If we dont trust experts/scientists anymore, then we should equaly abandon medical research on HIV/AIDS, Cancer etc and result to Loliondo for all solutions after all over there they use unadulterated plants.

he he he @ impunity !

@ Maichblack is researcher i think,always backs up his points with links.....so i clicked on one of them and this is what it says

"While urging for more independent studies, the AAEM paper cites its own studies alleging that genetically modified foods cause serious adverse health effects, emphasizing more than a mere "causal association" as is commonly assumed. These effects include rapid aging, severe alterations to the major bodily organs, infertility, immune problems, gastrointestinal dysfunction, and disruption to proper insulin regulation, among others"

So you can imagine why with my little info on this topic,i am worried about GMOs......rapid aging ?????????????!!!!! let the debate rage on!

Kudos sasha and Mukiha for the information. In regards to that study i think on of the shortcomings in that study was that there was no attempt to analyze the food source and the bt protein content in the foods consumed by the subjects so as to come to the conclusion that the bt protein was from gm product.
the good book says that my people are perishing from lack of knowledge!

Just one or two questions , Mburuke , are GMO products cheaper than Non-GMO ?
Are there non GMO maize near us(ie from our neighbours ?

I just want to understand why we are importing GMO Maize if the reason for importing now is to mitigate maize shortfall as some of us are saying here.

Yes or no answer suffices.


Pleeease

@user my interest in this debate is about the safety of gm technology and not necessariry specificly pegged on the gm maize that the government wants to import. Genereally any gm product should be cheaper than the existing options for any one to adopt it. However there diffrent gm products developed to adress many diverse and diffrent challenges and it would thus be unfair to lump them all together.
Having said the maize being imported is modified to be pest resistance therefore no need for pestcides and consequently this means less cost of inputs to the farmer which translates to lower cost of production. Am sure the cost of shipping from south africa and other related charges will obviously inflate the final cost, by how much i dont know.
However what am sure of is if this resistance was intergrated into our locally adapted kenyan maize varieties the resultant gm maize would be cheaper! for the said reason in comparison with the hybrids that farmers use.
For those of you who might not be aware this is already being carried out and we have field trials going on in diffrent parts of kenya with very promisibg results.
It seems we are so much concerned about the multinationals instead of asking ourselves how can we use the technology ourselves and generate gm products that solve some of the challenges that our farmes are facing. we dont have to rely on monsanto and the likes to give us the gm seeds we can produce them in our research facilities and use them. I think gm cotton will be one of the first crops to be released in kenya. All in all any gm product is desighned to give the targeted end user a cheaper and more effecient alternative in solving an already existing challenge if it cant then there is no need in adopting it!