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The year was 2002, and extreme hunger in Africa threatened over 15 million people.The United States allowed the affected African countries to import food aid to help needy people. This gesture of kindness was met with hesitation and denial because the food imports contained genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Levy Mwanawasa, the then-president of Zambia, stated that GMOs were poison and would not be acceptable to his people. That year, The Economist published an article titled Better Dead than GM-fed that laid bare African sentiments towards GMOs. His comments lacked scientific merit because there was no evidence that GMOs were unhealthy and unsafe for human consumption. The European Union has been waging war against GMOs for decades, citing safety and health concerns for its citizens.

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