Greenhill Aff
Round # 2
vs Team: La Costa Canyon
Judge: Brian Manuel
Plan Text
Plan Text: the United states federal government should increase agricultural biosafety assistance to the government of Kenya.
1ac w/ cites
They said their afff was the exact same as glenbrooks, so I checked out the gbrooks wiki and their 1ac and it matched .
Contention 1: Inherency
us has tripled its public health to africa and the military expansion is inevitable
GilL Morrison 07
(Freeman chair in the China Studies at CSIS, “China’s Expanding Role in Africa and Implications for the United States”, http://forums.csis.org/africa/?m=200701)
The U.S. Defense Department, meanwhile, is moving forward with plans to create a new Africa Command.
Contention 2: Kenyan Biodiversity
Kenya relies on unsustainable slash and burn agriculture to feed pop
Africa News 99
(http://www.nationaudio.com/News/DailyNation/220499/Features/XX3.html)
But these resources are presently no sustainable because they have been so mismanaged that they cannot survive
Loss of Kenyan Biodiversity through overuse of land causes extinction
Miller and Yeager 94
(Kenya: They Quest for Prosperity)
Statistical averages identify part but not all of an unfolding crisis in carrying capacity
Confluence of experts agree that gmos are safe
Lacy 3
(former Executive Director of the Intl Policy Council on ag, goo, and Trade, SAIS Review 23.1 (2003) 181-202)
More safety tests have been conducted on GM foods than on any food products in history
Contention 3: Mass starvation
SSA faces the most severe food shortages
Trudell 05
(Food Security Emergencies and the Power of the Eminent Domain: A Domestic Legal Tool to Treat a Global Problem. P 277 lexis.)
The most pressing food security problem of today is not the supply of food
Land pressure is exacerbating soil erosion in kenya and the rest of africa
Hanyona 1
(http://www.forests.org/archive /africa/soerthe.htm)
(Soil Erosion is one of the chronic environmental problem facing some developing countries)
This makes Global War Inevitable
Carter 94
(http://www. Iht.com/articles/1999/06/17/edcarter.2.t.php)
There can be no peace until people have enough to eat
Success in SSA with be modeled
Glover 7
(http://www.scidev.net/doddiers /index.cfm?Fuseaction=specifictopics&dossier=6&topic=189)
Successes and failures on the continent will help
Biotech prevents soil erosion
Mcgloughlin 99
(Journal of agrobi0tech management & economics Vol. @ No. ¾ Article 4)
Biotechnology tools are allowing traditional varieties to be revived and safeguarded
Contention 4: MonoCulture
Genetic diversity in agriculture is collapsing
Raeburn 95
(The Last Harvest: The Genetic Gamble that threatens to Destroy American Agriculture)
Never before have so many millions of acres around the world been covered by plants
Causes Extintion
Fowler and Mooney 90
(Shattering: Food, politics, and loss of Generic Diversity )
The biggest single environmental catastrophe in human history is the unfolding in the garden
Development of biosafty in Kenya is Crucial to Maximize the use of local Germplasm that protects diversity
Wambugu 6
(http://bio.org/foodag/action/20030326.asp?p=yes)
Biotechnology will play a critical role in shaping the Future of Africa
Kenya is key to global biodiversity
Jume 89
(Calestous, The Gene Hunters)
Kenya is one of the few African countries with an advanced agricultural system
Observation 5: Solvency
increase in US aid is vital
Paarlberg 03
(http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cia/nic2020/technology_adoption_nov6.pdf)
It is possible to imagina one scenario under which the spread of the technology remains badly stalled
us capacity buliding assistance is crucial to build collaborative networks
Cummings 01
(Bioscience, December)
This simple message, strongly backed by evidence, is not yet well enough understood
US key world leader
Sheldon 2000
(http://www.agbioforum.org/v3n1/v3n1a07-lavoie.htm)
Comparative advantages on the part of US biotechnology firms compared to their European rivals
2AC ON LoST:
non-uniques
no links only turns-biotech proposals will be spun as Bipartisan Economic development and be disassociated from th negitive issues
Plein 91
(Science, Technology & Human Values, Vol. 16, No. 4, 474-490)
The other dimension of economic development is international competition
Bipartisan and public support for biotech
Genertic Engineering & Bi0tech News 7
(http://www.genengnews.com/articles/chitem.aspx?aid=1979&chid=4)
They are very congnizant of the need to stimulate new technology
Biotech popular in Congress
Plein 92
(Science, Technology & Human Values, Vol. 16, No. 4, 474-490)
She attributed this change to the growing acceptance of biotechnology by citizens and policymakers alike.
Plan popualr with the public
Lawrence 6
(http://www.africabiotech.com/news2/article .php?uid=150)
Americans overwhelmingly supprt initiatives aimed at increasing agricultural
And it turns the link public key to poli cap
National Journal’s congressDaily 05
The question of Bush’s approval rating is hardly an academic exercise
Round 5. v. Hooch KM
2AC Answers
Order – T, Heg, Egypt, Trade Off DA, K
No we meet, just rolled with counter interp, competing interps bad, we are T later in block
Their cards only assume the squo, inevitability claims, case solves = main args against the case, Plan is a shift away from the norm
Reads a lot of cards back to all args
At: Australia – Heg in the sqou and hasn’t happened yet – alt severs all relations
Extended Egypt advantage
DA – NU, not on chopping block, congressional earmarks link turn, conflict has been on brink for ever – case solves cuz water is cause, we solve escalation. Keagan.
K – Policy F/w
No link – don’t do security – its water
No link
Critisicm marginalizes Africa in colonialism
86
Aff helps them and they asked so not bad
Cant solve water crisis min Africa the alt fails
Fiating Africa bad for debating
Perm – reject every instance except ours
International fiat illigit
C/I – they only get one K
Team Name Aff Greenhill
Round # 4
vs Team: Newburgh Free
Judge: Sarah Heaton
Plan Text
Plan Text: the United states federal government should increase agriculural biosafety assistance to the government of Kenya
1ac w/ cites
Mostly the same as the Glenbrooks caselist with a few cards changed.
Same advantages
2ac Tricks, Add-Ons,
Removal of GMOs cause the EU to not sanction Iran. ---> Iran prolif.
Answers To Off Case Args
Organic counterplan doesn’t solve mono-culture
organic crops threaten biodiversity and famine
Answers To Major Case Args
All of the case turns are non-unique because Africa already has access to biotech.
All the aff does is increase bio-safety assistance.
Slash and burn and use of pesticides make biodiversity collapse inevitable
Plan doesn’t introduce a new species
Zero risk of super-weeds
Biotech key to solving famine
OCTAFINALS KENYA ADD ON
Agricultural aid crucial to revitilize US/Kenya relations—current aids assistance is not enough
Akukwe, 6 Beyond the Rhetoric, Chinua
‘IT is not suprising that the United…that could stand the test of time.”
US/Kenya Relations key to the global war on terror
China View, 2007
“United States top military officials…and strike against its interests.
Alexander.
MISC
Legislation destroys Bush’s capital and trades off with other priorities
Seidenfeld, 94
80 Iowa L. Rev. 1
“The cumbersome process of enacting legislation…to implement his policy vision.”
Round # 2
vs Team: La Costa Canyon
Judge: Brian Manuel
Plan Text
Plan Text: the United states federal government should increase agricultural biosafety assistance to the government of Kenya.
1ac w/ cites
They said their afff was the exact same as glenbrooks, so I checked out the gbrooks wiki and their 1ac and it matched .
Contention 1: Inherency
us has tripled its public health to africa and the military expansion is inevitable
GilL Morrison 07
(Freeman chair in the China Studies at CSIS, “China’s Expanding Role in Africa and Implications for the United States”, http://forums.csis.org/africa/?m=200701)
The U.S. Defense Department, meanwhile, is moving forward with plans to create a new Africa Command.
Kenya biotech is inevitable but it’s not effective
Kameri-Mbote 2007
(Prof of Law @ Intl Envrio Law research center in Kenya, http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/index.cfm?fuseaction=dossierReaditem&type=3&itemid=623&language=1&dossier=6 )
But unless there is widespread demand and strong official backing for national bio safety regulations
Usaid’s biotech strategy is currently insufficient-needs help for success
Eicher 06
(Prof of ag economics @ MSU, http://www.africabiotech.com/pdf/Crop-Biotechnology-and-the-Africa-Farmer.pdf)
There is a need to develop a plan to train the next generation of African scientists
Contention 2: Kenyan Biodiversity
Kenya relies on unsustainable slash and burn agriculture to feed pop
Africa News 99
(http://www.nationaudio.com/News/DailyNation/220499/Features/XX3.html)
But these resources are presently no sustainable because they have been so mismanaged that they cannot survive
Loss of Kenyan Biodiversity through overuse of land causes extinction
Miller and Yeager 94
(Kenya: They Quest for Prosperity)
Statistical averages identify part but not all of an unfolding crisis in carrying capacity
Biotech key to restoring Biodiverstiy
Braun and Ammann 96
(http://www.botanischergarten.ch/EFB/UNESCO-Biodiv-Biotech-Final.pdf)
The single most promising way to avoid habitat destruction is to increase farm yields
Overhelming majority of experts conclude aff
Leisinger 99
(http://www.syngentafoundation.org/green_biotechnology.htm)
There is a wealth of peer-reviewed serious analyses that see a great potential
Confluence of experts agree that gmos are safe
Lacy 3
(former Executive Director of the Intl Policy Council on ag, goo, and Trade, SAIS Review 23.1 (2003) 181-202)
More safety tests have been conducted on GM foods than on any food products in history
Contention 3: Mass starvation
SSA faces the most severe food shortages
Trudell 05
(Food Security Emergencies and the Power of the Eminent Domain: A Domestic Legal Tool to Treat a Global Problem. P 277 lexis.)
The most pressing food security problem of today is not the supply of food
Land pressure is exacerbating soil erosion in kenya and the rest of africa
Hanyona 1
(http://www.forests.org/archive /africa/soerthe.htm)
(Soil Erosion is one of the chronic environmental problem facing some developing countries)
This makes Global War Inevitable
Carter 94
(http://www. Iht.com/articles/1999/06/17/edcarter.2.t.php)
There can be no peace until people have enough to eat
Impact extinction
Francis 94
(http://www.ianr.unl.edu/ianr/csas/v6ch8)
These depredations are clearly not sustainable
Kenya Biotech spillover
Nidirtu 96
(http://www.isaaa.org/resources/publications/about_isaaa/annual_report96/annual_report96_5htm)
Kenya will be able to share its technology and know-how with
Success in SSA with be modeled
Glover 7
(http://www.scidev.net/doddiers /index.cfm?Fuseaction=specifictopics&dossier=6&topic=189)
Successes and failures on the continent will help
Smooth Transition to Biotech in the only way to avert mass startvation
Chassey 3
(http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/sites/0903/ijee/chassy.htm)
There is clearly a need to develop crop varieties and management strategies
Biotech prevents soil erosion
Mcgloughlin 99
(Journal of agrobi0tech management & economics Vol. @ No. ¾ Article 4)
Biotechnology tools are allowing traditional varieties to be revived and safeguarded
Contention 4: MonoCulture
Genetic diversity in agriculture is collapsing
Raeburn 95
(The Last Harvest: The Genetic Gamble that threatens to Destroy American Agriculture)
Never before have so many millions of acres around the world been covered by plants
Causes Extintion
Fowler and Mooney 90
(Shattering: Food, politics, and loss of Generic Diversity )
The biggest single environmental catastrophe in human history is the unfolding in the garden
Development of biosafty in Kenya is Crucial to Maximize the use of local Germplasm that protects diversity
Wambugu 6
(http://bio.org/foodag/action/20030326.asp?p=yes)
Biotechnology will play a critical role in shaping the Future of Africa
Kenya is key to global biodiversity
Jume 89
(Calestous, The Gene Hunters)
Kenya is one of the few African countries with an advanced agricultural system
Observation 5: Solvency
increase in US aid is vital
Paarlberg 03
(http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cia/nic2020/technology_adoption_nov6.pdf)
It is possible to imagina one scenario under which the spread of the technology remains badly stalled
us capacity buliding assistance is crucial to build collaborative networks
Cummings 01
(Bioscience, December)
This simple message, strongly backed by evidence, is not yet well enough understood
US key world leader
Sheldon 2000
(http://www.agbioforum.org/v3n1/v3n1a07-lavoie.htm)
Comparative advantages on the part of US biotechnology firms compared to their European rivals
2AC ON LoST:
non-uniques
no links only turns-biotech proposals will be spun as Bipartisan Economic development and be disassociated from th negitive issues
Plein 91
(Science, Technology & Human Values, Vol. 16, No. 4, 474-490)
The other dimension of economic development is international competition
Bipartisan and public support for biotech
Genertic Engineering & Bi0tech News 7
(http://www.genengnews.com/articles/chitem.aspx?aid=1979&chid=4)
They are very congnizant of the need to stimulate new technology
Biotech popular in Congress
Plein 92
(Science, Technology & Human Values, Vol. 16, No. 4, 474-490)
She attributed this change to the growing acceptance of biotechnology by citizens and policymakers alike.
Plan popualr with the public
Lawrence 6
(http://www.africabiotech.com/news2/article .php?uid=150)
Americans overwhelmingly supprt initiatives aimed at increasing agricultural
And it turns the link public key to poli cap
National Journal’s congressDaily 05
The question of Bush’s approval rating is hardly an academic exercise
Round 5. v. Hooch KM
2AC Answers
Order – T, Heg, Egypt, Trade Off DA, K
No we meet, just rolled with counter interp, competing interps bad, we are T later in block
Their cards only assume the squo, inevitability claims, case solves = main args against the case, Plan is a shift away from the norm
Reads a lot of cards back to all args
At: Australia – Heg in the sqou and hasn’t happened yet – alt severs all relations
Extended Egypt advantage
DA – NU, not on chopping block, congressional earmarks link turn, conflict has been on brink for ever – case solves cuz water is cause, we solve escalation. Keagan.
K – Policy F/w
No link – don’t do security – its water
No link
Critisicm marginalizes Africa in colonialism
86
Aff helps them and they asked so not bad
Cant solve water crisis min Africa the alt fails
Fiating Africa bad for debating
Perm – reject every instance except ours
International fiat illigit
C/I – they only get one K
Team Name Aff Greenhill
Round # 4
vs Team: Newburgh Free
Judge: Sarah Heaton
Plan Text
Plan Text: the United states federal government should increase agriculural biosafety assistance to the government of Kenya
1ac w/ cites
Mostly the same as the Glenbrooks caselist with a few cards changed.
Same advantages
2ac Tricks, Add-Ons,
Removal of GMOs cause the EU to not sanction Iran. ---> Iran prolif.
Answers To Off Case Args
Organic counterplan doesn’t solve mono-culture
organic crops threaten biodiversity and famine
Answers To Major Case Args
All of the case turns are non-unique because Africa already has access to biotech.
All the aff does is increase bio-safety assistance.
Slash and burn and use of pesticides make biodiversity collapse inevitable
Plan doesn’t introduce a new species
Zero risk of super-weeds
Biotech key to solving famine
OCTAFINALS KENYA ADD ON
Agricultural aid crucial to revitilize US/Kenya relations—current aids assistance is not enough
Akukwe, 6 Beyond the Rhetoric, Chinua
‘IT is not suprising that the United…that could stand the test of time.”
US/Kenya Relations key to the global war on terror
China View, 2007
“United States top military officials…and strike against its interests.
Alexander.
MISC
Legislation destroys Bush’s capital and trades off with other priorities
Seidenfeld, 94
80 Iowa L. Rev. 1
“The cumbersome process of enacting legislation…to implement his policy vision.”