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COUNTY CLERK
Murashige, Laura COUNTY Pr. HAWAII
From: Sunny Kharbanda [ksunny @gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 9:56 AM 2013 JUN 28 08
To: Poindexter, Valerie; Yoshimoto, J; Onishi, Dennis; gilalan @co.hawaii.hi.us; Kern, Zendo; Kanuha, Dru; Eoff,
Karen
Subject: Please Ban GMO! "bill 79*
Dear Council members of Hawaii County,
Please vote in favor of bill 79. It's a big step in the right direction, and it signifies Hawaii county's
commitment to keeping the soil, air and water Pono.
Recently, the scientific journal "Entropy" published a paper linking glyphosate, the active ingredient in
Monsanto's Roundup, to autism, several chronic digestive disorders, cardiovascular disease,
depression, cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinsons, MS, ALS, and more. And that's just the effect on human
bodies.
What about the land?
Talk to someone on Moloka'i or Kaua'i about the desecration of their precious land. These
"experimental seeds" do NOT regenerate causing farmers to have to buy seed every year!
270,000 FARMERS IN INDIA (my birth country) HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE due to Monsanto's
infiltration.
The entire world is threatened by genetic engineering.
PERU recently became a GMO FREE Country - please vote to create a GMO FREE HAWAII
COUNTY!
The solutions lie in our ability to think about the connections between the earth's capacity to endure
our activities and our way of understanding and respecting that connection.
The crops are being sprayed with chemicals that are harmful and deadly, the technology itself is not
reliable (what if something in nature triggered them to "self destruct"?) and many scientists around the
world agree that the dangers are too numerous for this to be in our system of raising food.
The idea is enticing, making work easier for farmers, putting traits from one animal or food to another
to increase the plant's nutrition. But this is not the case. I have worked on organic farms, and
personally experienced the huge difference in taste and nutrition between organic fruit/vegetables and
those raised by industrial farms. There's no question - the organic produce is superior by far in these
respects.
The only yields we can have from these crops are the ones the biotech industry gets from its sales of
its herbicides. The huge monocrops destroy biodiversity. The runoff from these fields poisons our
water. I have seen both these things happen on my island of O'ahu. Please keep Hawai'i island GMO-
free. This is not an option, we don't have another planet to live and experiment on.
Respectfully,
Hardeep "Sunny" Kharbanda
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