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Murashige, Laura COUNTY CLERK
COUNTY OF HAWAII
From: Stephanie Whalen [swhalen @hare-hspa.com] NAT 13 AN 14
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 4:23 PM
To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us
Subject: Oppose Bill 79
Here is what one of the well-known leaders, Mark Lynas, of the anti-GMO movement is quoted saying this
past January at the Oxford Farming Conference:
"I want to start with some apologies. For the record, here and upfront, I apologise for having spent
several years ripping up GM crops. I am also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement
back in the mid 1990s, and that I thereby assisted in demonising an important technological
option which can be used to benefit the environment.
As an environmentalist, and someone who believes that everyone in this world has a right to a
healthy and nutritious diet of their choosing, I could not have chosen a more counter-productive
path. I now regret it completely."
If you want to read his entire NEW REVERSED position go to:
http://www.marklvnas.org/20I 3/01/lecture-to-oxford-farming-conference-3 january-2013/
This change of position occurred because I quote again:
"I discovered science, and in the process I hope I became a better environmentalist."
Vote NO on Bill 79. You are not helping agriculture if you vote, yes. Do your own homework like Mark. It
is not easy; obviously it is easier to generate fear as is the common mode of operation for the activists
these days what ever subject they are attacking.
Aloha
thanks
Aloha
Stevie
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