Hi Kirk >The corn offered was Starlink which is not approved for human consumption in >US. There is a glut of it since they can't sell much of it and if humans in >Africa eat it, oh well. Not against our laws. So for "Americans" to pretend >this was an altruistic act it shows what sons of Belial they really are. >Just like the sons of Belial that created it. >Animals that eat it demonstrate impaired immune function. > >http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:EaWGcsULhu0C:ens.lycos.com/ens/aug2001/ >2001L-08-08-03.html+starlink+corn&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 >StarLink corn, a variety genetically engineered to produce its own >pesticide, is not approved for human consumption because it may be a human >food allergen. Last year, the nonprofit Genetically Engineered Food Alert >showed that StarLink had contaminated the human food supply, forcing the >recall of more than 300 food products and costing farmers, food processors >and the grain industry millions of dollars in lost profit. > >If there was any justice the Frankenfood creators would be ordered to pay >the losses. >After all it is their creation and it is loose.
The Zambian, Zimbabwean, Mozambican objections were quite reasonable - even those of Mugabe (Zimbabwe, not Zambia), who is not a reasonable man. "Countries ranging from Zambia and Zimbabwe to Mozambique refused to accept the controversial genetically mutated foods. "Zambia's president, Levy Mwanawasa, expressed health concerns about genetically engineered foods. He was also worried that if genetically engineered corn kernels are distributed to his people, farmers will use some of the altered kernels to grow new corn. If that happens, cross-contamination issues may make it much more difficult for Zambia to export corn to the European Union, which requires labeling of biotech products. "African nations also worry that the corn may be contaminated with StarLink genetically engineered corn, which hasn't been approved for human consumption." But they were bullied into it anyway. Vanishingly little US corn goes to feed people in hungry countries, virtually all of what's exported goes to the rich countries for use as livestock feed - see "US grain exports": http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_food.html Biofuels - Food or Fuel? If anyone's bothered about the apparent contradiction of Mwanawasa being bothered about food exports when his country's in the middle of a famine, please note that the US is the world's biggest-ever food IMPORTER, closely followed by the EU, and much of the imported food comes from poor countries. These exports have often continued through local famines, there's seldom any choice in the matter. That's how "free trade" works - free in the sense that, for instance, poorer countries are forced to remove agricultural subsidies and trade barriers, while the rich countries do no such thing. Holland, for instance, imports vast amounts of cattle feed from Third World countries, the production from prime land totalling about five times the size of Holland. Arguably this land should be growing food for local people, but again there's not much choice. Meanwhile Holland adds to the EU dairy surplus, and uses much of its own land to grow tulips for the flower market. Very sane, rational, humane system, yes. I'm not picking on Holland particularly, it's just a typical case. "We've established modernized farms in Zambia so they can produce larger amounts of food locally (as well as giving them genetically engineered crops so they can grow more food per acre), and clearly you don't feel that's the right thing to do," says Mr Briggs. Ignorant BS. Nor is there ANY evidence that GE crops produce more "food" per acre, generally yields have been the same or lower, costs higher. "If anyone tells you that GM is going to feed the world," Steve Smith, a director of the world's biggest biotechnology company, Novartis, insisted, "tell them that it is not... To feed the world takes political and financial will -- it's not about production and distribution." http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4054683,00.html Rare honesty indeed. Keith >Kirk > >-----Original Message----- >From: Hakan Falk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 5:45 PM >To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com >Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: The BBC has been fooled... > > > >Motie, > >At 10:43 PM 10/3/2002 +0000, you wrote: > >--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hakan Falk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Thank you for helping me to see how others have MIS-perceived our > >intents. US perceptions of cultural differences may have contributed > >to the tension, but perhaps misunderstandings based on cultural > >differences are not all one-sided? > >For sure not and if you deal with experienced educated people it does not >normally happen, in some parts of the world some of them would even >understand the custom of handshaking with the right hand. He would >probably still think that foreigners are a dirty bunch, but he would shake >your hand and try to not think what it have been used for. > > > If the recipients of the food are insulted over receiving 'Pig > >Food', can you also see how the US is insulted when starving people > >refuse to eat the same food we eat? > >No wonder that we have so much wars. > > >If a dinner guest at my home were > >to refuse to eat the same food served to the rest of my family, I > >would have to assume he wasn't very hungry after all. If I heard > >later that he was angry about the fare offered, I seriously doubt if > >I would offer another dinner invitation to him. I would also be less > >than tolerant of any future hunger complaints from him. > >If you offer a nice ham to a true Muslim or a Jew, they are for sure not >going to accept it. > > > This may be perceived as arrogance on my part, but life is made up > >of choices. I would not support any further corn shipments to them. > >They will have to eat corn or starve. > >They do eat and feel humiliated, not much choice. > > > If I were to throw a rope to a drowning man, and he refused to grab > >it because it wasn't made from new Hemp, I wouldn't bother to look > >for another rope for him. > >Well, let us only help educated people, who at least have read about the >funny habits of the Americans. It would be cheaper also, because it is not >so many of them. > > > >Motie > >Hakan ------------------------ Yahoo! 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