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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> `I'inimaikalani Keali'ikua'aina <br /> <br /> Kahakalau <br /> P.O. Box 1764 <br /> Honoka'a, Hawai'I 968727 <br /> (808) 775-0867 <br /> iniluvzubu@yahoo.com <br /> Jan 18, <br /> 2008 <br /> <br /> Aloha Council Members <br /> <br /> <br /> My name is `I'ini Kahakalau and I am in 9th grade at Kanu o <br /> ka `Aina New Century Public School. I live in Kukuihaele <br /> <br /> above Waipi'o Valley and love to spend time in the valley <br /> helping my `ohana plant taro. I ask you to please support <br /> <br /> of Resolution 462-08, which urges the Hawai'i State <br /> Legislature to pass S.B. 958 S.D.1H.D.1., which imposes a <br /> <br /> ten year moratorium on developing, testing, propagating, <br /> cultivating, growing, and raising of genetically modified <br /> <br /> taro in the State of Hawai'i. <br /> <br /> <br /> I love to eat taro and poi and I am really worried that if <br /> we don't put a stop to taro testing and genetically <br /> <br /> engineering taro something horrible could go wrong and we <br /> will forever be unable to eat taro and poi as we know it. <br /> <br /> <br /> Please pass Resolution 462-08. We need to protect the taro <br /> so it can continue to take care of us light it has for <br /> <br /> countless generations. For me taro is `ohana and I would <br /> not want any one of may `ohana to be raped, which is what <br /> <br /> genetic engineering does, by forcing the cells to accept <br /> foreign materials. Genetic engineering is not natural and <br /> <br /> I like natural. <br />