Statewide pesticide study

[pahoated]

There is a statewide pesticide exposure study being done by the USGS with the state Department of Health and Department of Agriculture.

Some preliminary results are interesting, especially since the anti-GMO hysteria somehow became emotionally tied to pesticide exposure.

In the state, 90% of human pesticide exposure reports came from residences, not farms. Farm workers are regularly tested for heavy metal and pesticide exposure and DOH is showing no poisoning of workers even when they have direct exposure. All those bottles of Roundup in Home Depot are mostly for residential use, not agricultural use.

This is a blog post about the study with links to the ongoing studies. Interesting little bit at the end about an "activist" that found evidence of chromium and arsenic "poisoning" in the ocean sediment. When informed it came from natural erosion of the volcanic soil, his response was that this should not be allowed to happen.

http://kauaieclectic.blogspot.com/2014/0...g.html?m=1
Musings: Statewide Pesticide Sampling

"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"

[peteadams]

That's an interesting blog from Kauai. Don't know if she is a lonely voice there, but she certainly is a rational one. In a post from Wednesday she also may be foretelling a legal drama that may be played out here on the Big Island as legal action against Kauai's county council's ill-considered law gets underway

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Meanwhile, in the real world, the county attorney is asking the County Council today to approve $75,000 to hire special counsel to launch a defense against the chem companies' lawsuit. The county is required to respond to the 70-page complaint by Friday.

Another bill asks the Council to move $500,000 into the special counsel account “for several other ongoing cases, and in anticipation of future needs,” according to county spokeswoman Beth Tokioka.

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http://kauaieclectic.blogspot.com/2014/0...piper.html

Has our council put aside sufficient funds to defend the expected lawsuit arising from their anti-GMO law?

http://bigislandnow.com/2013/11/20/analy...-lawsuits/
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10...3737808588

[kalakoa]

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Has our council put aside sufficient funds to defend the expected lawsuit arising from their anti-GMO law?

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County doesn't really follow the "financially responsible" path in any case, because they can always just raise taxes. Why do you think Kenoi wants the ability (which he is "not planning to use") to raise an extra point of GET?