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    "id": 1180145,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kieni, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Antony Wainaina",
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    "content": " This one is a comment. It is not a question. I was planning to put my thoughts on what has been said in this House, more so on food crops and maize. I come from Kieni where we have come from a very serious drought. It has been said in this House that some farmers are still holding up to 5,000 bags of maize while people in Kieni, Laikipia, Isiolo, Marsabit, Wajir and in other parts of this country are dying of hunger. Hon. Speaker, in future, this House should not protect people who refuse to release their produce to the market for sale. In Kenya, we say: “My dress, my choice; my car, my choice; my food, my choice.” However, when we are dying, we are not able to differentiate between what is GMO and what is not. If you may allow me to just quote from history, when the late Mao Tse-ung was the President of China and China was in serious hunger, the people were not used to eating frogs, dogs and other kinds of foods. Because of the hunger that was ravaging China, Mao Tse- Tung told his people, “Eat what you can see in front of you. If you do not die, eat it tomorrow.” That is the wisdom we should apply in this House. Going forward, if GMO food stuffs do not kill us today, we can eat them the following day. We ask researchers in this country to not only restrict The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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