August is gone with “the bad and ugly” and September is here with the” good”

Let us start with the bad:

• Bt. Cotton National Field Trials (NFT) are currently underway, in Kenya, despite overwhelming evidence, informed by the Precautionary Principle of the Cartagena Protocol https://www.cbd.int/doc/legal/cartagena-protocol-en.pdf  of the Convention on Biological Diversity(CBD)...the evidence suggests that there is need to go slow and avoid the “rush” to adopt Bt. Cotton. Why? Lesson learned from India: : http://indiagminfo.org/15-years-of-bt-cotton-admission-of-failure-official-now/
• Failure of Bt. Cotton in Burkina Faso: Here is eye witness evidence from the ground: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=FgV8OS-QNEk
• Evidence of Bt. Transgenic proteins cause harm to the environment: the soil: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1081/PFC-120018450 , honey bees: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3767790/ and the Monarch butterfly: https://www.nature.com/articles/20338

The ugly? INCREASED use of agro-chemicals harms human health: Any evidence of this? YES. The Case of Johnson Dewayne versus Monsanto: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/10/monsanto-trial-cancer-dewayne-johnson-ruling

• The scientific evidence linking glyphosate aka Roundup with non-hodgkins lymphoma: https://wiki.cancer.org.au/policy/Citation:Waddell_BL,_Zahm_SH,_Baris_D,_Weisenburger_DD,_Holmes_F,_Burmeister_LF,_et_al_2001
• The evidence of carcinogenicity of glyphosate aka Roundup Weed killer from WHO-IARC:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(15)70134-8/fulltext
• The evidence of Bt. Maize aka Corn causes inflammation of gut of animals: https://gmojudycarman.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Histopath-stomach-rats-60-corn-with-Irena-published-paper.pdf and here: https://gmojudycarman.org/

The good? Grow and consume agro-ecological organic foods: As the way forward, the month of September, which happens to be the authors birthday month, is the ORGANIC month:, the fair and healthy month: it’s also the month to celebrate the International Organic Day, September 22; https://www.facebook.com/InternationalOrganicDay/...

The first ever Kenya Organic Festival and Conference on the 21^st, organized in conjunction the Wangari Maathai Institute (WMI) of Peace and Environmental Studies of the University of Nairobi and Organic Stakeholders, including Organic Consumers Alliance (OCA).Follow this link to register: https://www.facebook.com/events/2096834027242277