sugar cane exits - dow agrow enters

[Kelena]

The tragedy is that agricultural land has basically been turned into an agri-business test tube. Every time an acre of agricultural land goes out of production in Hawaii, the state loses an another acre to feed its people. Hawaii needs to reduce its food importants, make its own milk, eat its own papayas and avocados and its own sugar and pineapples. Go to the farmer's markets. Check those boxes. Mexico????!!! That is insane.

This is the fault of a government that thinks of itself as an adjunct of the mainland, rather than an important experiment in independent living, through local production.

This is a loss. Grow food locally. Cut out the mega-middleman. This is a step in the wrong direction.