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...World Food Program recently signed an agreement with the Zambian government to provide thousands of tons of wheat to the starving citizens of Zambia. Controversy over the introduction of genetically modified (GM) crops into the Zambian agricultural sector had previously delayed the distribution of GM food aid to drought-stricken Zambia. The Zambian government’s first priority must be to preserve its citizens’ lives by distributing food to combat the African nation’s growing famine. In spite of concerns that GM food aid may harm the Zambian agricultural economy in the future...
Zambia’s economy depends on grain exports, most of which go to Europe. Currently, Zambia cultivates non-GM varieties of grain. If GM crops were planted in Zambia, cross-fertilization among crop strains would almost certainly cause Zambian grain harvests to contain at least some GM kernels. The presence of genetically altered grain in the nation’s harvest would prevent any Zambian grain from being shipped to European countries because of import bans on GM food, thus depriving Zambia of its principal export market and seriously damaging the long-term health of the Zambian agricultural economy...
...alleviate the famine currently plaguing Zambia and other African nations. The food has been languishing in warehouses for weeks as diplomats wrangle over whether to allow GM crops into Zambia, given the possibility for cross-fertilization and the ensuing loss of European export markets. Meanwhile, the toll of Zambian lives claimed by starvation continues to mount...
...solution is clear: Immediate distribution of non-GM grains like wheat and rapid milling of GM corn, to be shipped directly to the Zambian people. But major U.S. grain companies have been actively lobbying to use only non-milled GM crops for aid in an attempt to corner the African grain market. If GM crops contaminate Zambia, it will neither be able to sell excess crops to the European Union nor continue to grow GM grain without buying further shipments of seed grain from America...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Persuades renegade Zambian archbishop to leave wife, renounce Moonies. Till Papa do us part...