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'97 APR ly Pfd y 20 April 8, 1997 COUNT';' COUNTY GF HAWAII Hawaii County Council 25 Aupuni Street Hilo, HI 96720 Gentlemen: I understand that you (Hawaii) are having a problem with the quality of your food exports. Rather than solving the problem at the source or during processing, you plan to irradiate your fruit for export. I don't think this will solve your problem. The FDA no longer has credibility on the mainland. USDA has less. Our chicken contains feces; our laying hens spend their lifetime in a windowless building, never seeing the light of day or setting their feet on the earth. Our hogs are now raised in buildings containing thousands of head. They live on slatted floors over an open septic tank and the meat is cured with their own waste. The manure stench is unbearable and the soil, saturated with manure, threatens the drinking water. The family farm has been forced out of business under our state socialism. Dairy farms have had to go to 300, 1000, 3000 and up to 10,000 head, where little care or concern is given to washing filthy udders before milking, but of course the milk is pasteurized. Our fruit trees, vegetables and soil are sprayed with tons of chemicals and we are told not to worry. Because of all the billions spent on USDA to control and destroy the rural economy, we have the most expensive food in the world, not the lowest as they claim. And you want to be part of this USDA, inertia, incompetence, ignorance, insolence and illusion of economic freedom, get a life. Do all the "specialists" from USDA vacation there and do your thinnking? I thought you were far enough away to keep your islands healthy, beautiful and the ideal place to live. My family uses a considerable amount of pineapple chunks. My dear wife keeps a large container of {6 each) of peeled and cut up oranges, red grapefruit and one large can of pineapple chunks, mixed in, on the kitchen counter. Anyone can help themselves to a bowl at any time-- all gone in three days whereas a bowl of unpeeled oranges, apples and grapefruit would easily last three months, says the wife. Checked the corner turn-table under the kitchen counter and have five cans in stock. Three of Liberty Gold from Indonesia and two Dole from the Philippines and you can't compete with these countries. Neither say they had to be irradiated or were. If your fruit is not fit for export, feed it to the people in your state. I live on a farm in Northern Iowa and do not have the time to protest in front of the supermarket, but the word gets through the network. When your state was 0~ Diw ~.I~.o3 FSIe P(o-- ~~_L,~ ter. To: P.e~. I;xte..~~ 14 t9g.,,~,~