regimes also have the nice property of being willing to keep selling America cheap oil.