Kenya: GMOs Put Our Food at Grave Risk

1 November 2014
opinion

This government is a strong believer in free market economy. For starters, market fundamentalism is premised on the supremacy of the invisible hand of market forces of supply and demand.

So, when candidate Uhuru Kenyatta (as he then was) extolled the virtue of "Willing buyer, willing seller", he was telling Kenyans: "Leave it to the market forces, stupid." To adherents of market fundamentalism, the customer is always king. It is, therefore, curious that the government headed by Kenyatta appears to believe, when it comes to genetic modification and the development and popularisation of transgenic food products, that the customer is always wrong.

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