2024_06_18 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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June 18, 2024 - GMAC Minutes KL: So, education, research, putting up with strategies to mitigate the damage and implement it. LT: Thank you for the answer to that question. KL: Yeah. SW: So, I’ll just let you know that you had taken your speakers off of mute, which is why the reverb and if you want to continue sharing your presentation you can. KL: OK. Great. So now I’m sharing them. OK. Let’s move on. \[Technical difficulties\] KL: OK. It’s not a poison. It doesn’t sterilize. There are no hormones and no endocrine disruptors. It really is just those 5 things and then people go, oh, how can that be? How can that be? We’ve known for a long time that cotton seed oil has a component called gossypol. And gossypol comes in two different forms: bound and unbound. And it can – the unbound gossypol is the thing that affects the reproductive cycle. You can bind gossypol by heating. So, I know there are a lot of cattle people in Hawaii county and so I thought I’d throw these in my brother’s former was a cattleman here for most of his life, and cotton seed meal is great for cattle and deer, it’s also good for rose bushes, so, here’s cotton seed meal cubes specifically made for cattle. It’s inexpensive and it’s good protein. So, cotton seed meal itself has a certain amount of gossypol in it but there’s a reason the cotton seed is the active ingredient, as Dr. Loper said – he’s a biochemist by training – and his entire career except for a short stint at NASA was developing seeds for the cow industry – specifically the dairy industry. He worked with David Wang in Waianae – anybody knows David Wang – for twelve years he was the consultant. OK, and then there’s some interesting accusations about what it’s classified as – so there was somebody – Mr. Kettle, HogStop spent a lot of money having an official response made to him so it’s a little disappointing to see him, warm up his arguments, anyway, so here we go. So, this is the USEPA’s minimum risk pesticide page and what a minimum risk pesticide is, is something that where the ingredients – they have different categories of them like some are non-food use and some are food-use. They have been vetted – they’ve already gone through the whole \[unclear\] of whatever and so they’ve been classified and if your product is only using things that have already been approved then that is a way of getting your approval, so, this is the way that works, and the blue line is cotton seed oil. OK. This, I don’t know how well know Pig Brig is but the Hawaiian Shores community association with their – through the Malama Puna, they purchased a Pig Brig and to my knowledge they haven’t used it, but it is, it is by all counts an excellent tool – the Aphis guys, USDA Aphis - they’re using them in Hawaii, and they love ‘em. One of the interesting things at that Puna meeting was that one of their guys – Amadeo – I forget the last name – they came up with this brilliant thing – it’s a trailer that has a cage on it and you can now hook up the Pig Brig to this trailer and get the animals out alive so there doesn’t have to be this mass slaughter and so that’s an interesting Hawaii innovation – we do that, OK. So, one of the things that Kaulike Project has been looking at is where is something working – where in the world is something working and, one of the things that’s working is community engagement and research. And they’re doing that in Australia, and I have just a little – well… LT: Just move forward… 14