GM foods could be a big a risk

Last Thursday night's 'The Eye' Btv programme discussed one of the topical issues at the 19th World Economic Forum held in Cape Town the same week on genetically modified foods.

Host Sipho Nyanga and discussants Drs Bulawayo and Maphanyane shed some light on aspects of the global discussion on the subject, regrettably giving more time to the prospect of a contemplated law at the expense of how GM products relate to human health, economic development and environmental protection. Perhaps more importantly, the extent to which GM food may contribute to the upliftment of Botswana's status from food insufficiency to self-reliance, thereby protecting the country against the negative effects of the ups and downs of the economies of the Western industrialised countries and our more agriculturally endowed neighbours.