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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.
I never made that mistake twice!
first post bitches.
Ignorant retarded dummies.......
Lunix sux too.
So let them fucking starve.
Or maybe we should genetically engineer the starving third-world people so they cannot reproduce.
It would certainly end people there.
DNA just wants to be free...
Those nigs over in Africa are open step below the monkey. If a starving nigger isn't smart enough to eat perfectly good corn, let 'em starve.
-- I is a bad Niggah.
I really wish US multinationals would stop pushing GE onto other countries.
How about if other countries educate their citizens so that they don't they don't get whipped in a frenzy of fear by idiot "scientists" who make their living by scaring ignorant people.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
"Educate their citizens" - Isn't that called propaganda?
Sorry I forgot, us Europeans have governments which are slightly more immune to corporate pressure than other more arrogant nations/governments.
Alex
Just socialism at work. Funny how the US is having a severe drought and still produces a surplus of food.
Americans are the most entertained and least informed population on earth. The "news" industry here is a joke. People were better informed in the former Soviet Union.
They killed,raped & MULTILATED all white farmers !
Over 90% of the large farms taht made that country 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 family members.
Cutting off genitals was a popular tact by the black attackers.
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.
Is it `giving' to hand a university money to put up a `Bill Gates Building' or is it simply a commercial exchange?
Since he's cooking the books to avoid paying income taxes on over $15,000,000,000.00 a year, have you contra'ed those taxes against even those commercial exchanges?
Ignoring all of the above considerations, it has been truly said thay Trey Gates gives less, pro rata, to charity than the average single mother.
WHG3 is greedy, and AFAICT has always been greedy. The above items are just the tip of the iceberg of greed.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
Ah, yes, the inner-city folks. That would be the gold teeth, gold chain wearing, fried chicken and biscuit eating, monkey ape baboon, big thigh, fast running, high jumping, spear chucking, 360 degree basketball-dunking variety of inner-city folks. It must be admitted that Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, has gone completely to hell since 1980 under black authoritarian rule. But does that mean the best thing to do would have been to retain white rule? This is left as an exercise to the reader.
Caring for iraquis sure as shit is not bombing the fuck out them again. In case the you missed the last couple of decades that's how we fight wars now. We bomb the shit out of people for months, we destory electricrical and water facilities, bridges, roads, industrial facilities, factories etc. This makes sure people starve for at least a decade after we are done bombing them. Cool huh? Now that iraq has finallyre built all those destroyed civilian facilites we will bomb them again.
Ask yourself this. What have the iraqis ever done to americans? The answer is nothing!
This next round of slaughter has only one purpose. To get GW re-elected. You can be sure it will be well timed so conside with the 2004 election.
War is necrophilia.
That truth is that Negroes, although a hominid species, are in fact less than human. They are more primitive and animal-like. Negroes are inferior in all attributes which we consider human. Negroes often excel in animal-like attributes like running fast. But at their core, Negroes are not human. They are sub-human.
This is why we need open-source food. We need a RMS of the food industry... Time to start the FFF - Free Food Foundation?
First of all, Mugabe is capable of doing that himself, second of all he also couldn't care less what the US thinks of him. In fact, the worse the "white powers" think of him the more he can play the race card at home to gain support.
he will be labeled as a blundering fool, a ruthless dictator, and as a person who the world can not trust.
He's already know for all these in every country outside Africa and most of those in Africa.
Either way, this is a brilliant move by the US in the chess game between these two countries.
Except it's the pawns that lose while the Kings stay on the board forever.
TWW
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