GM crops can pose hidden dangers
Sir,
Please allow me a space in your paper to issue my concerns about Genetically Modified (GM) crops.
Genetically modified crops have been causing chaos around the world. The problem with these crops is that they are designed to get the farmers into a buying trend that traps them into buying from the company that makes them only, so do not believe that they are here to help you as a farmer - they are here to empty your pocket and poison the people.
The chemicals they treat these crops with develop resistant strains of bugs and weeds that can only be destroyed with super-strong chemicals that poison the earth even further.
These bugs and weeds then also destroy non-GM crops as they are totally resistant to any normal-strength pesticides.
The health of consumers may then be affected by the super-strong chemicals needed, as the residues from them find their way to our dining room tables and into our bodies. These chemicals can cause serious illnesses to occur in our bodies and have in some cases even been linked to genetic defects in newborn babies.
Banned
Against this, the foods produced by GM crops are not as nutritious as a normal non-GM or organically produced plant.
There is a very good reason why some European countries and other countries around the world have banned, and are in the process of banning, GM crops.
There is a large movement worldwide against them as their products may cause birth defects in the farm workers who use their chemicals. The fact that large areas of previously productive land are now covered by super-weeds that are resistant to herbicides is of no concern to the makers of these seeds.
Swaziland, as a country, should be looking at all the angles here. We should do some serious investigation into the viability of GM crops and their affects on the environment and people before we welcome them into our fields with open arms.
The rhetoric from seed makers will praise their creations and promise the world - but there is a lot of evidence out there that needs to be looked at seriously before we allow these ‘Frankenstein’ plants into the country. I strongly urge all the farmers out there to do some reading and educate themselves further than the industry pamphlets.
Sam
Dear Sam,
Thank you for your letter, it has raised some important concerns. If crops engineered to be resistant to pesticides actually breed super-resistant pests, then indeed we would be better off sticking with what we had before.
I agree with you on the taste and nutrition aspect, too – having been to countries that have highly-engineered and highly-processed foods, it is a relief to come back home and eat the tasty natural fruit here.
I think it would be premature to introduce such highly-developed seeds into our country en masse before we have set up the Royal Bio-technology Park and trained scientists who can monitor and understand how they will interact with our current environment.
Besides, there’s nothing wrong with our normal way of farming – it’s just that, as a supposedly agricultural nation, we’re not actually doing much farming. No ‘magical’ technology is going to plant our fields for us.
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