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From: Carol Gonsalves [carolvgonsalves @gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 3:32 PM 2013 JUN 26 P11 3: 42
To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us
Subject: I oppose Bill#79
Date: June 26, 2013
To: Brenda Ford, Council Council Chair, Committee on Public Safety &
Mass Transit
Margaret Wille, Vice Chair, Committee on Public Safety & Mass Transit
Karen Eoff, Member
Greggor Ilagan, Member
Dru Mamo Kanuha, Member
Zendo Kern, Member
Dennis "Fresh" Onishi, Member
Valerie T. Poindexter, Member
J. Yoshimoto, Member
From: Carol Gonsalves (789 Hoolaulea St. ; Hilo, HI 96720)
Subject: Testimony against Amended Council Bill No. 79
I am opposed to the amended Bill No. 79 relating to genetically modified organisms. I want
you to kill this bill !
The original bill No. 79 was a bad bill, and Wille just can❑t go willy nilly and shove in
new ideas that are just as bad as the original ones. In the first bill she required
farmers to grow Rainbow papayas in high security BL3 glasshouses. This is a containment
research type of facility which is never used by the agriculture industry. Can you imagine
all of the papaya being grown under glass? It certainly would be unique. But what folly!
Under her "improved" bill papayas can actually be grown outdoors; but this would only be
allowed "provided that any cultivation or propagation locations have a minimum seven
hundred-fifty foot buffer to any adjacent private property. . . . " Again, wiley Willie picks
a random solution with no logical basis. Why? Because GMO❑s, she thinks, are a health
hazard.
EVERYONE in Hawai' i needs to listen up because if you, the County Council, decide to
abolish our freedom of choice on what to plant and where to plant, the division you cause
will be catastrophic! Law abiding citizens today will be considered criminals if they
plant a Rainbow papaya in their yard and their disgruntled neighbor reports it to "Big
Sister." The problem is compounded for farmers.
There is much more that I resent in this amended bill, and as I think of these things, it
just makes me angry! Bill 79 cannot be amended further to make it right. It must be
killed.
Yours truly,
Carol Gonsalves
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