FW: PS Read A Bit from From Sister Binter: Africa: Part 1 - Melinda Gates said Africans need seeds that are able to resist a difficult climate. Watch the video
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Sent: 06 May 2015 18:03
Subject: Fwd: PS Read A Bit from From Sister Binter: Africa: Part 1 - Melinda Gates said Africans need seeds that are able to resist a difficult climate. Watch the video
Go ahead sister Africa! Hail from the great Guinea, Sister Binta will be speaking at the AU Center in New York on May 22, 2015.
From: Binta Terrier <bi...@allafr.org>
To: PLAD Communications <ad...@allafr.org>
Sent: Wed, May 6, 2015 12:46 pm
Subject: Africa: Part 1 - Melinda Gates said Africans need seeds that are able to resist a difficult climate. Watch the video
Dear all,
In addition to Africa's "Messiah" Mr. Toni Blair who appears to be in the business of teaching our leaders honesty, good governance and helping invest our natural resources with the "best outcomes" in sum turning some of leaders into good presidents, now Africa has Mr and Mrs. Gates deciding what Africans need and don't need more than Africans themselves.
It appears as though, we Africans and our African leaders are all bunch of useless and incapable people to govern ourselves, create the necessary institutions to generate jobs, hospitals let alone develop the agriculture sector to feed Africans on the continent and therefore, the mighty Gates have put their money into what Africans need the most:
1. contraceptive to control Africans reproduction
2. Seeds to control Africa's food supply chain.
Yet, the powerful Gates have not build a single laboratory, hospital or industry in Africa for R&D, cure the sick or manufactor fertilizers that are adaptable to the environment and increase crop yield.
Basically: The Gates African agenda seem to be:
- Reduce population growth in Africa at any cost
- control Africans' food supply chain
All these under the banner of feeding the world. Is our world going to face an apocalypse without the genius way the Gates are trying to shape and control it? At least that PLAD's take away from watching this video.
Watch them talking about Africa and Africans on this video.
Mrs. Gates States the following about an African farmer called Joyce:
“.....That year, for the first time, Joyce had planted a new kind of maize seed, bread to tolerate drought. When drought came, most of her crops withered and died, but her maize was more productive than ever. She sold the surplus to buy beans and vegetables and other nutritious food for her family, and had money left over to pay her children's school fees. "That seed," she said, "made the difference between hunger and prosperity," the letter says, adding:
“Joyce's story, multiplied by hundreds of millions of African farmers like her, is the reason innovation in agriculture is so important.”
Granted this maybe true (as no one seems to check these happenings in Africa), one thing is missing in her statement. How much money did Joyce put aside to purchase the Gates "seeds" for her next crop? What percentage of her income will go towards securing the seeds to plant? Mrs. Gates failed to inform on that.
What assurance she has on the ramifications of selling/consuming these GMOs on her friends, family members, and community will have on their health? What will be the long term impact on their environment?
Joyce will now for ever depend on the Gates "seeds" for her entire farming life. Why? GMO seeds don't reproduce themselves. Each year she will have to purchase them from suppliers of the Gates "seed."
We hope that there is a room for Joyce to be able to opt out.
Mrs. Gates seem to know Joyce very well. How many other Joyces does she know?
According to recent statistics there are only 28 countries in the entire world that are growing biotechnology food and animal feeds.
If these GMOs are so good why only 28 countries in the entire wold growing them?
Those using them, are they for exports only or for local consumption?
Who are using them? are the majority in poor and less informed developing countries?
We should ask the following:
How much money is the entire world "donating" to Africa?
How much money Africans are donating to Africa?
In 2010 alone official, "remittance to Africa was $51.8bn compared to the $43bn figure from Official Development Assistance (ODA).
How much of that $43 bn were from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation?
Mr. and Mrs. Gates do not seem to know Africa or Africans. Then, again why should it matter to them.
They are billionaires and therefore, it appears that when one is a billionaire, anything goes. You can try to dictate to foreign nations what they should even grow to feed their people, and how to reproduce themselves (developing nations are anxiously waiting for the rubber condoms the Gates are manufacturing for their women to use).
PLAD would like to inform that there is a new dawn in Africa, a generation of Africans who are far from being billionaires but are now saying enough of all the crap being dumped on our people.
Whether you are an African leader or Foreign leader, or a simple billionaire, our message on behalf of African Youth, women, farmers, school teachers, nurses, doctors etc.. is that you must realize that we believe in true democracy like the American people and the Europeans.
We are therefore, emphasizing the followings:
a. We are rejecting the Gates contraceptives "Depo Provera" ,
b. we are rejecting the Bill and Melinda Gates Genetically Modified Organisms.
c. We want Toni Blair out of our national affairs.
d. We want former foreign leaders out of our continent and our national affaires.
e. We welcome any investor, local or foreign who want to manufacture fertilizers on African soil using African materials or environmental friendly product to help improve plant yield. We are not interested in "bumper crops" at any costs or see a jump in our GDP to look good in the statistics.
f. We welcome any individual group, entity, business, organization interested in investing in Africa, in a partnership that benefits both our communities and the investor(s).
g. No single African leader has the right nor the mandate to dispose of Africa's natural resources as he/she sees fit without full support of the stakeholders. i.e; the citizens of that nation in clear, transparent legislative norms and sanctioned by the true owners of the land, mines, etc in sum, the population.
We Africans are asking our leaders who are already using Genetically Modified Seeds to start Opting out until the ramifications of these GMOs are fully clear to our people on the ground.
We should not allow anybody to dictate to our continent what we ought to grow, eat and how to govern ourselves. Else, we can no longer claim to be independent.
No one can have any power over us unless, we allow that person to have it. As the outgoing president Johnathan of Nigeria so rightly stated
"No ambition is worth spilling the blood of our people."
Other Views on GMOs
Africans are not the only ones rejecting these "Seeds." Europeans also are listening to their scientists' advice and taking into account what their people--consumers want. Not just dump GMOs on them.
Jean-Claude Junker, president of the European Union, on his speech of "A Union of Democratic Change" stated the following:
" I also intend to review the legislation applicable to the authorization of Genetically Modified Organism. To me, it is simply not right that under the current rules, the Commission is legally forced to authorize new organism for import and processing even though a clear majority of Member States is against. The Commission should be in a position to give the majority view of democratically governments at least the same weight as scientific advice, notably when it comes to the safety of the food we eat and the environment in which we live."
Here's what Americans are saying about GMOs
"...support mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods (GMOs). Ever since GMOs entered the market 20 years ago, we’ve been kept in the dark about whether foods we feed our families contain GMOs. While our reasons for wanting to know what’s in our food may vary, what unifies us is the belief that it’s our right. Without labeling of GMOs, we cannot make informed choices about our food. The Just Label It campaign was created to advocate for the labeling of GMO foods."
Watch the video.. http://www.justlabelit.org/a-right-to-know/?utm_source=GS
PLAD's requests to our African governments:
1. Before you accept any aid money tied to GMOs, consult with your scientists, African Diaspora, Civil societies in each African country even if just considering having GMO seeds.
2. We are ready to work with our respective governments among other things, on the "safety" of what our people eat, the environment in which our people live and the product injected in our women's veins to control their reproductive systems.
Until now, our rice, cassavas, corn, sorghum, yam and potatoes have not done us any harm. As we often hear "if it ain't broken don't try to fix it." If anybody wants to improve anything, get all the facts before doing anything that will create more harm than good.
More importantly, with all due respect to Mr. and Mrs. Gates, they are not our gods. We have been living without their billions and ideas, and we can certainly continue to do so without them.
Best.
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Binta
Founder, Executive Director of PLAD
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