African leaders who ban GMO are branded criminals aid to be tried for crimes against humanity.

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+ NEW U.S. CALL FOR AFRICAN LEADERS TO BE TRIED FOR " CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY "

Tony Hall, the US ambassador to the United Nations Food and Agriculture

Organization,

has repeated his call for African leaders who refuse the US's GM-contaminated

food

aid to be tried for " crimes against humanity " .

 

When Hall originally called in 2002 for these leaders to be tried, organisations

from over 30 different countries around the world responded with a powerful open

letter calling for an apology for a " reckless comment " which " reeks

of hypocrisy and bad political judgment and has no legal basis in international

law " . Hall's comment, the letter said, " serves only to further damage

the reputation of the US government already suffering for its unilateral,

aggressive

and abusive foreign policy. "

 

But, however ludicrous and inflammatory Hall's comments may have been, it has

played

its part in a viral marketing strategy aimed at painting the US and biotech as

the

saviours of Africa and those that raise concerns as villains. This can be seen

from

an article for FrontPageMagazine.com in which the refusal of GM food aid in

Africa

is listed by an American commentator, in a piece marking the 60th anniversary of

the liberation of Auschwitz, as an example of a modern crime against humanity.

http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=4889

 

+ BIOTECH REJECTION AN " OUTRAGE " AND " TRAGEDY " IN DEVELOPING

WORLD

Willie DeGreef, described as " a biotechnology consultant from Belgium " ,

has told a US Grains Council meeting in California that it is an outrage and

tragedy

when third world policy makers reject " genetically enhanced foods " and

" state that they'd rather have their children starve than to eat " .

 

DeGreef is quoted as saying, " How did we get that far; who was responsible

for whispering (those) messages to those policy makers, " who rejected GM food

aid. " That is something that I would rather sooner or later want to find out,

because you're talking about literally crimes against humanity. "

 

This is fantastically misleading. In the case of Zambia, the country that is

most

often quoted in relation to the rejection of GM food aid, president Levy

Mwanawasa

only reaffirmed his rejection of US GM maize on the advice of his own experts.

 

This was a transparent process in which pro-GM scientists had ample opportunity

to more than whisper their messages. A delegation of Zambian scientists and

economists,

headed by Dr Wilson Mwenya of the National Science and Technology Council,

completed

a fact-finding tour of laboratories and regulatory offices in South Africa,

Europe

and the US, before reporting back to the president. The report concluded that

studies

on the safety of GM foods are inconclusive, and the US maize should be rejected

as a precautionary measure. And there is absolutely no evidence that anybody

died

as a consequence of the president's decision.

 

Willie DeGreef somehow fails to mention that he used to punt GM foods for

Syngenta.

http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=4883

 

 

What you see is what you get

You've made your bed, you better lie in it

You choose your leaders and place your trust

As their lies wash you down and their promises rust

You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns

And the public wants what the public gets

But I don't get what this society wants