GMO or not, How come I never see any Jobs for the hundreds of acres needing picked? Who leases all this land and to whom? How much $ a year per acre to lease? Most of this GMO land is being Leased yes or no? Seems we have a lot of people in front of Pahoa banks waiting for daily work? Why cant the closest community have more information reguarding there closest farms fumigation, and pesticide spraying schedule? or concentration they use? How much of this GMO food grown here is really being eaten here ? You know statistically? Really Hawaii was really a good invironment for most anything before we have to go try and make it Perfect. Human health and welfare should be considered first you would think?. Like anything it seems we are in a hurry for perfection rather than injoying the actual fruit. Please someone give me a # or address to whom I see for work, lease, buy good farming land in lower puna. Maybe Lyman I was told? Here is just a thought but lets put people to work growing what they want or feel they may need in case of a real disaster out here in the middle of knowwhere. Lets get a bus moving through Pahoa at a given time for those who want daily work when times are tuff.
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gypsy69 try Kapoho Land & Development (808) 935-5810
It's the Lyman estate and they have land they will rent you.
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If anyone has an open mind about this topic, watch or read the 7/24/13 Nova program about GMO's it's an eye-opener!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/nature...with-gmos/
And Nathanael Johnson's article on GMO made me realize many of us are part of the problem with the overuse and misuse of pesticides. Maybe one solution would be to have simple easy to understand instructions, besides the technical pesticide labeling.
http://grist.org/food/roundup-ready-aim-...addiction/
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FYI: *Breaking News
http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/...ml?ana=fbk
Kauai Mayor Bernard Carvalho on Thursday vetoed a controversial bill that would have required seed and other agricultural companies to disclose the use of pesticides and genetically modified organisms on the Garden Isle, a Kauai County spokeswoman confirmed to PBN.
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Isn't it wonderful when the community comes together to pass initiatives?
I wonder what didn't get done while they were arguing GMO...
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These are all interesting arguments some of which have some truth. However, the salient point is whether Genetically Engineered (GE) plants are safe or not. Below is a news release by a scientist who points out why they may be unsafe. Modern genetics now knows that the old model of one gene makes one protein is no longer valid. Many scientific discoveries over the past decade point out that one gene may participate in production of multiple proteins. And, multiple proteins we now know may also be involved in many simple metabolic processes. When one introduces an unknown genetic factor into a genome, there is no way of predicting what the long term effect may be though the short term effect may be to produce the desired effect (e.g. glyphosphate molecules). But now we know that even this is flawed because of evolutionary principles that were also ignored by the biotech industry; now we have rampant and developing glyphosphate resistance (and Bt resistance in insects pests!) in many weedy species (see the second article appended below) as well as altering soil microbe profiles and reducing beneficial fungi (see for example the publication by Cheek et al in Am J. of Botany Vol 99:pp700-707 or the Purdue University press release dated or the startling discovery by Canadian scientist Miranda Hart published in Agronomy for Sust. Dev. vol 29 pp 497-501 that found soil organisms carrying the GE Roundup gene). The growth in weed resistance is leading corporations like Syngenta to begin experimenting with creating crops to produce 2,4-D which contains agent Orange. Thus the agent Orange argument above is valid. And now comes the study by Spisak and colleagues published in PLOS (PLoS ONE 8(7): e69805. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0069805) showing that meal-derived DNA fragments can pass the blood-digestive tract membrane and so are not broken totally down into amino acids as originally thought! This means transgenes can enter our bodies much quicker than anybody thought. To argue that there are no scientific studies supporting anti-GMO adherents is wrong; there have been dozens published in the last few years and more on the way. BUT; still the corporations are NOT releasing their own data.......
Article 1.
Scientist takes on the GMO industry
Monday, November 30, 2009
By Paul Louis
The Organic and Non-GMO Report recently interviewed a California scientist and college professor who has published a paper critical of GMO science. The interview was published on The Organic Consumers Association website.
Ph.D Agro-ecologist Don Lotter's 2009 paper titled "The Genetic Engineering of Food and the Failure of Science" was published in the International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food.
In the interview, Don Lotter expressed concern over the politics and business of University funded research as well as the bad science. He pointed out that the politics and business of funding is largely responsible for the lack of critical thinking and proper research on GM foods.
When biotechnology was rushing to industry eminence with less federal regulation and more funding in the 1980's, the The Bayh-Dole Act was passed. This act gives universities intellectual property control of their research results, making them virtual industry partners. Third party scientific objectivity gets buried by vested interests.
According to Lotter, the basic scientific premise that spawned the biotechnology industry is flawed. That premise was based on the doctrine of one gene for one protein. But the Human Genome Project discovered humans have fewer genes than many simple organisms, while having one to two million proteins.
This simplified view of genes monitoring protein production was the entire basis for advancing genetic engineering technology. " [However] the process of splicing genes into plant genomes, transgenics, causes serious genetic damage-mutations, multiple copies of the transgenic DNA, gene silencing," Lotter said.
"The cauliflower mosaic virus promoter (CaMV 35S) is used in most transgenic crops to activate foreign genes which have been artificially inserted into the host plant. It is potentially dangerous." (Natural Law Party - Wessex, source below)
Lotter explains it was originally thought the CaMV 35s virus would simply be neutralized in the human digestive system. It turns out the virus is not neutralized. Lotter reveals, "It has been shown to promote the transfer of transgenes from GM foods to the bacteria within our digestive system, which are responsible for 80% of our immune system function; they are enormously important".
Don Lotter is not tenured. He expects his outspoken paper to be "career destroying" within the public university circuit. But he feels getting at the truth is more important, and he is hopeful that others will soon be inspired to question GMO's.
© 2009 All Rights Reserved.
Source: NaturalNews.com
Article 2: Farm Press
Resistant weeds changing the way we farm
Feb. 12, 2013
Elton Robinson
• In a recent survey of a small number of Mid-South, Southeast and Texas farmers, seven out of 10 reported that they had one or more resistant weeds on their farms.
• Nine out 10 farmers surveyed said they hand hoed resistant weeds.
• Most rated weed control practices they adopted to combat resistant weeds as effective, although it has driven up their costs.
A survey by the Cotton Incorporated Economics and Conservation Tillage Workgroup indicates that cotton producers are changing the way they farm in response to resistant weeds. Producers say these changes, while effective, are driving their weed control costs higher.
Glyphosate-resistant pigweed was the most frequently-cited problem by farmers, according to the survey, conducted by researchers from the University of Tennessee, University of Arkansas, Mississippi State University, Texas A&M University and Louisiana State University. The results of the survey were presented at the 2013 Beltwide Cotton Conferences, in San Antonio, by James Larson, economics professor at the University of Tennessee. Cotton Incorporated funded the study.
The survey, mailed to 2,500 cotton producers in February and March of 2012, asked farmers to assess the extent of weed resistance in cotton, changes they are making in conservation tillage and weed control, and in other production practices. A weighted sampling procedure was used within counties based on distance from weed resistance epicenters, number of farmers and acres of cotton within the county. Three primary epicenter points of weed resistance were in west Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia.
The researchers received 309 usable surveys. “It’s a small sample so we have to be careful about inferences that we make, but we think it’s very interesting information about how farmers are responding to weed resistance,” Larson said.
Seven out of 10 farmers indicated they had one or more resistant weeds. About six out of 10 indicated problems with resistant pigweed and 25 percent reported problems with resistant horseweed. Glyphosate-resistant pigweed was first documented in 2005, and the survey indicated that new occurrences peaked around 2008-09, noted Larson. New occurrences of glyphosate-resistant horseweed also peaked in 2008-09, around epicenters in west Tennessee and North Carolina, with a few instances in west Texas.
Farmers said consultants helped the most in identification of resistant weeds, followed by chemical or fertilizer dealers and Extension. Farmers said chemical and fertilizer dealers provided the most help in developing a plan for managing resistance, followed by Extension and field scouts.
Nine out of 10 farmers with resistant weeds reported using hand hoeing as a management practice. Other tools for managing resistance were cultural practices, such as crop rotation and cover crop, and to a lesser extent chemical or mechanical tillage.
“One of the biggest concerns of this workgroup is the potential impact that weed resistance might have on use of no-till and conservation tillage practices,” Larson said. “There is a need to document the extent of the problem, the potential economic impacts and what farmers are doing to combat it.”
Farmers in the survey says the biggest change in tillage practices before and after weed resistance was a reduction in the use of no till practices. The survey also indicated that after the onset of weed resistance, they tended to reduce their use of Roundup Ready cotton, while increasing use of WideStrike and LibertyLink cotton.
About 63 percent of farmers surveyed rated their resistant weed management practices as being effective to very effective. “On average, all farmers thought that they were being very successful on average with their practices,” Larson said.
Forty-eight percent of farmers reported that prior to weed resistance, they had weed control costs of $50 or more per acre. After weed resistance on their farm, 92 percent of farmers reported weed control cost had exceeded $50 per acre.
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Today the Mayor of Kauai vetoed the bill the council had passed, saying it had "legal issues."
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Again: he also waited until the bill was passed before vetoing it, rather than advise the council as to what might be vetoable. Maybe Hawaii County will get as far as passing a bill for the state to pre-empt later.
It doesn't matter if the process takes longer/costs more, because ... not only is ther time free, they have nothing better to do.
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Well, kalakoa, they have plenty of better things to do, but they can't see past their narrow ideology to get to the real issues. These would be things like a lack of business building incentives, poor infrastructure, and a brain drain that sees most of our college graduates move away to find jobs.
The only bright spot is the fact that our freshman councilman, Greggor Ilagan, voted against this nonsense that has to potential to wreck one of the few successful business sectors on the island. In a moment of wisdom, the voters of Puna elected Greggor and not James Weatherford to replace the unfortunate Fred Blas. There is at least that much to be thankful for.
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