Vatican's Cardinal Speaks On GMOs Post WikiLeaks

3.2.11

Vatican's Cardinal Speaks On GMOs Post WikiLeaks: "Responding, albeit indirectly, to the recent WikiLeaks revelations that the Vatican secretly expressed approval for GMOs and in attempt to save face, regain credibility and straddle neutrality — lofty goals — the head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, an influential entity within the Holy See, Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, a Ghanian Cardinal, spoke with the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano on Jan. 5, 2011.

In the interview, the Cardinal highlighted some of the problems associated with the GMOs. The Cardinal stated that there would be no need for GMO crops if African growers had access to fertile land that was “not destroyed, devastated or poisoned by the stockpiling of toxic waste” and if growers were able to benefit from the fruits of their labors by being allowed to set aside enough seeds for planting the next year and not be forced to continually buy genetically modified seeds from abroad."