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For the past 20 years Americans have been denied their basic right to know that the vast majority of processed food in the U.S., an estimated 75 to 80%, contain ingredients that have been genetically modified in high-tech laboratories because giant corporations like Monsanto have been allowed to write the laws and stifle common sense and reasonable labeling of GMOs.
Incredibly, while on the campaign trail in 2007, President Obama made a promise to label GMOs and I just saw the exclusive video! In the past 10 months, the Obama administration has approved 4 new GMOs and currently the FDA is poised to approve GMO salmon.
Tell President Obama that you agree with his pledge to Label GMOs and protect America's right to know what they're buying.
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/label_gmos_now/
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What's this got to do with Hawaii?
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Due to Hawaii's physical isolation it is one of the favored places for GMO producers to run research on new GMO crops, so the GMO industry is certainly Hawaii related. I was surprised to read recently of hundreds of acres of GMO corn being grown on former cane lands on one of the other islands; the GMO companies are being touted as the new big agricultural players in Hawaii, like the old plantation producers of commodity crops.
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Unlike most other Hawai'i farmers, papaya growers have one other issue with which to deal. Many Hawai'i papaya growers are raising a genetically engineered product that has yet to generate the market acceptance and higher sales prices that non-genetically modified papayas command. Japan, for example, does not accept genetically modified papaya.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/articl...90311.html
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Actually, Japan now does allow importation of genetically modified papayas:
http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/sect...payas.html
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cool .... good first step - now to get the consumer to accept them.....
"Don't expect it to happen overnight," Perry said.
hence the labeling controversy - seems gmo producers would rather not own up to it when asked by consumers
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This may surprise a lot of you.GMO is here to stay and we may well starve to death if it were not for GMO.
http://www.civilbeat.com/articles/2010/0...gest-crop/
If you don't believe this story,"Google" hawaii seed corn.
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And we will all certainly starve if a pathogen hits one size fits all gmo crops
The issue is biological diversity and resistance to pathogens provided by different genetics in similar crops. imho
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Right you are Bullwinkie!
Besides; Why are the major GMO companies not Agricultural based entities, but Chemical companies. Their bottom line isn't altruistically feeding the masses, but feeding their profits by making the world more dependent on their products.
Patenting and monopolizing food isn't for the benefit of mankind and should be illegal.
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I agree with you Greg.
Diversity is why cockroaches survived and dinosaurs didnt.
