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June 18, 2024 - GMAC Minutes <br />that would automatically kick them out of the 25 B exemption and I really, I hope that maybe <br />the representative can answer some of the questions that I have about it as well but my big <br />question is – is it actually available for sale in Hawaii and how much is it to buy a bag of it? And <br />then, if anybody in there knows how many wild pigs are estimated to be in Hawaii because it’s <br />not only a safety issue – but I think also is it fiscally responsible to try to deal with the problem <br />this way? Assuming 100-pound pig eats about 3% of its body weight a day and assuming once <br />it’s trained to one of these HogStop feeders it gets about ½ of its food from there a day – it <br />would cost the state about – it would, either about 550 pounds of food a year from the feeder <br />or 11 bags of HogStop. It’s $30.00 a bag which is what corn costs roughly – that’s $330 dollars a <br />year or about $2,800 dollars per – for an 8 ½ year time that that pig would be in a reproductive <br />age and that’s for a 100-pound pig. So, if – online I found about estimates of 400,000 pigs in <br />Hawaii – if you were to try to keep all of those sterile it would end up costing us about 1.1 <br />billion dollars to do this or $132,000,000 million dollars a year for 8 ½ years. It’s not fiscally <br />responsible or likely that this product would even be successful at what its aim is to do and, as <br />far as safety stuff, has anybody at HogStop or any independent person cut open a pig that’s <br />been fed HogStop and for gossypol I don’t – they haven’t shown us any tests that have done it <br />and I’m not aware of any that have done it but the National Institute of Health has tests that <br />have been published about them testing rats that have been fed gossypol and the highest <br />concentrations were in the organs, the blood and then the meat. And the lowest <br />concentrations were in the testes. So that means for – in order for the gossypol to get to the <br />testes where it would be effective at keeping the pigs as a contraceptive – it would have to be <br />in the meat already so there’s a definite safety risk of eating gossypol to humans and this <br />product has not been fully tested for safety as far as anything that I’ve been able to find or any <br />studies that I’ve been able to see, so… I just think this is a really bad product to be trying to <br />bring into Hawaii and maybe if the distributor is unable to recognize that maybe it’s time for <br />the state to make a law to keep it out of here. That’s all I have to say. <br /> <br />LT: Thank you, sir, for your testimony. <br /> <br />RD: One question to Kyle… Can we have his last name. <br /> <br />KK: Yeah, Kettle. <br /> <br />RD: Thank you. <br /> <br />SW: And you have another one. <br /> <br />LT: Moving forward we have one more from the public. Clayton Kubo, on agenda 5B – HogStop. <br /> <br />CK: Clayton Kubo. No, we had a meeting about this, estimated about 2 years ago and do you guys <br />understand what is secondary poisoning? You know, I really hope that you guys gonna realize <br />that even in vegetables, yeah, you poison vegetables – the poison gonna lead to the human – <br />gonna lead to the environment. So, in a way, we all should start realizing that if this thing is <br />gonna affect the pig – it is definitely gonna affect the human, and the land. Mahalo Nui, Aloha. <br /> <br />LT: Mahalo. <br /> <br />SW: Chair, that’s all the testifiers online. <br />5 <br /> <br />