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<br /> new cw ....,r. ice. u~~ .,o.~ - <br /> sound marketing analysis before embarking on agricultural endeavors. ~fhere is no risk <br /> to developing better systems of marketing our local agricultural products. It is a <br /> profound social injustice to force on our people the health, safety, and economic risks of <br /> irradiation merely to allow corporate farmers to prosper in the short run and enrich <br /> private irradiation companies. <br /> Ka Lahui has taken a position opposing food irradiation. Hawaiians in other groups and <br /> as individuals oppose irradiation and have grave concerns, including questioning why <br /> Hawaiian Home Lands should be considered such a facility, as was proposed during the <br /> irradiation debates in the Iate1980s. <br /> Generations of people all over the world are affected in some way by such deadly <br /> radioactive boondoggles. Every part of the process, from miners and residents living <br /> near uranium mines, to workers at the reactor creating the Cobalt-60, to the <br /> transportation and dockyard workers bringing it to the plant on the Big Island, and back <br /> again to a storage site for used Cobalt-60, exposes people to life-threatening risks. <br /> Spills of nuclear waste may seep into the groundwater or surrounding ocean and leave <br /> us all a legacy of cancer, suffering and death. Violence is not just perpetrated by fists, <br /> knives or guns. The people of Big Island and Hawaii have the right to be protected <br /> from the unwanted risks of the nuclear industry. Tell our politicians to say NO! to the <br /> unneeded and dangerous Big Island irradiation plant. <br /> The Hawaii County Green Party Leadership Committee: <br /> ! ~ ~ <br /> Tim Mann, Co-Chair <br /> Julie Jacobson, Co-Chair <br /> Ellen Takazawa, Treasurer <br /> Jay Scharf, Membership Chair <br /> Robert Ritter, Recorder <br /> <br />