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    "id": 1185200,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1185200/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "are protesting a unilateral decision by the Government or the Cabinet to lift the ban without having allowed this broad discussion to happen. Secondly, there is a value called patriotism. Patriotism means you love your own country and you protect your own people. There have been arguments that the introduction of the GMOs is going to disenfranchise many farmers because of the question of the technology that is employed in the field of genetics. There are arguments that many of the organisms that have been created out of this process are subject to very serious patents that one cannot even reuse the seeds once they have planted one crop. They have to go back to the person who patented the crop to buy that particular crop. That means that the Government, in making this decision, is being unpatriotic by failing to protect our very own farmers. Patriotism also means that you love your people. You cannot love your people and as a Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Trade, Investment and Industry, you stand up and say that there are one thousand ways to die so let us add one more way to die so that Kenyans can have a choice. Lastly, there is the need to protect the marginalized. You have been told here that in other countries, the food is labelled as GMO and non-GMO then one has a choice."
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