CEFSAR cautions Nigerians against consuming GMO food
By Ikenna Osuoha
Prof. Qrisstuberg Amua, the Executive Director, Centre for Food Safety and Agricultural Research (CEFSAR), says that Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) induced foods or grains are harmful to health.
Amua said this during a news conference in Abuja on Friday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that GMOs are plants, animals, or microbes that have had their DNA changed using genetic engineering techniques to achieve desired outcomes.
Such outcomes could be improved shelf life, increased yield or pest resistance.
Amua alleged that GMOs had the potential of causing colon cancers.
“Many of the GMO-induced foods don’t digest and as such can cause colon cancer,” he said.
The don, who called for outright rejection of GMOs, said it could alter human’s natural features.
“It can cause impotency, it can cause infertility for both men and women,’’ he said.
He advocated strong political will to resist the proliferation of GMOs in the country even as he commended some African countries for rejecting it.
Amua dismissed insinuations that GMOs could guarantee food security, saying that it was disastrous and genocidal.
Also Speaking, the Deputy Director, CEFSAR, Dr Segun Adebayo, urged the media to rise to the occasion in the fight against GMOs.
Adebayo said it was time to interrogate claims about GMOs which were presented as facts.
According to him, it is time for us to begin to do our own research and say no to some of the imported ideas that tend to enable our self-destruction.
He explained that GMOs were not regenerative and therefore antithetical to the natural law of regeneration.
Adebayo warned against the complicity of some government officials who promote GMOs for whatever reason. (NAN)
Edited by Uche Anunne
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