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From: Michael Gibson [michaelgibson111 @gmail.com] 2013 JUL - I
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 9:53 AM r o
To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us
Subject: testimony in favor of Bill 79
Aloha Members of the Council .,.
Thank you for the opportunity to give testimony in favor of Bill 79 regarding the prohibition of further
GMO products on Hawai'i Island.
I am greatly dismayed that this matter of GMOs should ever have required the persistent and now
widespread community protest that is taking place. Had the technology been introduced in an honest,
sound, systematic, transparent, labeled, comprehensive and democratic manner - without heavy-handed
tactics, revolving doors between government and industry and slipshod approval and regulation of the
technology - I think the industry would not be meeting with such suspicion, paranoia and animosity.
In almost fifty years of avidly following news and politics, I don't recall such betrayal of the public trust
as is evident in the GMO industry/government/university complex, nor do I think there should be any
hesitation in placing an immediate moratorium on the technology on Hawai'i Island. Further, I think our
local County officials owe it to the public to see that no further expansion of GMO products be
permitted without abiding strictly to the Precautionary Principle and to take whatever time it takes to get
this right.
Mahalo nui loa,
Michael Gibson
PO Box 1308
Honoka'a, HI 96727
michaelgibsonl 11(cr,gmail.com
808 640-2506
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