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From: Chelice Gilman, M. Ed. [chelicel@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 5:43 PM
To: counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us
Subject: Resolution Opposing HB1226 ZOOS APR 2 P~ 10 21
Hawaii County Council CcL.•. ~ ~
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Protect Our Environment
Claims that GMOs will potentially benefit Hawaii must be weighed against the potential
damage to our unique island environments and local agriculture. Chemical and biological
contamination from industrial GMO-agriculture could have irreversible, devastating effects
on Hawai'i. Unnatural gene mutations introduced through GMOs may harm native insects,
birds, fish, and soil health--with unknown longterm impacts on the unique ecosystems of
Hawaii. It is of great community concern that experimental GMO crops and the toxic
chemicals used to grow them now exist around Hawaii's local schools, watersheds, coral
reefs. Hawaii has had more open-field experimental GMO crops than anywhere else in the
world, without any formal independent monitoring.
Chelice Gilman, M. Ed.
P. O. Box 917
Pahala, HI 96777
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