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    "id": 1184288,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1184288/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) John Mutunga",
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    "content": "from one organism to another is normally called a recombinant gene. It has to have that characteristic of being able to combine with the genes of that other organism. Hon. Temporary Speaker, GMOs are all forms of organisms, be they animals or plants, whose gene composition is changed. There is no evidence in any scientific discourse or otherwise anywhere in the world to show that all GMOs are dangerous to humans or to the environment. In this particular case, we are talking of a GMO called BT Maize, to which I will narrow my discussion This GMO has been made to protect itself from maize stalk borer through genetic transformation. The protection has been brought about by extracting a gene from a bacterium that is found in the swell. The swelling outside the maize stalk has that bacteria. The bacteria is called Bacillus Thuringiensis . This particular bacterium has the characteristic of killing the stalk borer. The stalk borer is the larval form in the stages of development of those insects - there is the larvae or worm stage, the one that bores through stalks of maize. Therefore, it has to be controlled by use of chemicals. What science has done is to identify a bacterium with poison to kill the stalk borer. That is the only transformation that has been done to the normal maize – that is introducing this gene, which makes maize resistant to this worm or larvae stage of the pest."
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