Starvation for the sake of the cause A except from an article on Zambia refusing GMO food:

Zambia, where 2.4 million people face starvation, has refused offers of GM foods, and environmental groups at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg have warned against their use.

If these people get GMO food the activists and paranoid government officials (no doubt well fed both) contend there might be future side effects. But, they seem to neglect that many of these people don't have much of a prospect of having a future right now.... Facts be damned....