In 2022, newly elected Kenyan president William Ruto overturned a decade-long ban on these products and called for importing 10 million bags of them. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these products. In March 2023, the Mexican government banned import of the “Bt” form of one of these products widely used in the US.
ANSWER: GMOs [or Genetically Modified Organisms; accept anything involving genetically modified crops or genetically modified corn; prompt on seeds or crops or corn or other products that don’t mention being genetically modified]
[10m] Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has accused Ruto of being a “puppet” of this man for ending the GMO ban. This philanthropist wrote the books How to Avoid a Climate Disaster and How to Prevent the Next Pandemic.
ANSWER: Bill Gates [or William Henry Gates III]
[10e] This country’s ban on GMOs as part of a disastrous campaign of organic farming ultimately led to a 2022 uprising where protestors stormed the house of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in its capital of Colombo.
ANSWER: Sri Lanka [or Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka]
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