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2004-03-30 Africa: Subsaharan

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Posted by Steve White 2004-03-30 12:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "...a time when the World Food Program is already battling funding shortfalls for its program in the oil-rich southern African country."

Food shortages AND oil rich, all in the same country. Hmm. How d'you spose that happens? Guess it gives the NGOs something to do...

Posted by Hyper 2004-03-30 12:26:42 AM|| 2004-03-30 12:26:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I racked my tiny brain trying to divine just what it is that these dependent African nations will get from the enviro-whackos who hold sway over them. Advice on how to save the trees that they must cut for fuel because they're too dumb and corrupt to have energy supply systems? Advice on how to save the fish and wild food animals that they must eat just to stay alive? Advice on how to rotate crops in areas where only one crop has ever been cultivated? Advice on how to live with their neighbors when all their neighbors want to do is slice them to pieces with machetes?

I could go on, but you get the picture. These anti-genetic modification idiots are just the same people who took DDT away from the Africans just when they had learned to use it to save millions. If the Africans had any smarts at all, they would invite all the envirowhackos to a big parley, then take out their machetes and convert the lot of them to hog feed.

Posted by Rivrdog 2004-03-30 1:25:26 AM|| [http://rivrdog.typepad.com] 2004-03-30 1:25:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 hmmm.. vegan-fed hogs...
or they could skip a step and enjoy some long pig.

Posted by Dishman 2004-03-30 2:15:16 AM|| 2004-03-30 2:15:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Screw it. "You want the corn, here it is. You don't want it, have fun."

Posted by mojo 2004-03-30 10:44:09 AM|| 2004-03-30 10:44:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Riverdog, what do you have against hogs, man? Feeding them vegans????

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-03-30 12:29:27 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-03-30 12:29:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 We can shake our heads and laugh, but it's a big issue. The EU countries have threatened to cut off all agricultural trade with any African country that allows GM food, especially unmilled food, into their lands. The EU folks are afraid that the goods African countries ship to them (whatever they can squeeze through the high tariffs and other barriers) would be contaminated. The trade threat is potent since agriculture is one of the few things an African country without oil, gold or diamonds can offer to make money.

I saw elsewhere that the French are finally considered how to implement GM agriculture in their country, decades after banning it. Apparently they see money to be made so now it's okay. Hypocrites.

Posted by Steve White 2004-03-30 3:15:51 PM|| 2004-03-30 3:15:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I say we take our Maize back from France, it's not exactly native.

Posted by Shipman 2004-03-30 3:38:56 PM|| 2004-03-30 3:38:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 If we take all the free food away the Angolans may be forced to use more of their resources for growing food and less of of their resources for buying weapons to kill each other.

As for the corn, maybe we can package all of it into boxes of 20 ears a piece and send it to individual NK citizens. Does anyone have a North Korean phonebook that is recent - you know current since the last large scale purge?

Posted by Super Hose 2004-03-30 10:00:34 PM|| 2004-03-30 10:00:34 PM|| Front Page Top

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