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Murashige, Laura COUNTY CLERK
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From: Ronald Gordon [rgordon @hawaii.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 6:46 PM 201) NAY 13 AN 9-16
To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us
Subject: GMO Testing on the Big Island
Dear Hawaii County Council,
Please make it impossible for GMO crops to be developed and tested on our Big Island. Many of
our Hawaii Island residents are highly skeptical of the mega-corporations who are profiting from
the selling of genetically modified foods, and usually without the public knowing that they are in
fact consuming genetically modified foods. Let us not here, on our Big Island. be a party to the
dangers of drift and contamination and the fostering and furthering of a domestic and
international food supply that is laboratory-engineered instead of natural and real.
Let us be far-thinking here in our county. and not be eager to jump on the transnational
corporation bandwagon just because it would mean some added dollars would trickle through
our economy. In our county we value QUALITY of life, and AUTI IENTICITY of food
production and human relations. Keep the GMO transnationals out. let them do their
experimentation elsewhere, but do not allow this to be foisted upon our local population. We
should be supporting our own local farmers and food growers. and organic and non-pesticide
grown food supplies, and building a sustainable agricultural model for the state and nation to
observe and learn from, not falling in line behind the laboratory-concocted items that are being
passed off as food today. Let's go HEALTHY, let's go local, let's go natural, let's not sell out for
money.
Ronald D. Gordon, Ph.D.
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Ref. Date MAY 14 2013
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5/13/2013