Against the Grain

Against the Grain

The article mainly focuses over the shortage of food in African countries and the people dying due to starvation. The three main factors that are influencing the African nation's objection to receive genetically modified grains include the policies of the government. Government is using ticks and tacks such as allowing people to starve in order to divert the attention of the people from their poor performance. Another reason that leads to objection by the African government to receive the genetically modified grains is the anti western views with in the affected areas. The third main reason concludes that in case if the people planted these grains on the African land than the bio tech food companies will demand for their payment. The concerns raised by the African leaders are that GM grains will contaminate their local crops. The African leaders are giving priority to starve apart from eating genetically modified food that they also regard as toxic food. The concerns are effectively answered by the experts in the article.

The African leaders are regarded as corrupt and hide their poor performance by letting people to suffer different hardships. Corruption and ineffective economic policies developed by the leaders of the Africa have destroyed food self sufficiency in the region. A recent case of corruption in Malawi was highlighted in which a minister was sacked by the government for selling the nation's strategic maize reserves about 170000 tones and pocketed the cash. Malawi is the country facing the starvation due acute level of food shortage. The lack of efficiency and the effectiveness of the African leaders can be shown by this article when they rejected to accept the aid of the genetically modified grains in acute starvation faced by the people. The policies of the leaders are leading 13 million people from Africa towards slow death due to starvation. Senior member of the South African Institute of International Relations said that the drought may be a natural phenomenon but the famine is entirely man made.

The writer in this article has quoted different experts to show the necessity of the GM grains and to show the inefficiency and bad governance of the African leaders. John Stremalau, the senior member of South African Institute for International Relations said that the shortage of food in Africa was made by the leaders of Africa and all this famine was handmade. He expressed his view on corruption being held in Africa by giving example of the minister of Malawi who sold out the nation's strategic maize reserves. The concerns raised by the Jason Lott were that African government was trying to hide their inadequacies and corruption blaming the World Food Program and the steps taken by US for the International Development to help the African countries. He further says that GM grains are being used by the European as well as the countries in United States. African people haven't got any option and must use these crops in order to reduce starvation among their ...