HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0271.417 2012-2014 J Yoshimoto
From: Owen Kitahara <birdie0111 @yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 10:59 PM
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Subject: Please Ban All GMO s
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RE: Ban GMO Please! bill 79 1 —I=
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" The entire world is threatened by genetic engineering. '1c)
If biotech was the answer to our food supply needs, it would be 100 safe with no risks. '-rrt
There are too many dangers to be ignored.
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The industrialization of these systems have created many problems for humanity and for all living creatures of the world.
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 HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE due to Monsanto's infiltration.
PERU recently became a GMO FREE Country-we will be the First 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.
I do not believe that genetic engineering was developed for any other reason than the chemical companies to sell their
poisons and products.
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
plants nutrition. But this is not the case.
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. This is not an option, we don't have another planet to live on to experiment on.
Sincerely,
Owen Kitahara
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