02-06-2014, 12:40 PM
Arsenic was actually used as an herbicide - not as rat poison by the plantations.
Richard is anything but a lazy farmer. Starting with few personal resources he worked his butt off on leased land saving until he could buy his own farm land in Hamakua. There he has constantly innovateD while raising a family and being deeply involved in a variety of community organizations and boards. By the way - he himself has NO GMO products. He simply sees that in some cases they are the best, least invasive and safest alternative.
When you speak of his destroying the land you have no idea of what either he or any of the other farmers are doing on the island. They actively save the soil - it is their primary life line. All this talk of destroying the "aina" is so ill informed and intellectually dishonest as to be beyond comprehension. Just look at your comments on Richard - because he defends use of GMO products you have jumped to the (incorrect) assumption that he cultivates such crops. From there you have jumped to the (again incorrect) assumption that GMO crops destroy the land. A little (even a tiny little) investigation would have turned this information up. YIKES!
Richard is anything but a lazy farmer. Starting with few personal resources he worked his butt off on leased land saving until he could buy his own farm land in Hamakua. There he has constantly innovateD while raising a family and being deeply involved in a variety of community organizations and boards. By the way - he himself has NO GMO products. He simply sees that in some cases they are the best, least invasive and safest alternative.
When you speak of his destroying the land you have no idea of what either he or any of the other farmers are doing on the island. They actively save the soil - it is their primary life line. All this talk of destroying the "aina" is so ill informed and intellectually dishonest as to be beyond comprehension. Just look at your comments on Richard - because he defends use of GMO products you have jumped to the (incorrect) assumption that he cultivates such crops. From there you have jumped to the (again incorrect) assumption that GMO crops destroy the land. A little (even a tiny little) investigation would have turned this information up. YIKES!