GMOs

...to be placed on the December 6, 2013, Council agenda....

What happens if one picks the wrong authority and psychologically ties oneself to a person expressing an argument, rather than to the evidence....

This effect may be span any number of areas ranging from fear of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), fear of nuclear power, fear of vaccinations or even fear of child abduction by strangers....

...in January she was listed as one of Hawaii Island's most wanted....

Hawaii has long had an unfortunate tendency to attract the most extreme Mainland activists....

While watching what was happening in other counties, Maui County decided to approach Monsanto - which has farms on both Maui and Molokai - to require disclosure of the company’s restricted-use pesticides and all information about related practices....

Counties are listening to the most ill informed people and the farmers are being attacked ....

With this afternoon's 6-3 vote, Hawaii County Council members now leave it to Mayor Billy Kenoi to decide whether or not to ban GMOs from the island....

...the undersigned farmers, ranchers and floral & nursery growers collectively produce more than 80% of the food and agricultural products grown in Hawaii....

One day before Kauai County Council set to consider override of Mayor's Veto .... 

...Bill 113 would ban the cultivation of genetically engineered plants in the open air....

We have numerous horrific historical examples of periods of mass hysteria....

Gary Hooser advises anti-GMO activist how to cast multiple votes in online surveys ....

Meet the activists of Kauai and see how they treat their leaders....

Department of Agriculture reaffirmed the Mayor’s assessment that complicated legal issues and practical enforcement and implementation details must be taken into consideration to effectively address community’s concerns....

Must watch video ....

FULL TEXT: Mayor's Veto Message and Legal Opinion from County Attorney ....

Hawaii's dishonest anti-biotech activist campaign....

Here’s a personal account of someone who acknowledges the tactics being used....

These “mobs” are buoyed by their self-image of “total correctness,” and the illusion that they represent “the people”....

Opposition to GMO’s in Hawaii has attracted an eclectic mix of well-worn politicians and other “characters” interested in riding the groundswell of fear and misinformation....

Ritte and activist organizations have collected more than a million dollars from anti-GMO advocacy groups on the mainland....

GMOs are likely saving tens of millions from starvation in underdeveloped countries....

It is amazing how pages like this will have such vile, hateful commentary and then always end it with truth, love, peace, and unity!....

Last night I got a tweet from Christy Demuth, biotech opponent on Kauai.  She's always a delight.  She says that she's found the link between me and Monsanto....

As the Hawaii County Council considers an anti-GMO bill which would require farmers to "register" the locations of their GMO crop fields, another GMO Papaya field in Puna has been attacked by machete-wielding vandals....

The only thing resembling a 'cancer cluster' consists of surfers in Hanalei who spend too much time in the sun....

In an embarrassing move, Councilwoman Brenda Ford, whose Bill 109 would ban all GM crops outright, had former yoga instructor and anti-GMO crusader Jeffrey Smith Skyped in to the meeting to give his testimony....

Barca says. "For me, I can’t sit here and do that. It’s like seeing someone beat up a chick in a parking lot or something. Me, I’m going to go and grab them and tell them, ‘Brah, you can’t do that over here.’ Basically these guys are committing murder on our natural resources. I’m not going to let someone do that to my home. I can’t sit around and let that happen. It’s so personal to me because it’s in my backyard. There’s just no way."

Brenda Ford’s bill, which would destroy Hawaii’s papaya crop and blow a huge hole in the county and state’s economy....

Ceres founders and other mainlanders also funneled campaign contributions directly to Walter Ritte in 2012 for his race for a vacant seat on the Office of Hawaiian Affairs....

...mandatory GMO labels would only intensify the misconception that so-called Frankenfoods endanger people's health...

I could see that this was the first time they had stepped in mud or been to a farm. They were city boys, city girls. Two of them were even sporting dyed hair....

...the orchestration of the hearing and the invitations sent by the chair to selected mainland-based organizations were designed to provide the committee exclusively with the opinions of only those experts on one side....

More than 1,000 swiftly sign letter denouncing anti-GMO militants’ criminal act in Philippines....

During this last legislative session, Monsanto and associates sought to pass SB727....

...Hawaii is at the forefront of modern, high-output agriculture: biotech farming....

it may in fact require everyone who wears or eats or sells a GMO food or other product to register with the county and pay a fee....

Correcting the misinformation being spread by special interest groups about how we farm....

Hawaii currently plays an important role in the global food supply – one far more important than that of its historical sugarcane and pineapple industries....