11-14-2008, 02:53 PM
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Originally posted by Jon
the ban is also a good way to help keep prices and profits up.
Jon,
It might make your posts interesting if you bothered to learn something about the topic.
As it happens, the price received by Hawaii, especially Kona, coffee producers is indeed kept high because it can be sold as a specialty crop -- no government push, no false promises, just real-world markets. To contaminate it with GMO would certainly destroy that premium and leave Hawaii coffee to be sold as ordinary stuff at bottom-level prices, with no benefit to Hawaii coffee growers. That is why Hawaii coffee growers wanted the ban.
As was repeatedly stated at the Council meeting, should a specific necessity arise, the ban can be reviewed and amended to change whatever needs to be changed. When -- not if -- GMO coffee contaminates other coffee, that cannot be reversed.
In Texas it might be considered macho and right-on to shoot from the hip (or lip as it were), like you have done above. Just in case you haven't noticed, you're not in Texas anymore.
James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park