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iradiation to kill medflies, which are the problem.
Tears avo Hawaii and California tried iradiatiog male med-
flies in an attempt to control and ultimatly iradicate med-
flies, in theory it or something similiar should hayed worked.
pow we're tal::ing about iradiating not the problem but the
food in which the :nedfly has laved it's eggs, but we're only
trying to kill the eggs, These dead eggs well be shipped
some where else ;seeping some where else safe from medflies-
this is very considerate of us!!!. But how can we say we've
helped Eawaii's farmers, ^1he're still going to throw away
-aillions of dollars worth of stung produce that could be
sold if it hadn't been stun„ in the first place.
Iradiatin~ of produce does not keep produce from being stung.
Building an iradiation plant seems to me t-:at we're ieciorn~
the problem. I would like to propose an idea Hawaii has a
unique si~uaticn in being the High-iech state of the art
place in the pacific. Al ono with six billion.. human :Hinds
on ?arth, with all this I think. we can find a way to control
or ::ill one little buo, Don't you?.
Farmer-Bill ,1cClellan
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Deu[, Dare MAY 1 5 1997