Entries for 'Joni Kamiya'

...there is hope....

Every once in awhile, some of them will piece the information together....

Tonight I decided to attend the “Ethics of Eating” sponsored by the Center for Food Safety, featuring Vani Hari, the Food Babe....

...what’s happening on our farms....

...it needs to be mandatory for every policymaker to come and work on the farm before they can even talk about what policies they want to make....

So what prompted them to address the issue nearly 2 months late? ....

...the Hunting, Farming, and Fishing Association....

...A Caucasian woman came up to my dad as he was working on the field and started yelling at him that he was poisoning her....

When politics start to affect public health and well being, there’s a major problem....

...it’s clear who the real oppressors are....

They have spread misinformation on everything from GMOs, the Superferry, TMT, and now the ocean monument....

... big oil is funding these ocean closures worldwide ....

...this hobby activism of spreading misinformation has helped to fuel hatred and bigotry globally....

If we don’t speak up now and take action, Hawaii’s future will be in jeopardy....

...Gary and Hector kept repeating the words corporations and chemicals over and over....

I have been so dismayed seeing the activists once again playing the “these people are immigrants so their jobs aren’t needed” card....

...not only are thicker bags around, I’ve got a stock pile of paper bags now....

In a few hours, there will be lots of people gathering at the legislature in downtown Honolulu to talk about farmers.  They are miles away from any farm but many have an opinion about it....

Whether it be the fire ants or dengue fever, that is or no concern to them.  They continue to manipulate people’s fears around pesticides and GM technology.....

Hawaii, with our population of just over 1.3 million spread across 7 islands, is apparently a great place to divide and conquer....

“It’s too hard for me!"

Real farming, not those 2 acres of various things you’re growing....

I don’t know whether or not I want to cry or scream today....

...Anti-GMO activists cheer New Years Eve arson attack against Waialua farmer....

...I found a total of 365 complaints made.  If you listened to the Center for Food Safety, you’d think all of them are agriculture related.  It turns out that there were 91 out of that 365 being agriculture related....

We eat science every single day....

...Just the idea of three letters will make people willingly spend some 30% or more on groceries all in the name of fear....

...why do farmers need biotechnology?

I’ve always been skeptical of the activists’ rallying cry....

...ohia trees are dying due to a fungal disease....

Once again, the anti-TMT, anti-GMO, anti-everything folks are going to protest....

She posted an article telling her dimwitted, gullible followers to avoid Hawaiian papayas....

Hawaii is a hot bed for anti-everything activism....

When you have everything you need and never really had to earn it, it’s hard to fully appreciate it....

...ugly comments happily hoping to send people who work on these farms back to where they came from....

...culture gone bad....

I’m starting to think that eating organic is correlated to conspiracy thinking and some degree of paranoia....

You also fail to disclose your own money ties to the organic and health food industry....

With the recent announcement of the closure of the DuPont Pioneer farm in Kekaha, it’s of no surprise that the no aloha crew is out and about again....

It’s a great tactic as so many folks don’t have a clue....

When I keep hearing a’ole over and over, it really gives me the sense of constant fighting but no semblance of a possible alternatives....

...when people can resort to this kind of behavior, it really shows that they are not capable of considering the consequences of their actions....

When I hear the slogans used by protests calling to “rise up,” I have a different concept in my mind....

The prior two years we had protests of A’ole GMO and now it’s moved onto the TMT....

I refuse to be intimidated by their hateful comments against me....

Eating Ben and Jerry’s apparently can make a person morally superior to regular folks who can only afford Meadow Gold....

...the SHAKA Movement is now going after the sugar cane industry....

The best part of the hearing was hearing Dustin Barca go on about toxins and the horrible corporations. He even talked about how the cigarette companies and their evils. It’s weird because I just saw him smoking some corporate grown tobacco and inhaling toxins....