Friday, October 18, 2013

Anyang’ Nyong’o takes leave from Senate



Good People,


At-least some of us do speculate about those unfinished business of Profesor Anyang Nyongo with the Genetically Modified Foods joining with Calisto Jumas theories at the Havard University who promoted GMO to Siaya now expanding to South Nyanza, Kwale and the rest of Africa is a case of concern........There is one thing I know for sure, that, there is no free land for grabbing under a democratic rule of governance..........but, where the Corporate special interest theorists of GMO who conspire for the illegal occupation of peoples land destroying the dignified and honorable traditional cultural food values to be replaced by invasion of Large track of lands, could later pose a serious risk with later causing problem with the likes of Militia Groups who watch for special interest network and later demand illegal settlement for public land by force over illegal deals that are not censored by the people referendum and which backfired and are gone awry. One such deals is already taking GMO that has been rejected by Global Community of the world and are pushing for damping to Africa. This is not right. It is a serious crime against humanity. Africa also must say NO to the GMO organization feeding the world........It is because, Kenya with the rest of Africa is no exception........and a company cannot replace peoples collective contribution towards a sustained economic wheel for development.
 
 
If King Pharaoh failed in his quest for selfish greed of monopoly to control and feed the world, this too has shown signs of failure………which is why, private sectors cannot replace the position of Government in creating jobs. Since the time of Pharaoh people migrated to peoples Government control. Democracy became the law of gravity that made the wheel of commercial principles to rotate economic progress in a sustainable manner. The Government functionability to create jobs was proved effective beyond reasonable doubt and job creation with innovative progress advancement was able to provided competitive edge of challenges that are healthy and minimized bad effects of monopoly the type of those that failed King Pharaoh and King Herod in the Bible age.

 

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com


 
 
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And The Winner IS...Monsanto?


Published on Jul 8, 2013
The World Food Prize was awarded to three top scientists who played a pivotal role in creating genetically engineered crops, even though most countries refuse to introduce genetically engineered crops into their food supply. The "nobel peace prize" of agriculture is awarded to recognize "the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world". Perhaps this means Monsanto will now label their "award-winning" creations?

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Anyang’ Nyong’o takes leave from Senate

Kisumu Senator Prof Anyang Nyongo. PHOTO/FILE
Kisumu Senator Prof Anyang Nyongo. PHOTO/FILE

In Summary

  • Nyong'o will be away for academic purposes and not for health reasons
  • The Senator said he was leaving for Harvard University in Boston


By DENNIS ODUNGAMore by this Author
Kisumu Senator Prof Anyang’ Nyong’o has moved to ensure there will be no speculation over his absence in the country, as he sought to be away for two months.
This follows speculation over his health when he was Medical Services minister.
Mr Nyong’o took to the floor of the Senate on Tuesday afternoon and said he was seeking permission from the Speaker to be away for academic purposes and not for health reasons.
“I hope this time round, there will be no speculation over my absence as it was the case before,” he told the House.
The Senator said he was leaving for Harvard University in Boston, USA where he would be for the next eight weeks.
“The Kisumu County Senator is leaving the country tonight for Harvard, as a Go Brutland scholar in the school of Public Health for one semester,” the Senator said later, in a press statement to the media.
Early this year, the country woke up to claims that the senator was taken ill and was in ‘bad shape’ in a foreign hospital.
However, in a Facebook post later on, Prof Nyong’o expressed gratitude for Kenyans concern and said that he was out of the country for “personal commitments” in the UK.
 
 
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Profile

Calestous Juma

Professor of the Practice of International Development
Director, Science, Technology, Globalization
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairsle
Calestous Juma is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of theScience, Technology, and Globalization Project. He directs the Agricultural Innovation in Africa Project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and serves as Faculty Chair of Innovation for Economic Development executive program. Juma is a former Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and Founding Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies in Nairobi. He is co-chair of the African Union's High-Level Panel on Science, Technology and Innovation and a jury member of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. He was Chancellor of the University of Guyana and has been elected to several scientific academies including the Royal Society of London, the US National Academy of Sciences, the World Academy of Sciences, the UK Royal Academy of Engineering and the African Academy of Sciences. He has won several international awards for his work on sustainable development. He holds a doctorate in science and technology policy studies and has written widely on science, technology, and environment. Juma serves on the boards ofseveral international bodies andis editor of the International Journal of Technology and Globalisation and theInternational Journal of Biotechnology. His latest book, The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. He is currently working on on books on engineering for development and resistance to new technologies. Follow @Calestous on Twitter
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Genetically Modified Food Giant Monsanto Gives Up In Europe
Wolf RichterTestosterone Pit
June 2, 2013
The “March Against Monsanto” in 52 countries, an unapproved strain of its genetically modified wheat growing profusely in Oregon, cancelled wheat export orders … it’s been a rough week for Monsanto.
But now it threw in the towel in Europe, where its genetically modified seeds have faced stiff resistance at every twist and turn.
Even its deep corporate pockets and mastery of lobbying have failed: “It’s counterproductive to fight against windmills,” its spokesman told the Tageszeitung.
The propitious week started last Saturday with the “March Against Monsanto,” when people in over 400 cities in 52 countries protested against the company, its influence over governments, and its GMO seeds.
‘No Monsanto!’: World marches against GMO food

Oct. 12, 2013
Activists carry signs during a protest against chemical giant Monsanto in Durban on October 12, 2013. (AFP Photo / Rajesh Jantilal)
Activists carry signs during a protest against chemical giant Monsanto in Durban on October 12, 2013. (AFP Photo / Rajesh Jantilal)
Thousands took to streets across the world’s cities on Saturday to protest the use of GMO products, with Giant Monsanto being the main target. Over 50 countries have been taking part in the march for world food day, and across 47 different US states.
Berlin, Strasbourg, Chicago, London, Sydney and Mumbai are just a few of the 500 cities worldwide involved in the rallies, with each one drawing hundreds.
The demonstrators have been calling for the permanent boycott of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and “other harmful agro-chemicals,” according to March Against Monsanto’s official webpage. Protesters wielded large banners denouncing GMO products, and donned fancy dress: In Washington DC a group dressed as bees to highlight the impact of insecticides on bee populations.
Anti-GMO (genetically modified foods) protestors put a chain at the site entrance of US seed company Monsanto on October 12, 2013 during a day of action against the company, in Monbequi, southern France. Banner (R) reads:
Anti-GMO (genetically modified foods) protestors put a chain at the site entrance of US seed company Monsanto on October 12, 2013 during a day of action against the company, in Monbequi, southern France. Banner (R) reads: “No to a world according to Monsanto”. (AFP Photo / Pascal Pavani)
The rallies come four days ahead of World Food Day on Oct. 16 and are a direct attack on what the organizers term Monsanto’s “predatory business,” genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and other harmful pesticides, which threaten “health, fertility and longevity.”
In Berlin, people expressed displeasure at the food giant for a number of reasons, ranging from long-term health concerns to the chemicals used in Monsanto products.
“There a Smartstax corn that Monsanto has made…it is a corn that resists six different types of herbicide, so you can spray it with six different chemicals and it won’t die,” Heidi Ostermannm, a nutritionist participating in the Berlin march told RT.
“It also produces two insecticides in its own kernels and you can’t wash it off – I don’t even know if technically that’s food. In my mind as a nutritionist, that’s no longer food,” she said.
Anti-genetically modified foods (GMO) protestors demonstrate on October 12, 2013 against US agro-chemicals giant Monsanto in the southern French city of Marseille during a day of worlwide action against the company. (AFP Photo / Bertrand Langlois)
Anti-genetically modified foods (GMO) protestors demonstrate on October 12, 2013 against US agro-chemicals giant Monsanto in the southern French city of Marseille during a day of worlwide action against the company. (AFP Photo / Bertrand Langlois)
Dietrich Wittel, vice president of the True Food Foundation cited experiments conducted on rats, bringing a large poster with him showing the tumors suffered by the animals subject to being fed Monsanto corn.
“There are subtle signs of organ damage even in 90 days. But in two years, the lifetime of a rat is shortened – they have massive organ damage, massive breast tumors in the female rats, and that is really, really frightening,” he said, going on to discuss the effects on larger animals.
“Recently, a study from Australia has shown that pigs that are fed these corn products get massive stomach ulcers…. we have a much longer lifespan that a rat. If we are waiting for cancer to show as a result of GMOs, we’ve got to wait,” he said.
Demonstrators hold up banners to protest against chemical giant Monsanto and its GMO (genetically modified organism) products on October 12, 2013 in Helsinki. (AFP Photo / Heikki Saukkomaa)
Demonstrators hold up banners to protest against chemical giant Monsanto and its GMO (genetically modified organism) products on October 12, 2013 in Helsinki. (AFP Photo / Heikki Saukkomaa)
October is a particularly significant month for US protesters, as Agent Orange Awareness Month is being promoted by the Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance (COVVHA).
“Monsanto was one of the seven chemical companies who manufactured Agent Orange which was laced with one of the most deadly chemicals known to man, dioxin. Monsanto, the other six companies, and the U.S. government, are responsible for the slow burn genocide of Vietnam Veterans, their children and grandchildren,” March Against Monsanto alleged.
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A previous anti-Monsanto protest was held in May. It started as a small event, but turned into a global campaign with over 2 million people in 436 cities, across 52 countries, joining the rallies.
This article was posted: Saturday, October 12, 2013 at 11:10 pm
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Elizabeth Renter
Natural Society
July 8, 2013
Last month, Monsanto executive Robert Fraley received the World Food Prize. This highly esteemed prize, considered among many to be the “Nobel Prize” of food, was given to the chief technology officer of the chemical company who is ironically working to diabolically destroy agriculture as we know it. As Anthony Gucciardi puts it, the “blatant act of transgression” isn’t only obvious to those of us in the natural health world, but to scientists, and food and agricultural advocates around the world as well.
In response to the award (and two other highly questionable World Food Prize awards), 81 Councillors of the World Future Council penned a statement blasting the World Food Prize. These dignitaries are described as “a network of global luminaries who ‘form a voice for the rights of future generations’.” The statement also included names of Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award, or the “Alternative Nobel”. In other words, the statement was written by some esteemed and globally recognized folks—people you don’t necessarily want on your bad side.
In their statement, published in its entirety on Huffington Post, the Council says this year’s World Food Prize recipient “betrays the award’s own mandate to emphasize ‘the importance of a nutritious and sustainable food supply for all people’.” They call out Monsanto Exec Fraley and say he and the other two award recipients played crucial parts in the development of genetically modified organisms which threaten the global food system.
“Almost twenty years after commercialization of the first GMO seeds, by far the most widely used are not engineered to enhance nutrient content, but to produce a specific pesticide or to resist a proprietary herbicide, or a combination of these traits. Even in reducing weeds, the technology is failing, for it has led to herbicide-resistant “super weeds” now appearing on nearly half of American farms,” the Huffington Post reports.
The statement goes on to blast GMOs for perpetuating an unhealthy dependence on fossil fuels and minerals as well as water waste. They point out that although the award is designed to commend those behind nutritious and sustainable food practices, Monsanto’s GMOs actually do the opposite, taxing the environment far more than organically grown crops.
The claims by Monsanto and others who support GMOs are that these franken-seeds can help solve world hunger. But, as the Council points out, these seeds are largely used to produce crops for livestock feed, processed foods, and fuel, not to feed the hungry.
In addition, they write that the practices by these companies in getting farmers to subscribe to their devastating philosophy is making it even more difficult for such farmers to make a living. In India, for example, 270,000 farmers committed suicide between 1995 and 2012 to get out from under debt accumulated by purchasing these high-dollar seeds and chemicals.
In closing, they write:
The choice of the 2013 World Food Prize is an affront to the growing international consensus on safe, ecological farming practices that have been scientifically proven to promote nutrition and sustainability. Many governments have rejected GMOs, and as many as two million citizens in 52 countries recently marched in opposition to GMOs and Monsanto. In living democracies, discounting this knowledge and these many voices is not acceptable.
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