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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0271.680 2012-2014 Page 1 of 1 Murashige, Laura From: Joanna [joanna.franz @gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:21 PM To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us Subject: GMO-Free Hawaii, Bill 79 Attachments: GMO-Free Hawaii, Bill 79 (Autosaved).docx Re: GMO-Free Hawaii, Bill 79 DEAR COUNCIL MEMBER AND REPRESENTATIVE Please, find my argumentation in the document attached. Mahalo, Joanna Weber M.A., M.Ed., B.A. Weber Wellness Fcg � n w ©) `Q -C r fw/ Comm.No., (21 I. 680 Ref.To: P1 i Ref. Dote Ju 6/19/2013 WEBER WELLNESS FITNESS AND WELLNESS CONSULTING Joanna Weber M•A., M•Ed•, B•S• A.C.E., I.S.S.A., & A.E.A. - Certified Golf Fitness Trainer Nutrition Physical Fitness Golf Performance Weight Management (808) 326-9190 joanna.franz @gmail.com To: Public Safety & Mass Transit Committee. Re: GMO-Ban, Bill 79 I am a voter and a resident on the Island of Hawaii, and I request your personal vote and engagement for a GMO-Free Hawaii, a GMO-Ban (Bill 79). There is a multitude of arguments very critical about GMOs and these arguments disqualify GMOs as any possible option. Here are some of my arguments: The entire world is threatened by genetic engineering. If biotech was the answer to our food supply needs, it would have to be 100% safe with no risks. There are too many dangers to be ignored. The industrialization of GMO-technology and its systems have created many problems for humanity and for all living creatures of the world. The idea of GMO-technology 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 in reality. There are too many risks involved, just by considering human health alone (e.g. studies in Europe regarding tumor development and more). 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 HAWAI'I 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 only yields we can have from these crops are the ones the biotech industry gets from its sales of its herbicides. The huge mono-crops destroy biodiversity. This is not an option, we don't have another planet to live on to experiment on. ET HALO F R 'You VOTE FOR L 1 Aod $, 808-326-9190