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    "id": 243149,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/243149/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Mango",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Christine Mango",
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    "content": "Thank you, Sir. First of all, the GM maize is not resistant to pests like the larger grain borers. These days, you find maize is ground to flour by the greater grain borers because this maize has not been tested here. We just get the maize and everybody thinks technology from the West is always good for us. Why do we not use our own grain which has been here for many years, which has been tested against our pests and which is good for us? We also need to develop capacity to test out all these things. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what happened with our scientists is that they think whatever comes from the West is good to be adopted here. Before we adopt anything, it must be tested here and we prove it is good for us. A case in point is the HIV/AIDS virus. This was a virus that was invented genetically in the laboratories in the UK and US for biological warfare. Now, it is killing us here because we have no capacity to test some of those things. So, we have become the guinea pigs of the West. It is time we developed capacity to test out everything that comes here before we start consuming it. Otherwise, we consume it to our detriment. The other people do not love us, and they do not care what happens to us. It was very good when Zambia rejected maize--- 2014 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES July 12, 2006"
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