Defining moment as Kenyans await Cabinet’s GMO verdict

Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation officials inspect Genetically Modified cassava at their Mtwapa station in September last year. Such crops are better suited to fight common diseases that compromise yields. [File, Standard]

The Japanese have a popular saying: there is no such thing as bad food when you are really hungry.

It is an idiom the Kenyan Government seems to be taking a cue from as it inches closer to lifting the ban on importation of the controversial Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).