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Friday, January 25, 2019 |
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Auction: Omidyar Dairy Liquidating?
By Andrew Walden @ 9:46 PM :: 6650 Views :: Kauai County, Agriculture, Tourism
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...In addition to spawning anti-dairy activism, Omidyar’s Kauai dairy proposal created a political and perhaps legal precedent requiring previously exempt farmers to obtain an environmental impact statement before commencing operations....
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Thursday, January 24, 2019 |
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HB939: State Ag Bill Restricts Hemp Growers More Than Feds Do
By Rep Cynthia Thielen @ 12:40 AM :: 5340 Views :: Agriculture, Drugs
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...The Hawaii DOA lists the following erroneous justification for HB939: "Given the nature of hemp as a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance . . .." However, as of Dec. 20, 2018, hemp was removed from that list....
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Saturday, December 29, 2018 |
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Dirty Little Hands
By Joni Kamiya @ 3:06 PM :: 6178 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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...It is trendy right now to be telling tales about farmers....
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Friday, December 21, 2018 |
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HC&S Land Sold to Real Farmer
By News Release @ 3:08 AM :: 7246 Views :: Maui County, Agriculture, Land Use
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...All of A&B's existing agricultural personnel will be offered positions with Mahi Pono....
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Friday, December 21, 2018 |
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Trump Signs Farm Bill Legalizing Hemp
By Rep Cynthia Thielen @ 2:22 AM :: 8538 Views :: Agriculture, Drugs
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...Representative Cynthia Thielen (R–Kailua, Kaneohe Bay) celebrates the legalization of industrial hemp through the passage of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (H.R. 2), better known as the 2018 Farm Bill....
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018 |
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A Smaller World
By Joni Kamiya @ 1:12 AM :: 6825 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, GMOs
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...These feel-good ideas are placed upon farmers with no consideration of the consequences of its impacts....
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Wednesday, November 14, 2018 |
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Anti-Pesticide Hysteria: Enviros Shift from Bees to Birds
By Selected News Articles @ 2:37 PM :: 8342 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Greenmail, GMOs
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...As global honeybee population increases, activists blame neonicotinoid pesticides for ‘bird-pocalypse’ that’s not happening....
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Friday, October 26, 2018 |
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Auditor: Agriculture Department Hides $2.4M from Legislature
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 1:49 AM :: 4860 Views :: Ethics, Agriculture
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...not reported to the 2018 Legislature as required by Sections 37-47 and 37-52.5, HRS....
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Sunday, October 21, 2018 |
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Poor Farmer
By Joni Kamiya @ 3:40 PM :: 5562 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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...If you do not farm, why should you dictate how farming should be done?....
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Thursday, October 4, 2018 |
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UH Glyphosate Study Debunked--Bee Death Story Is Bee-S
By Selected News Articles @ 7:58 PM :: 6370 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Higher Education
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...New glyphosate study suggesting danger to honeybee microbiota is detailed, sophisticated—and wrong....
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Monday, October 1, 2018 |
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Food Waste Recycling Program Makes Pigs Happy--But Costs City at H-Power
By UHERO @ 8:45 PM :: 6145 Views :: Honolulu County, Agriculture, Small Business
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“The vast majority of those businesses impacted by the City’s food waste recycling ordinance are continuing to use local piggeries to recycle their food waste.”
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Sunday, September 16, 2018 |
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Lawsuits Close in on Hawaii’s Largest Carbon Credit Scheme
By Andrew Walden @ 9:48 PM :: 18620 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Ethics, Agriculture
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...When a couple of penny-stock touts, one of whom is listed in the Panama Papers Offshore Leaks Database, start selling timber futures and carbon credits in Hawaii, the greenwash is thicker than most....
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Sunday, September 9, 2018 |
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If Everyone Farmed
By Joni Kamiya @ 2:31 AM :: 4250 Views :: Agriculture
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...This weekend was spent planting the new fields....
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Thursday, August 23, 2018 |
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New Rabies Quarantine Rules Announced
By News Release @ 3:08 AM :: 5194 Views :: Agriculture, Tourism
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...Revises Requirements for 5 Day or Less Program....
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Tuesday, August 21, 2018 |
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Think Farmers are Lazy?
By Joni Kamiya @ 11:21 PM :: 4150 Views :: Agriculture
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...This weekend was the planting of the trees....
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Thursday, August 9, 2018 |
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Waianae Ag Park Heavily Damaged in Brush Fire
By News Release @ 3:23 PM :: 3788 Views :: Agriculture
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...four of the nine working farms are total losses. The other eight lots are either vacant with leases pending or currently not in production....
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Saturday, August 4, 2018 |
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EPA Releases Long-Delayed Report Showing Ethanol Hurts Environment
By Selected News Articles @ 10:36 PM :: 7792 Views :: Energy, Environment, Agriculture, Tax Credits
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...including ethanol in the U.S. gas supply is wreaking havoc on the atmosphere and soil....
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Saturday, July 7, 2018 |
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Hawaii's First Hemp Growers Licensed
By News Release @ 1:44 PM :: 6528 Views :: Agriculture, Small Business, Drugs
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...industrial hemp refers to cannabis plants with a tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentration at or below 0.3 percent....
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Friday, May 18, 2018 |
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Backbone
By Joni Kamiya @ 10:41 PM :: 9168 Views :: Ethics, Agriculture, Hawaii State Government, GMOs
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...With the recent passage of the anti-pesticide bills in our legislature, I received messages and emails from certain legislators apologizing for voting for this....
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Tuesday, May 8, 2018 |
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Ookala: DoH Warns on Dairy-Related Water Pollution
By News Release @ 6:14 PM :: 6229 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Agriculture
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...Big Island Dairy has reported untreated wastewater from the dairy’s wastewater treatment system spilled from a damaged sewage pipe in the evening on May 6....
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Saturday, April 28, 2018 |
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SB3095: Legislative Pandering to Anti-Pesticide Nuts Will Affect Every Homeowner and Restaurant in Hawaii
By News Release @ 1:56 PM :: 6722 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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...If signed into law, SB3095 will have Hawaii restaurants crawling with cockroaches--this should be almost as good for tourism as the homeless tent cities Hanabusa is planning....
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Wednesday, April 18, 2018 |
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Hemp Pilot Program Begins Accepting Grower License Applications
By News Release @ 9:20 PM :: 5790 Views :: Agriculture, Drugs
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...HDOA worked with federal and state drug enforcement agencies to successfully import the hemp seed varietal, Yuma, from China....
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Thursday, March 15, 2018 |
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DoA Pesticide Report: Science vs Hysteria
By News Release @ 2:21 PM :: 7960 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Hawaii Statistics, GMOs
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...Six-Month Monitoring Levels Meet State & Federal Water Quality Standards....
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017 |
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John McHugh PhD New Head of Pesticides Branch
By News Release @ 12:29 AM :: 4902 Views :: Agriculture, Hawaii State Government
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...His appointment is effective January 1, 2018. He succeeds Thomas Matsuda who will retire on December 31, 2017....
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017 |
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Hawaii's Best Workplace? Monsanto
By News Release @ 3:28 PM :: 8552 Views :: Agriculture, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, GMOs
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...Monsanto took first place, scoring an impressive 91.6 percent....
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Thursday, November 9, 2017 |
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The Curse of Abundance
By Joni Kamiya @ 12:44 AM :: 6877 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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...We live in a world of plenty which is both good and bad....
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Friday, September 1, 2017 |
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Bill Before Congress: Claim--Hawaii Allows 'horrific legal market' in Dog Meat
By News Release @ 3:49 AM :: 11446 Views :: Agriculture, Law Enforcement, Small Business
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"...An undercover investigation for EnviroWatch highlighted the brutality of dog meat farms in Hawaii...."
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Thursday, July 13, 2017 |
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Invasive Species Inspectors Communicate 'Caveman Style' After (another) State IT Project Failure
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 2:03 PM :: 5395 Views :: Agriculture, Hawaii State Government
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...After more than a decade of development and close to $4.2 million in new and amended contracts, Department of Agriculture has failed in its attempt to implement a central integrated database.... (try MS Excel next time)
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017 |
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Mother Jones: World Health Organization called RoundUp a “probable carcinogen,” but it didn’t have all the facts.
By Selected News Articles @ 3:39 PM :: 7826 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, GMOs
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...A Scientist Didn’t Disclose Important Data—and Let Everyone Believe a Popular Weedkiller Causes Cancer....
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Thursday, June 1, 2017 |
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Rat Lungworm: The Cost of Unintended Consequences
By Joni Kamiya @ 10:55 PM :: 8972 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Health Care, GMOs
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As case number 15 of rat lungworm disease came to light last month, my blood boils a bit because of what has happened over the last several years....
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Thursday, May 11, 2017 |
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Federal organic fraud in America
By Selected News Articles @ 2:02 PM :: 5694 Views :: Ethics, Agriculture
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...40% of the organic food sold in America tested positive for prohibited pesticide residue....
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Saturday, May 6, 2017 |
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Anti-Dairy Activism Spreads: Big Island Dairy faces fine, possible lawsuit
By News Release @ 5:43 PM :: 8486 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Agriculture
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...The fine is based on an inspection DOH officials did March 28-29 in response to Democratic Party insiders....
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Thursday, April 13, 2017 |
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Those Life Saving Facts
By Joni Kamiya @ 12:46 PM :: 9866 Views :: Agriculture, Health Care, Land Use, GMOs
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I asked why CFS and other groups like Shaka aren’t informing followers of rat lungworm disease....
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Friday, April 7, 2017 |
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Dairy: Billionaire Developer Omidyar Creates More Precedents Farmers Can’t Follow
By News Release @ 6:37 PM :: 6193 Views :: Environment, Agriculture
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...the Makauwahi Cave Reserve be the recipient of $125,000 for a supplemental environmental project to be funded by Hawai‘i Dairy Farms....
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Wednesday, April 5, 2017 |
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Hawaii: Monsanto is First Farm Awarded Zero Waste Certification
By News Release @ 5:04 PM :: 7931 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, GMOs
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The first business in Hawaii to earn the certification, Monsanto’s Upper Kunia Farm has been focused on increasing yields while using fewer resources, and has successfully diverted 98 percent of its waste....
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Thursday, March 30, 2017 |
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As Expected, EPA Rejects Anti-Pesticide Activists’ Petition to Ban Chlorpyrifos
By News Release @ 6:12 PM :: 7836 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, GMOs
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...in response to a petition from the Natural Resources Defense Council and Pesticide Action Network North America....
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017 |
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Doubling Hawaii’s Food Production?
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:52 PM :: 4898 Views :: Agriculture
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...The Governor did, at least, stop short of calling it his “Five Year Plan”....
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Friday, March 24, 2017 |
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Double Food Production? Failed Central Planning Thrives in Hawaii
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:30 PM :: 5109 Views :: Agriculture
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When Governor Ige first announced his plan to double local food production, people wondered....
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017 |
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Omidyar Wins by Losing: Kauai Court Ruling Forces Farms to File EIS
By News Release @ 3:57 AM :: 11805 Views :: Kauai County, Environment, Agriculture, Tourism, Pierre Omidyar
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By voluntarily filing an EIS for his dairy farm on Kauai, Omidyar has now brought about a court ruling for the first time ever mandating EIS for farmers statewide....
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Monday, March 13, 2017 |
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The Real Poison in Paradise
By Joni Kamiya @ 4:45 AM :: 8463 Views :: Agriculture, Health Care, GMOs
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The caller had reported that she had seen a farmworker taken off of the field via ambulance and quickly assumed he had been poisoned....
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Thursday, March 9, 2017 |
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HB790: Sue Farmers to Death
By Joni Kamiya @ 9:57 PM :: 7732 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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They tout it as a “common sense” measure but never disclose that there’s a penalty included in the bill that opens agricultural entities up to lawsuits....
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Thursday, March 9, 2017 |
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Civil Rights Violation? EPA Investigating Anti-GMO Pesticide Hype
By News Release @ 4:24 PM :: 8283 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Greenmail
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...only pesticides from agriculture harm only native Hawaiians who are apparently immune to pesticides used on luxury resorts and golf courses....
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Saturday, March 4, 2017 |
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Flooded With Fear
By Joni Kamiya @ 7:53 PM :: 6529 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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...Hawaii is being used in the fear mongering against farmers -- our story has had a global impact....
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Friday, March 3, 2017 |
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Pesticides, VOG, Mercury? DoH Seminar to Train MDs on Hysteria
By News Release @ 2:21 AM :: 9176 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Health Care, GMOs
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This major event for medical professionals is part of Gov. David Ige’s statewide initiative to address community concerns about chronic exposures to pesticides, Vog, lead, mercury and other environmental hazards (allegedly) affecting our keiki....
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Wednesday, March 1, 2017 |
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POTUS Rescinds WOTUS: Hawaii Waters to be Freed of Federal Control
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:22 AM :: 6283 Views :: Environment, Agriculture
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By developing a rule that recognizes the need to work with states to address water issues, the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers will be helping the environment, not hurting it....
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017 |
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Kauai Dairy Farm Withdraws Final EIS
By News Release @ 11:58 PM :: 7974 Views :: Kauai County, Environment, Agriculture
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... an EIS which they are not required to submit ....
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Friday, February 17, 2017 |
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DOH: Dairy Farm EIS Decision Coming Feb 24
By News Release @ 1:08 AM :: 7289 Views :: Kauai County, Environment, Agriculture
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The extension adds eight calendar days to the 30 calendar days allowed by statute for the approving agency to decide if the FEIS is acceptable....
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Thursday, February 9, 2017 |
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Buffer Zone Bozos Descend on Capitol (again)
By Joni Kamiya @ 9:48 AM :: 6897 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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If you look closely at the activists there, none of any have t-shirt tans or even the slightest hint of field dirt under their nails or on their shoes....
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