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And you thought Pearl Harbor was a sneak attack, wait till you hear what is going on in Hawaii these days. In the farthest flung American state, where they presume no one is watching, the GMO pushers are mounting an offensive to genetically modify coffee and taro. Here is an excerpt from a recent article:
“For the second year in a row, proponents and opponents of genetically modified crops have fought their way to no action in the Hawaii State Legislature. Last year, a bill to ban genetically modified taro and coffee died after GMO proponents attached a “preemptive” rider to it that would have forbade all branches of the state and county government from regulating GM crops other than coffee and taro in any way. This year, that bill was essentially resurrected as two separate bills. House Bill 1663, in its original form, would have banned genetic modification of Hawaiian taro and restricted GM forms of other taros to greenhouses. That bill sailed through the House, but was amended in the Senate to delete the restrictions on non-Hawaiian GM taro. It died in the House of any other GM crop was revived as House Bill 1226. That bill sailed through the House, but died in committee in the Senate.”
For the full story read it in the Honolulu Weekly.
The American people, in their righteous might, need to become informed and stand up for the health of our country.
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Hi Kimberly, thanks for sharing this article! It’s a good example of how GMO businesses, particularly Monsanto, have their hands in legislation. Truly disheartening!
Hawaii is so particular about what comes in and goes out of the state that it would be quite ironic (in an unfortunate way) for them to embrace GMO.
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Germany, France, Austria, Greece, Hungary, and Luxembourg have recently banned GMO maize farming, despite EU safety approval underwritten by large US seed corporations that want to dominate the world seed market.