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Thursday, September 8, 2016 |
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Harsh Realities
By Joni Kamiya @ 7:25 PM :: 5250 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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...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....
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Monday, September 5, 2016 |
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Saturday, August 20, 2016 |
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Hepatitis? Zika? Anti-GMO Crowd Gets Squirrely
By Joni Kamiya @ 10:24 PM :: 6459 Views :: Health Care, GMOs
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So what prompted them to address the issue nearly 2 months late? ....
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Saturday, July 30, 2016 |
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Screaming Haole Trespasses on Farm, Destroys Papaya Trees
By Joni Kamiya @ 3:35 AM :: 9738 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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...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....
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Thursday, July 14, 2016 |
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Ninth Circuit Appears Poised To Preempt Hawaii 'GMO' Ordinances
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 AM :: 3874 Views :: GMOs
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On June 15, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments in three related bids to invalidate separate Hawaiian county ordinances....
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Sunday, June 26, 2016 |
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The Surprisingly Sudden Demise of the Anti-GMO Movement
By Selected News Articles @ 7:19 PM :: 6581 Views :: GMOs
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How did this happen so quickly?
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Friday, June 24, 2016 |
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Oppression of Education
By Joni Kamiya @ 1:54 AM :: 9040 Views :: Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA, GMOs
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...it’s clear who the real oppressors are....
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Friday, June 17, 2016 |
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Ninth Circuit Digs In on Hawaii GMO Rules
By Selected News Articles @ 9:16 PM :: 4990 Views :: GMOs
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The implications of the court's ruling or rulings in this case will be vast....
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Thursday, June 16, 2016 |
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VIDEO: Ninth Circuit Oral Arguments In Hawaii Anti-GMO Cases
By Robert Thomas @ 9:47 PM :: 4189 Views :: GMOs
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Official full-length Ninth Circuit video recording of the hearings....
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016 |
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Maui: 60% Bogus Signatures on Ballot Petition to Seize Farms from Owners
By News Release @ 5:00 PM :: 12308 Views :: Agriculture, Land Use, GMOs
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...It's unclear how much was spent paying people to collect signatures, or where the money came from, because those loudly demanding transparency don't practice it themselves....
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Monday, June 13, 2016 |
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Activists: GMOs and Pesticides Cause Homosexuality
By Joni Kamiya @ 7:46 PM :: 6166 Views :: GMOs
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...this hobby activism of spreading misinformation has helped to fuel hatred and bigotry globally....
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Thursday, June 2, 2016 |
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It’s not just for the birds--GM mosquitoes could stave off Zika in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 4:47 PM :: 5602 Views :: Health Care, GMOs
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Zika will not just disappear in Hawaii, it will take constant vigilance, and lots of pesticide spray, to keep it in check....
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Friday, May 27, 2016 |
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9 misdirected arguments against GMOs
By Selected News Articles @ 9:49 PM :: 7927 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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...many arguments are put forth on why GMOs are “bad” and should be avoided. However, many of these arguments are not about GMOs, but rather, are issues that we’re facing in modern agriculture and in our economy....
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Tuesday, May 17, 2016 |
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If
By Joni Kamiya @ 2:48 AM :: 5404 Views :: GMOs
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If we don’t speak up now and take action, Hawaii’s future will be in jeopardy....
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Sunday, May 15, 2016 |
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Organically Grown Tax Credits on Way to Governor
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 5486 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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If this credit does indeed become law, expect to see a lot of begging and pleading....
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016 |
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The Plan to Rescue Hawaii’s Birds with Genetic Engineering
By Selected News Articles @ 6:39 PM :: 4755 Views :: GMOs
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Hawaii had no mosquitoes up until 1826. That’s when, historians say, a whaling vessel that had taken on water in Mexico carelessly “drained dregs alive with wrigglers” into a stream on Maui....
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Wednesday, May 4, 2016 |
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Disgusting: Another Massive Recall of Hawaii Organic Food Infested with Listeria
By News Release @ 4:30 AM :: 5729 Views :: Health Care, GMOs
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... serious and sometimes fatal infections ... high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women ....
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Sunday, April 24, 2016 |
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Organically Growing Tax Credits
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 7309 Views :: Agriculture, Tax Credits, GMOs
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Renewable fuel proponents took another shot this year at enacting a renewable fuels credit....
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Friday, April 22, 2016 |
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The Ideology War: UH Law School Debates GMOs
By Joni Kamiya @ 6:35 PM :: 4827 Views :: GMOs
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...Gary and Hector kept repeating the words corporations and chemicals over and over....
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016 |
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Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Could End Disease Transmission
By Selected News Articles @ 3:39 PM :: 5363 Views :: Health Care, GMOs
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Field trials in Brazil are using a genetically modified form of the A. aegypti mosquito....
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Friday, April 15, 2016 |
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Scientists use ‘assisted evolution’ in attempt to save coral reefs
By Selected News Articles @ 11:54 PM :: 4457 Views :: Environment, GMOs
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…The Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology occupies its own tiny island in Kaneohe Bay, known as Moku o Lo‘e....
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Friday, April 15, 2016 |
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Brown Hands
By Joni Kamiya @ 2:46 PM :: 6075 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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I have been so dismayed seeing the activists once again playing the “these people are immigrants so their jobs aren’t needed” card....
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016 |
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USDA on Dengue Mosquito Eradication -- Organic Farms Will NOT Lose Certification
By Andrew Walden @ 6:44 PM :: 8460 Views :: Hawaii County , Agriculture, Health Care, GMOs
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...dozens of Hawaii County organic farmers are refusing access to State and County mosquito-eradication workers....
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Thursday, March 17, 2016 |
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Organic Farmers Thwart Tropical Disease Eradication Efforts
By Selected News Articles @ 6:44 PM :: 6960 Views :: Agriculture, Health Care, GMOs
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"It's not a question of if, it's a question of when Zika comes here to this island, and we have a very unique opportunity right now to squash it."
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Friday, March 11, 2016 |
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Full Text: Kauai Pesticide Report
By News Release @ 4:17 PM :: 7184 Views :: Kauai County, Agriculture, GMOs
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The JFF group has released its Draft Final Report for public comments....
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Sunday, March 6, 2016 |
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Vegans are Crazy: Does Study Stand Up?
By Jack Dini @ 8:17 PM :: 6033 Views :: Health Care, GMOs
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A post showing vegetarians and veggies tend to have significantly more mental disorders and health issues than meat-loving people has gone viral....
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016 |
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BBC: Use genetically modified mosquitoes on Big Island
By Selected News Articles @ 2:35 PM :: 5970 Views :: Health Care, GMOs
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...while GM methods face challenges when applied in a continent as large as Africa, there is no such issue on an island isolated in middle of the Pacific Ocean....
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Thursday, February 11, 2016 |
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The Last Farmer Standing
By Joni Kamiya @ 1:52 AM :: 6415 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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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....
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Sunday, February 7, 2016 |
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As Farms Close, Reps Ing and Lee Jump on Anti-GMO Bandwagon
By Joni Kamiya @ 12:55 AM :: 6220 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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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.....
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Wednesday, February 3, 2016 |
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Video: Anti-GMO Crackpot Peddles ‘Molecular Hydrogen’ Tablets
By Joni Kamiya @ 5:00 PM :: 4975 Views :: GMOs
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Hawaii, with our population of just over 1.3 million spread across 7 islands, is apparently a great place to divide and conquer....
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Monday, February 1, 2016 |
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Labeling a Cop Out Mentality
By Joni Kamiya @ 4:27 AM :: 4263 Views :: GMOs
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“It’s too hard for me!"
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Friday, January 22, 2016 |
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Everything you need to know about Zika, virus that’s spreading like wildfire
By Selected News Articles @ 11:07 PM :: 5177 Views :: Health Care, GMOs
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... will anti-GMO activists block mosquito eradication efforts? ....
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Tuesday, January 5, 2016 |
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Anti-GMO Leader: “Bring Islamic Nation to Battle in Hawaii—Allah Akbar”
By Joni Kamiya @ 6:21 PM :: 8412 Views :: Agriculture, Law Enforcement, GMOs
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...Anti-GMO activists cheer New Years Eve arson attack against Waialua farmer....
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Thursday, December 31, 2015 |
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Hawaii Pesticide Complaints: Urban Homeowners are #1 Violator
By Joni Kamiya @ 11:12 PM :: 6358 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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...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....
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015 |
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EColi Chipotle: Thousands Sickened by Organic Filth at GMO-Free Restaurant Chain
By Selected News Articles @ 5:28 PM :: 4972 Views :: GMOs
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Smugness and happy talk about sustainability aren’t working anymore....
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Friday, December 18, 2015 |
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Vegetarian Questions
By Jack Dini @ 3:00 PM :: 7491 Views :: Agriculture, Health Care, GMOs
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...fruits, vegetables, diary and seafood are more harmful to the environment because these foods have relatively high resource uses and green gas emissions per calorie....
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Thursday, December 17, 2015 |
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Lawsuit: Deadly ‘Natural’ Supplement contained “methamphetamine-like chemical”
By Selected News Articles @ 12:53 PM :: 5610 Views :: Health Care, GMOs
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'Natural' supplement makers are a key funding source for the anti-GMO movement....
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015 |
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Feds: ‘Organic Farms and General Opposition to Chemicals Present Insurmountable Obstacle’ to Dengue Eradication
By News Release @ 11:42 PM :: 7356 Views :: Agriculture, Health Care, GMOs
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"...homeowner reluctance (many organic farms in the area and general opposition to chemicals) ... likely present unsurmountable obstacles...."
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015 |
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Science--The Life of the Land
By Joni Kamiya @ 2:09 PM :: 4358 Views :: GMOs
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We eat science every single day....
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Friday, December 4, 2015 |
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Hawaii Biotech Receives Contract To Develop Dengue Vaccine–Anti-GMO Activist Gabbard Supports
By News Release @ 3:04 PM :: 5356 Views :: Health Care, GMOs
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Leading anti-GMO, anti-Vaxxers, and anti-pesticide activists and politicians are supporting the GMO, vaccine, and pesticide application being used to fight dengue. They are hypocrites and need to be called on it....
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Monday, November 30, 2015 |
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Monsanto uses less than 1% of Total Hawaii Pesticides
By News Release @ 9:17 PM :: 7196 Views :: Agriculture, Hawaii Statistics, GMOs
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In Hawaii, all agricultural users combined account for only about one-third of total restricted use pesticide (RUP) sold in the state....
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Sunday, November 29, 2015 |
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Vote-by-Mail: Old-Boy Trick to Disenfranchise Independent Voters?
By Andrew Walden @ 9:43 PM :: 7303 Views :: Labor, Office of Elections, GMOs
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in 2014 the difference in voting pattern between absentee voters and Election Day voters was as much as 37.2% ...
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Monday, November 23, 2015 |
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Why Saying ‘GMOs Are Safe’ isn’t Helping
By Joni Kamiya @ 6:50 PM :: 5363 Views :: GMOs
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...Just the idea of three letters will make people willingly spend some 30% or more on groceries all in the name of fear....
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015 |
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Feds Indict ‘Natural’ Supplements Makers behind Hawaii Death
By News Release @ 10:47 PM :: 5211 Views :: Health Care, GMOs
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Much of the alleged fraud focused on the defendants’ claims that their products were made from natural plant extracts. In truth, as one defendant put it, “lol stuff is completely 100 % synthethic [sic]”....
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Friday, November 13, 2015 |
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Organics: Another Fine Government Mess
By NCPA @ 1:32 PM :: 6571 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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The current Chipotle E-Coli outbreak offers an opportunity for shoppers to understand the true nature of the USDA’s organic certification program....
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Thursday, October 22, 2015 |
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VIDEO: Molokai Farmers not fooled by Ashley Lukens Anti-GMO Show
By Video @ 1:51 PM :: 6257 Views :: GMOs
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Visibly shaken in the face of pushback far more polite than what her own movement regularly dishes out, Ashley folded and beat a quick retreat....
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015 |
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Why GMO?
By Joni Kamiya @ 3:21 PM :: 6016 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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...why do farmers need biotechnology?
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Sunday, October 11, 2015 |
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Recall: Disgusting Organic Cheese Infested with Listeria
By News Release @ 12:07 AM :: 4304 Views :: GMOs
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...can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems....
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015 |
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Activists Claim GMOs Cause Homosexuality
By Joni Kamiya @ 7:47 PM :: 7610 Views :: GMOs
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I’ve always been skeptical of the activists’ rallying cry....
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Tuesday, October 6, 2015 |
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‘Know GMO’ documentary challenges anti-GM scare campaign
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 PM :: 4258 Views :: GMOs
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...this documentary that will bring the voice of scientists in laboratories and farmers in the papaya fields in Hawaii and banana gardens in Uganda to the global audience....
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