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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0271.715 2012-2014 • Page 1 of 12 e, Laura COUNTY(CLERK Murashige, CC!4 f. `rill From: nomi @babesagainstbiotech.org Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 5:14 PM 2013 Sit. --5 8: S2 To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us Subject: Babes Against Biotech Urgent Bill 79 Evidential Bullet Points & Invitation Attachments: Bullet Points Bill 79.docx Aloha, Some of the CM's email addresses are over full and cannot accept this crucial information, please assure this reaches all of the Council. Mahalo, Nomi Aloha Chair Councilmembers, I will be here in Kailua-Kona until this Friday evening and I would like to meet with you before I go if you would like to meet with me. I have attached a bullet point list of the most crucial pieces of evidence regarding this legislation which is copied below my signature for your convenience. Please, please read it. Incidentally, as I am currently listening to Dr. Ashley Stokes, pro-GMO scientists coming out of UH, particularly CTAHR (College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources) should not be trusted as Monsanto has directly gifted CTAHR over $500,000 and their integrity has been compromised. GMO legislation in Hawaii in particular has become my area of expertise and I sincerely would like at least 15-20 minutes with each of you before Friday at 5PM. I have lunch and dinner appointments available as well and will make myself available to you. At the first march on Monsanto's headquarters June 28, 2012 we had 150 participants. In the last six months, more than 11,500 Hawaii residents have literally marched the streets to stop GMO agriculture in Hawaii. That is a 7,566% increase in active advocates who were available on the days of anti-GMO marches in the last six months in Hawaii alone. If we continue at this rate of growth, by this time next year the movement in Hawaii may be as large as 870,090 in a population of 1.392 million. I live in Honolulu, because the Capitol and the Honolulu City Council require constant attention and GMO lobbyists are stalking the halls and sponsoring golf days 5 days a week at the absolute least. I am the former Executive Secretary for the Waianae Coast City Council District I under Tom Berg, who is no longer in office. I fought for the HSAC package including labeling and abolishing the PLDC, my boss and I fought for the package you all agreed on. The two pertinent measures which most concerned our citizens across the state were, as I am sure you know, removed without a vote or a hearing the day before Thanksgiving at 4:30PM. We did everything we could, I am sorry we could not yank the Honolulu City Council into a pono reality of consensus. They refused to hear the issue again until Tom was already out of office, knowing he would introduce a floor draft AGAIN to re-insert the items and then held a Special Meeting which we will never know whether or not was properly sunshined. None of us, NONE Comm. tr�to cal • 71C Ref. To: rt 14TG 7/5/2013 Ref. Date JUL 0 2 2013 Page 2 of 12 of the citizens concerned about this issue aside from GMO lobbyists and corporate employees attended the meeting because not a single person was made aware and we can find no record of public notice regarding the meeting. I want to say that after dealing with the Honolulu City Council in depth over the last year, where more than $40,000 of GMO related money rests in the campaign funds, I am so blessed to be here and testify before you. The Hawaii County Council is absolutely heavenly in comparison to the blatant corruption of my own City Council. The Honolulu City Council is so primarily useless and detrimental that we are discussing the potential recall of our Chairman with Aikea who helped beat the PLDC, Local 5 (largest hotel workers' union in Hawaii) and Defend Oahu Coalition. Hawaii, the state, is counting on you to malama Hawaii island in a way that is impossible on most outer islands. Learn from our governments' mistakes, we are suffering greatly on Oahu, Molokai and Kauai. You have a golden opportunity and I would like to discuss with you the legislation we need to pursue in regard and addition to Bill 79. The bill is not perfect, but it is the peoples' bill and we are committed to working on the progress and success of this bill to create a harmonious and effective protection for Hawaii island regarding GMOs. This is the first step of many and I urge you to continue this conversation by passing this bill. I support third party risk assessment. For the record, in every single one of the several dozen I have attended in Hawaii in the last year, the testifiers stance on a measure is always cited upon announcement and I hope this Council will develop a policy in favor of stating their position. This is however the second time a GMO lobbyist (Takemoto yesterday, Alicia Maluafiti on HB 174) has accidentally stated their support for an anti-GMO measure. I have not noticed this mistake with citizens opposing GMOs, perhaps the GMO industry is not as clear themselves if our lives are in the hands of their science at this time and they cannot clearly indicate their stance on pertinent measures. I prefer to think they are Freudian slips. Please contact me at your earliest convenience if you are willing to make time to sit with for a short period of time before I leave. If you are unavailable, I am available via Skype, Facetime and telephone. Mahalo and malama pono, may you be richly blessed and rewarded for your pono efforts. Aloha, Nomi Carmona President Babes Against Biotech 808.436.7006 nomi @babesagainstbiotech.org Insta: @babesagainstbiotech Tweet: @babesagainstgmo FB.com/babesagainstbiotech babesagainstbiotech.org OMGgmoW F.org -You know natural and GMO cannot CO-EXIST. The concept touted by opposing minority of this bill is highly ignorant. The chemicals and genetic changes do travel and contaminate the GENES OF ORGANIC AND CONVENTIONAL PLANTS FOREVER. THERE IS NO 7/5/2013 Page 3 of 12 RECALL. This is not coexistence when the existence of GMOs affects the DNA of original plants that have sustained us for 1000s of years. That is not co-existence, that is hostile genetic takeover. If I am your neighbor, and I have no lymph nodes, and I enter your home and forcibly remove your lymph nodes so we are the same, am I helping you? The definition of coexist: Exist at the same time or in the same place. If I'm organic, I can exist and it doesn't hurt you. If you are GMO and you exist, you are hurting me, you take away my genetic heritage and destroy the environment in which I live, my natural bee related pollination, my genes and my health. You are scientifically taking away from my ability to exist. This is parasitic, the very definition of an invasive species. -I contend that rather than being divisive, I have never seen so many Hawaii residents united. When was the last time, 11,500 people in Hawaii marched for any cause? Hawaii island has a smaller movement, because you are not already experiencing what we are experiencing on Oahu, Molokai and Kauai. On Oahu, 2,500 residents marched down Kalakua Avenue in Waikiki on May 25th, in solidarity with more than 2 million people worldwide to stop GMOs. We have more advocates in just one march on one island than this entire industry employs in the State. That day about 4k statewide participated. -At the first march on Monsanto's headquarters June 28, 2012 we had 150 participants. In the last six months, more than 11,500 Hawaii residents have literally marched the streets to stop GMO agriculture in Hawaii. That is a 7,566% increase in active advocates who were available on the days of anti-GMO marches in the last six months in Hawaii alone. If we continue at this rate of growth in one year, the movement in Hawaii may be as large as 870,090 in a population of 1.392 million. -The only people dividing themselves out are GMO papaya farmers and ranchers, who appear to have been misled (likely by GMO industry contacts) to believe that Bill 79 would stop them from continuing the damages they have already enacted. The pro-GMO farmers and ranchers fail to understand co-existence with GMOs is impossible or accept the fact that as the bill stands, they are exempt from prohibition of current practices. The only co-existence I can see is if GMOs are contained to warehouses and secured laboratories only and even still, we risk unintentional, undesired contamination. The organic community has offered to take in the GMO papaya farmers and help them transform their agricultural practices. Incidentally, when GMOs exist we have no choice. - As per Executive Order 13112 an "invasive species" is defined as a species that is: 1) non-native (or alien) to the ecosystem under consideration and 2) whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health. http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.qov/whatis.shtml -What is more important to you, are you willing to willfully expose 186,000 people to genetic and chemical experimentation and agriculture banned in most of the modern world to save a few hundred or a thousand jobs? -This bill does not at this time affect GMO papaya farmers. I support this bill in its original form. As it stands I move to strike all amendments unique from the original draft and while I would like Hawaii to be GMO free at this time, if I were a politician I would probably allow existing GMO papaya at this time and address it specifically in separate legislation, ranchers will have time to plant non-GMO by the time this goes into effect. You do not have to grow GMO alfalfa or feed, you have the freedom at this time to grow non-GMO. This bill does not stop ranchers from purchasing and using GM feed, nor does it prohibit any GMOs existing prior. I am concerned about the medical and agricultural research facilities will only allow 7/5/2013 Page 4 of 12 GMO companies to enter under a different guise uninterrupted. I move to strike all amendments unique form the original draft and at this time allow GM papaya and prior existing crops for this temporary situation. This bill runs for 3-5 years, this is the first step. Secure what you have now and address the existing GMOs in future legislation. The farmers and the cowmen should be friends. -I believe if you are wise, you will seize this remarkable opportunity to keep pure and pristine the environment of Hawaii island. The land will become more valuable, more rich in soil than ever before and what is more attractive to true farmers working toward sustainability? GMO contaminated, chemical saturated agricultural land or clean, pristine, organic soil preserved by the distance of water? If you want to maintain and increase the precious condition of this island with 13 climate zones which can literally grow any good crops for all the islands. -I live on Oahu where the majority of GMO companies in Hawaii are headquartered. I have been poisoned three times by pesticides from protesting at the gates of Monsanto and Syngenta in Kunia. These fields are across the street from residences. At 5 minutes standing at their property boundary, even with a breathing mask, you feel the burning, the stinging on your skin from the chemical dust, your nose and your eyes start running. When Monsanto began spraying pesticides with 150 protesters at their gate, the pesticides literally changed my voice, it was the scariest physical reaction I have ever had to anything. I sounded as if I had hormone therapy, my lymph nodes were as large as ping pong balls. -By the way, the atrazine found in Waimea Middle Schools' drinking water changes the sex of frogs. The urine of a male worker spraying atrazine has 24,000 the amount of atrazine it takes to chemically castrate a frog. Dr. Tyrone Hayes: "If you are a male exposed to Atrazine, your testosterone goes away, so you're demasculinized, or chemically castrated," he said. "And you're also feminized because you're making estrogen, which you should not be doing as a male." Women are not usually allowed to spray, because they start hemorrhaging almost immediately. http://thegardenisland.com/news/local/experts-atrazine-a-real-threat-to-westside- residents/article bb8ba5bc-855b-1 1 e2-85c9-001a4bcf887a.html -Meet Michael R. Taylor, J.D., Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine, former attorney, top lobbyist and VICE PRESIDENT OF MONSANTO is now in charge of the Food regulation of the FDA. -Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice, who refused to recuse himself from a crucial GMO case and ruled in favor of Monsanto, was a MONSANTO ATTORNEY. -Google GMO executives or visit http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/news.cfm and select Monsanto's government ties. This is the TIP of the iceberg. Toby Moffett Monsanto US Congessman D-CT Consultant Dennis Monsanto US Senator D-AZ DeConcini Legal Counsel Margaret Chemical Lab Dep. Dir. FDA, Bush Sr, Miller Supervisor HFS Clinton Marcia Hale Director, Int'l White House Clinton Govt. Affairs Senior Staff 7/5/2013 Page 5 of 12 Mickey Board Member Sec. of Commerce Clinton Kantor Virginia VP, Public Policy WH-Appt to CSA, Clinton Weldon Gores SDR Josh King Director, Int'l White House Clinton g Govt. Affairs Communications David Beler VP, Gov't & Public Gore's Chief Dom. Clinton Affairs Polcy Advisor Carol Tucker-Monsanto Lobbyist WH-Appointed Clinton Foreman Consumer Adv Linda Fisher VP, Gov't & Public Deputy Admin Clinton, Affairs EPA Bush Manager, New Clinton, Lidia Watrud Technologies USDA, EPA Bush, Obama Michael VP, Public Policy Dep. Commis. Obama Taylor FDA Hilary Rose Law Firm, US Senator, D-NY Clinton Monsanto Counsel Secretary of State Obama Roger Beach Director, Monsanto Director USDA Obama g Beachy Center NIFA Islam Siddiqui Monsanto Lobbyist Trade eg Bator -American Academy of Environmental Medicine strongly advises: "Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community, and the public to avoid GM foods when possible and provide educational materials concerning GM foods and health risks. Physicians to consider the possible role of GM foods in the disease processes of the patients they treat and to document any changes in patient health when changing from GM food to non- GM food. Our members, the medical community, and the independent scientific community to gather case studies potentially related to GM food consumption and health effects, begin epidemiological research to investigate the role of GM foods on human health, and conduct safe methods of determining the effect of GM foods on human health. For a moratorium on GM food, implementation of immediate long term independent safety testing, and labeling of GM foods, which is necessary for the health and safety of consumers." http://www.aaemonline.org/gmopost.html -GMO ground zero responsibility, Hawaii is the site of more than 5,000 GMO open air field tests, more than anywhere else in the world. This is their research and seed industry headquarters worldwide. We are literally creating major problems with the entire planets' food supply, shipping out seeds without even paying GE taxes, Vladimir Putin has warned war is coming to the United States if we don't cease this foolish GMO abuse including the use of neonicotinoid pesticides linked to Colony Collapse Disorder which are killing our bees worldwide. http://www.eutimes.net/2013/05/russia-warns-obama-global-war-over-bee- 7/5/2013 Page 6 of 12 apocalypse-coming-soon/ -GE tax exemptions, agricultural research tax exemptions, enterprize zone tax exemptions and 70% of US soy was subsidized by the Federal Government's crop insurance. If 94% of US soy is GMO and 70% of the soy failed and required crop insurance subsidization, what does that tell you? http://farm.ewg.org/ -Substantial equivalence vs. patent rights; Substantial equivalence is the argument made by the GMO industry to insist that GMO crops are no different from conventional crops and thereby should not be subjected to additional regulation. How is this possible when GM crops are patented? So to the patent office, the gene is a unique invention that deserves to be patented and owned, but to the public, it's "substantially equivalent" and we should not be bothered by the difference in standards and accountability. -Food and Drug Cosmetic Act states if harm to animals or humans shown in studies, moratorium must be placed. We already have animal studies showing harm. We are the human studies against our will. -Precautionary Principle is pertinent. There is no recall of GMO releases. -Center for Food Safety reports, Monsanto v. US Farmers http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/reports/1401/monsanto-vs-us-farmers -Seed Giants v. Farmers: http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/reports/1770/seed-giants-vs-us- farmers - 49% of US farms are now covered in glyphosate resistant weeds, 2.4 million acres glyphosate resistant farm land in US. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup. In Roundup Ready soy territory in Argentina, infants are being born with tumors larger than their heads. -15 fold increase in glyphosate usage on soy, corn and Cotton from 1994 to 2005 driven by Roundup Ready crops -GMO companies would like you to believe they are on the side of the farmers, why then are they repeatedly suing for patent infringement when undesired GMO contamination occurs? "The largest recorded judgment made thus far in favor of Monsanto as a result of a farmer lawsuit is $3,052,800.00. Total recorded judgments granted to Monsanto for lawsuits amount to $15,253,602.82. Farmers have paid a mean of$412,259.54 for cases with recorded judgments." -Two of thirty GMO babies surviving have the DNA of three parents, two women and one man. Gene pool contamination, thanks a lot. Now if the GMO babies grow up, (of which photos are nowhere to be found) and start mating in triple DNA with once again, no disclosure, we have no idea what is going to happen. Do you really want to allow agricultural and medical GMO research facilities here?http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donna-gates/genetically-engineered- babies h 1652842.htm1 -Cows engineered to produce human breast milk, great. http://www.huffmgtonpost.com/2011/06/08/human-milk-cow-china n 873354.html -Even the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture admits that no GM crop on the market has been modified to increase yield. -Over 5,000 open air GMOs released in Hawaiian islands, I stress minimal Big Island 7/5/2013 Page 7 of 12 contamination, defend Hawaii NOW, not when you are at the state of Oahu, Molokai and Kauai. Please defend Hawaii island now, you are almost the last island left which has not been nearly destroyed and contaminated by GMOs. -This is an arrogant technology, arrogant lobbyists, arrogant corporations, ignorant supporters of open air GMOs, sadly. YOU MUST MAINTAIN THE GMO COMPANIES' PERMISSION TO STUDY THEIR PRODUCTS. Permission is denied regularly, that is why we have less research particularly in the US, where Monsanto has written and paid for its' own Congressional protection act. The technology is so imprecise, that in order to even know whether or not the new genetic insertion has successfully implanted in the other species, they have to attach antibiotic markers in order to test for the presence of antibiotics and therefore determine whether or not the transmission was successful. As antibiotic resistance rises in our communities, myself being one of many people who has "become" allergic to antibiotics, we need to reduce and eliminate our consumption of food-based, genetically engineered antibiotics. -I detected $391,000 of GMO money in the Hawaii State, House, Senate and Honolulu City Council as of August 2012. If you include the wives and daughter of the top two GMO lobbyists, the figures nearly double, and these women are not registered. This is only what's on the books. -More than 90% of Hawaii's food is imported, this is foolish. You have 13 climate zones here. You can grow enough food for the state. You can have the best farming land in the world if you get the GMOs out NOW. Do not let further contamination occur. -Sherbrooke Gynecology Hospital found GMO related Bt pesticide toxin in the blood of 94% of pregnant moms, 86% of umbilical blood http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21338670 -Longest animal study of GMO consumption regarding Roundup Ready GMO corn found reproductive failure and extremely high rates of female breast cancer, the majority of tumors were found in the breasts of female rats and the effect of compounded glyphosate in the Roundup related production was found to increase these events. http://www.ijbs.com/v05p0706.htm -GMO soy fed hamsters reproductive failure, testicles turned blue, and hair grew from the gums and teeth of the hamsters. By the third generation, 55% of the entire hamster group were dead as pups. "The Russian National Academy of Sciences, reported that more than half the babies from mother rats fed GM soy died within three weeks. This was also five times higher than the 10% death rate of the non-GMO soy group. The babies in the GM group were also smaller (see photo) and could not reproduce." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/genetically- modified-soy b 544575.html -Just 60 GMO fish released into a population of 60,000 can extinct the ENTIRE WILD POPULATION IN JUST 40 GENERATIONS. http://www.oceanconservancy.org/our- work/aquacul ture/aquaculture-genetically.html -They are counting on us being too stupid to stop them. -The FDA approves GMOs with 90 day conducted by the companies themselves. -Hawaii island is the lead Queen bee exporter in the world. Our bees are dying. The worlds' bees are dying, linked to GMO related and pesticide coated neonicotinoid seeds. 7/5/2013 Page 8 of 12 -2,4-D, component of Agent Orange, is now being sprayed HERE on US because Roundup is no longer working, all the bugs and weeds have developed resistance. This is what we are experiencing on Oahu, Molokai and Kauai. WE ARE BEING SPRAYED WITH AGENT ORANGE. -WORLD FOOD PRIZE SPONSORED BY MONSANTO PAID FOR BY MONSANTO -90% of GMOs are produced in only 5 idiotic countries. -If you take the Monsanto lobbyist Alan Takemoto's offer to visit Monsanto Hawaii HQ please bring your gas mask. -Organic land MUCH MORE VALUABLE THAN GMO LAND FOR SURE. -This is FOOLS GOLD. Learn from India, where every 30 minutes a GMO farmer commits suicide. The GMO companies take advantage of uneducated farmers and sell them on the technology, failing to explain that they need to re-purchase seeds each year, associated chemicals and pesticides/insecticides/herbicides. Majorly GMO Bt cotton growers, farmers and also not told Bt cotton takes at least double the water of India's native cotton. When their farms are destroyed, their fields cannot produce, they do not have money to pay (primarily Monsanto) and in India, upon suicide, the family is forgiven of any debt held by the dead. Monsanto sends lobbyists throughout India to fight for the right to take whatever remaining assets the impoverished family has once the male spouse of the home has committed suicide. As you have heard, the majority are killing themselves by drinking Roundup. Do we want this kind devastation to someday hit our papaya farmers or will you help them transition now? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zester-daily/bitter-seeds-film b 1902221.html -Do you think the non-English speaking farmers of GMOs on this island know there was no ringspot virus problem in Hawaii since the 1970s until Dennis Gonsalves' GMO PRSV resistant papaya team started field testing in Puna? 1991, invented and Puna field trials begin. Application for approval for commercialization occurs. 1992, PRSV mysteriously appears in Puna when no ringspot problem EXISTED IN HAWAII since the 1970s. http://hawaiitribune- herald.com/sections/news/local-news/papaya-gmo-success-story.html -A new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) outlines the harmful effects of pesticides on children and makes recommendations on how to reduce exposure. The policy statement, "Pesticide Exposure in Children," and an accompanying technical report are published in the December 2012 issue of Pediatrics (released online Nov. 26). Prenatal and early childhood exposure to pesticides is associated with pediatric cancers, decreased cognitive function and behavioral problems. According to the AAP, recognizing and reducing children's exposure to pesticides will require improved medical training, public health tracking, and regulatory approaches. The AAP recommends pediatricians become familiar with the effects of acute and chronic exposures to pesticides; learn what resources are available for both treatment of acute poisoning and addressing lower dose chronic exposures in children; and understand pesticide labeling. Pediatricians should ask parents about pesticide use around the home and yard, offer guidance about safe storage, and recommend parents choose lowest-harm approaches when considering pest control. Pediatricians should also work with schools and government agencies to advocate for the least toxic methods of pest control, and to inform communities when pesticides are being used in the area. The policy statement also makes a number of recommendations for government, including specific recommendations related to marketing, labeling, use and safety of pesticides to minimize children's exposure. http://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/AAP-Makes-Recommendations- 7/5/2013 Page 9 of 12 to-Reduce-Children%27s-Exposure-to-Pesticides.aspx?nfstatus=401&nftoken=00000000-0000- 0000-0000-000000000000&nfstatusdescription=ERROR%3a+No+local+token -Abhorred to discover Dennis Gonsalves claim that we can still sell organic papaya if it's been contaminated because only the seeds will be GMO. Great so it can still be sold as organic even though the seeds are GMO. This is one of many reasons to ban GMO papaya, if not today, very soon. - A significant risk of astrocytoma was associated with exposures to herbicides from residential use (OR= 1.9; 95% CI, 1.2-3.0). Combining parental exposures to herbicides from both residential and occupational sources, the elevated risk remained significant (OR= 1.8; 95% CI, 1.1-3.1) - Significant increase in childhood cancer risk with parent pesticide related occupational exposure - Childhood brain cancer increase due to parental occupational pesticide exposure: Elevated risks of astrocytoma were found for paternal exposure (ever vs. never) to all four classes of pesticides http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/157/11/989.short - Elevated risk of pediatric Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma with parental occupational exposure, a SIGNIFICANT ASSOCIATION WAS FOUND. The study was performed by the following principal Children's Cancer Group participants (with their National Cancer Institute grants in parentheses) W. Archie Bleyer, M.D., Anita Khayat, Ph.D., Harland Sather, Ph.D., Mark Krailo, Ph.D., Jonathan Buckley, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., Daniel Stram, Ph.D., and Richard Sposto, Ph.D., Group Operations Center, Arcadia, CA (CA 13539); Raymond Hutchinson, M.D., University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI (CA 02971); Katherine Matthay, M.D., University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA (CA 17829); Diane Puccetti, M.D., University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, WI (CA 05436); J. Russell Geyer, M.D., Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Seattle, WA (CA 10382); Eric Kodish, M.D., Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH (CA 20320); Gregory Reaman, M.D., Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC (CA 03888); Paul Gaynon, M.D., Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (CA 02649); Frederick Ruymann, M.D., Children's Hospital of Columbus, OH (CA 03750); Linda Granowetter, M.D., Columbia Presbyterian College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY (CA 03526); James Whitlock, M.D., Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville TN (CA 26270); H. Stacy Nicholson, M.D., Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children, Portland, OR (CA 26044); Joseph Neglia, M.D., University of Minnesota Health Sciences Center, Minneapolis, MN (CA 07306); Beverly Lange, M.D., Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA (CA 11796); Peter Steinherz, M.D., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (CA 42764); Robert Fallon, M.D., James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, IN (CA 13809); Paul Rogers, M.D., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (CA 29013); Robert Wells, M.D., Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH (CA 26126); Jerry Finklestein, M.D., Harbor/UCLA and Miller Children's Medical Center, Torrance/Long Beach, CA (CA 14560); Stephen Feig, M.D., University of California Medical Center (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA (CA 27678); Raymond Tannous, M.D., University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA (CA 29314); Carola Arndt, M.D., Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN (CA 28882); Dorothy Barnard, M.D., Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Stuart Gold, M.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; Richard Drachtman, M.D., University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Camden, NJ; Peter Coccia, M.D., University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE; James Nachman, M.D., Wyler Children's Hospital, 7/5/2013 Page 10 of 12 Chicago, IL; Beverly Raney, M.D., M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Aaron Rausen, M.D., New York University Medical Center, New York, NY; Violet Shen, M.D., Children's Hospital of Orange County, Orange CA. A significant association was found between risk of NHL and increased frequency of reported pesticide use in the home (odds ratio [OR] = 7.3 for use most days; trend P = 0.05), professional exterminations within the home (OR = 3.0; P = 0.002), and postnatal exposure (OR = 2.4; P = 0.001). Elevated risks were found for T-cell and B-cell lymphomas; for lymphoblastic, large cell, and Burkitt morphologies; and in both young (age < 6 years) and older children. There was an increased risk of NHL with occupational exposure to pesticides (OR = 1.7) that was not significant overall, but that was significant for Burkitt lymphoma (OR = 9.6; P < 0.05). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1097-0142% 2820001201%2989:11%3C2315::AID-CNCR21%3E3.0.CO;2-G/full -Occupational Exposures of Parents of Children with Acute Nonlymphocytic Leukemia: A Report from the Childrens Cancer Study Groupl 2+ Author Affiliations 1. School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089[J. D. B., R. S., D. H. G., P. M, J. M. P., G. D. HJ; Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota 55812 [L. L. R., M. E. N., W. G. W.J; Joint Section of Hematology/Oncology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637[M 1,1; and Department of Hematology-Oncology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80933 [L. 01 The Childrens Cancer Study Group conducted a case-control study of occupational exposures of parents of 204 children with acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia. The most consistent finding was an association of acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia risk with pesticide exposure. Risk estimates for parental pesticide exposure were substantially increased for children under age 6. Moreover, there were significantly elevated risks for direct exposure of the child to pesticides in the household for maternal exposure to household pesticides at the time of pregnancy. These data provide further evidence for a role of occupational risk factors in the etiology of childhood cancer. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2736544 -As per Executive Order 13112 an "invasive species" is defined as a species that is: 1) non-native (or alien) to the ecosystem under consideration and 7/5/2013 Page 11 of 12 2) whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health. -Biggest problem when you pass this is going to be that your land will become more valuable. -Just like the weeds and super bugs who are now too strong to be handled with Roundup, WE are developing resistance to GMOs. I was genetically created with the natural reproduction of my parents to be GMO resistant. http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/whatis.shtml - FYI US Approved GMO crops: Corn (20 varieties) Oilseed Rape/Canola (11 varieties) Cotton (11 varieties) Tomato (6 varieties) Potato (4 varieties) Soybean (3 varieties) Sugar Beet (3 varieties) Squash (2 varieties) Cantaloupe Rice Flax Raddicchio Papaya Alfalfa Wheat http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/GMonMarketUS.pdf - The exaggerated claims of the biotech industry are crumbling under global scientific pressure. The International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability just published a study finding the combination of non-GM seed and management practices used by western Europe is increasing corn yields faster than the use of the GM-led packages chosen by the US. The study found that conventional plant breeding, not genetic engineering, was responsible for yield increases. Their claims of benefit are false, the emperor has no clothes. Biotech companies are not decreasing pesticide use, it has increased. The plants that aren't engineered to be resistant to massive chemical spraying have toxins and pesticides engineered into the actual plant so now we can just eat genetic pesticides instead of the liquid form. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14735903.2013.806408#preview -No ringspot virus in Hawaii since the 1970s, 1991 Papaya invention, Puna field testing, 92 PRSV breakout, 98 approval (1970s) -World Food Prize sponsored by Monsanto, World Food Prize, won by Monsanto - Introduction and eventual failure of SB727 to strike the Counties' rights to protect the life and health of County residents? Who do you think fought to take away the right of the government to enact laws to protect the life and health of its' citizens? It was the same biotech industry, paid lobbyists here today who have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Hawaii politicians who lobbied to remove the power to protect life, and health. The GMO industry, spends money, paying lobbyists, to fight against our rights to protect our life, and health. This bill made it through the Senate (huge surprise) and was killed in the House, or we could not have this conversation. -For these reasons and many more, Babes Against Biotech has adopted a policy to generously 7/5/2013 Page 12 of 12 campaign in favor of those legislators who support GMO regulation, labeling and prohibition. -In the same token, our policy states that any legislator voting against GMO labeling, against GMO prohibition or in favor of any pro-biotech legislation will be added to our list of The Unelectables. We will work against their re-election regardless of whether or not they have received GMO campaign funds and in support of superior opponents who respect our rights to life and health as GMO is the number one priority of the majority of our members and subscribers. There are currently 7,400 of us. We love all human beings and cannot risk having in office any politician who does not support our ability to reproduce and protect our earth. We apologize if this is an inconvenience to you, however we believe the pollution of our genetic stability of life as we know it as a far greater inconvenience. 7/5/2013 -You know natural and GMO cannot CO-EXIST. The concept touted by opposing minority of this bill is highly ignorant. The chemicals and genetic changes do travel and contaminate the GENES OF ORGANIC AND CONVENTIONAL PLANTS FOREVER. THERE IS NO RECALL. This is not coexistence when the existence of GMOs affects the DNA of original plants that have sustained us for 1000s of years. That is not co-existence, that is hostile genetic takeover. If I am your neighbor, and I have no lymph nodes, and I enter your home and forcibly remove your lymph nodes so we are the same, am I helping you? The definition of coexist: Exist at the same time or in the same place. If I'm organic, I can exist and it doesn't hurt you. If you are GMO and you exist, you are hurting me, you take away my genetic heritage and destroy the environment in which I live, my natural bee related pollination, my genes and my health. You are scientifically taking away from my ability to exist. This is parasitic, the very definition of an invasive species. -I contend that rather than being divisive, I have never seen so many Hawaii residents united. When was the last time, 11,500 people in Hawaii marched for any cause? Hawaii island has a smaller movement, because you are not already experiencing what we are experiencing on Oahu, Molokai and Kauai. On Oahu, 2,500 residents marched down Kalakua Avenue in Waikiki on May 25`", in solidarity with more than 2 million people worldwide to stop GMOs. We have more advocates in just one march on one island than this entire industry employs in the State. That day about 4k statewide participated. -At the first march on Monsanto's headquarters June 28, 2012 we had 150 participants. In the last six months, more than 11,500 Hawaii residents have literally marched the streets to stop GMO agriculture in Hawaii. That is a 7,566% increase in active advocates who were available on the days of anti-GMO marches in the last six months in Hawaii alone. If we continue at this rate of growth in one year, the movement in Hawaii may be as large as 870,090 in a population of 1.392 million. -The only people dividing themselves out are GMO papaya farmers and ranchers, who appear to have been misled (likely by GMO industry contacts) to believe that Bill 79 would stop them from continuing the damages they have already enacted. The pro-GMO farmers and ranchers fail to understand co-existence with GMOs is impossible or accept the fact that as the bill stands, they are exempt from prohibition of current practices. The only co-existence I can see is if GMOs are contained to warehouses and secured laboratories only and even still, we risk unintentional, undesired contamination. The organic community has offered to take in the GMO papaya farmers and help them transform their agricultural practices. Incidentally, when GMOs exist we have no choice. - As per Executive Order 13112 an "invasive species" is defined as a species that is: 1) non-native (or alien) to the ecosystem under consideration and 2) whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health. http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/whatis.shtml -What is more important to you, are you willing to willfully expose 186,000 people to genetic and chemical experimentation and agriculture banned in most of the modern world to save a few hundred or a thousand jobs? -This bill does not at this time affect GMO papaya farmers. I support this bill in its original form. As it stands I move to strike all amendments unique from the original draft and while I would like Hawaii to be GMO free at this time, if I were a politician I would probably allow existing GMO papaya at this time and address it specifically in separate legislation, ranchers will have time to plant non-GMO by the time this goes into effect. You do not have to grow GMO alfalfa or feed, you have the freedom at this time to grow non-GMO. This bill does not stop ranchers from purchasing and using GM feed, nor does it prohibit any GMOs existing prior. I am concerned about the medical and agricultural research facilities will only allow GMO companies to enter under a different guise uninterrupted. I move to strike all amendments unique form the original draft and at this time allow GM papaya and prior existing crops for this temporary situation. This bill runs for 3-5 years, this is the first step. Secure what you have now and address the existing GMOs in future legislation. The farmers and the cowmen should be friends. -I believe if you are wise, you will seize this remarkable opportunity to keep pure and pristine the environment of Hawaii island. The land will become more valuable, more rich in soil than ever before and what is more attractive to true farmers working toward sustainability? GMO contaminated, chemical saturated agricultural land or clean, pristine, organic soil preserved by the distance of water? If you want to maintain and increase the precious condition of this island with 13 climate zones which can literally grow any good crops for all the islands. -I live on Oahu where the majority of GMO companies in Hawaii are headquartered. I have been poisoned three times by pesticides from protesting at the gates of Monsanto and Syngenta in Kunia. These fields are across the street from residences. At 5 minutes standing at their property boundary, even with a breathing mask, you feel the burning, the stinging on your skin from the chemical dust, your nose and your eyes start running. When Monsanto began spraying pesticides with 150 protesters at their gate, the pesticides literally changed my voice, it was the scariest physical reaction 1 have ever had to anything. I sounded as if I had hormone therapy, my lymph nodes were as large as ping pong balls. -By the way, the atrazine found in Waimea Middle Schools' drinking water changes the sex of frogs. The urine of a male worker spraying atrazine has 24,000 the amount of atrazine it takes to chemically castrate a frog. Dr. Tyrone Hayes: "If you are a male exposed to Atrazine, your testosterone goes away, so you're demasculinized, or chemically castrated," he said. "And you're also feminized because you're making estrogen, which you should not be doing as a male." Women are not usually allowed to spray, because they start hemorrhaging almost immediately. http://thegardenisland.com/news/local/experts-atrazine-a-real-threat-to-westside- residents/article bb8ba5bc-855b-11e2-85c9-001a4bcf887a.html -Meet Michael R. Taylor, J.D., Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine, former attorney, top lobbyist and VICE PRESIDENT OF MONSANTO is now in charge of the Food regulation of the FDA. -Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice, who refused to recuse himself from a crucial GMO case and ruled in favor of Monsanto, was a MONSANTO ATTORNEY. -Google GMO executives or visit http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/news.cfm and select Monsanto's government ties. This is the TIP of the iceberg. Toby Moffett Monsanto US Congessman D-CT Consultant Dennis Monsanto US Senator D-AZ DeConcini Legal Counsel Margaret Chemical Lab Dep. Dir. FDA, Bush Sr, Miller Supervisor HFS Clinton Marcia Hale Director, Int'l White House Clinton Govt. Affairs Senior Staff Mickey Board Member Sec. of Commerce Clinton Kantor Virginia VP, Public Policy WH-Appt to CSA' Clinton Weldon Gores SDR Josh King Director, Int'l White House Clinton g Govt. Affairs Communications David Beier VP, Gov't & Public Gore's Chief Dom. Clinton Affairs Polcy Advisor Carol Tucker-Monsanto Lobbyist WH-Appointed Clinton Foreman Consumer Adv Linda Fisher VP, Gov't & Public Deputy Admin Clinton, Affairs EPA Bush Manager, New Clinton, Lidia Watrud Technologies USDA, EPA Bush, Obama Michael VP, Public Policy Dep. Commiss. Obama Taylor FDA Hilary Rose Law Firm, US Senator, D-NY Clinton Monsanto Counsel Secretary of State Obama Roger Director, Monsanto Director USDA Obama Beachy Danforth Center NIFA Islam Monsanto Lobbyist AgNegotiator Siddiqui Trade Rep -American Academy of Environmental Medicine strongly advises: "Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community, and the public to avoid GM foods when possible and provide educational materials concerning GM foods and health risks. Physicians to consider the possible role of GM foods in the disease processes of the patients they treat and to document any changes in patient health when changing from GM food to non-GM food. Our members, the medical community, and the independent scientific community to gather case studies potentially related to GM food consumption and health effects, begin epidemiological research to investigate the role of GM foods on human health, and conduct safe methods of determining the effect of GM foods on human health. For a moratorium on GM food, implementation of immediate long term independent safety testing, and labeling of GM foods, which is necessary for the health and safety of consumers." http://www.aaemonline.org/gmopost.html -GMO ground zero responsibility, Hawaii is the site of more than 5,000 GMO open air field tests, more than anywhere else in the world. This is their research and seed industry headquarters worldwide. We are literally creating major problems with the entire planets' food supply, shipping out seeds without even paying GE taxes, Vladimir Putin has warned war is coming to the United States if we don't cease this foolish GMO abuse including the use of neonicotinoid pesticides linked to Colony Collapse Disorder which are killing our bees worldwide. http://www.eutimes.net/2013/05/russia-warns-obama-global-war-over-bee-apocalypse-coming- soon/ -GE tax exemptions, agricultural research tax exemptions, enterprize zone tax exemptions and 70% of US soy was subsidized by the Federal Government's crop insurance. If 94% of US soy is GMO and 70% of the soy failed and required crop insurance subsidization, what does that tell you? http://farm.ewg.org/ -Substantial equivalence vs. patent rights; Substantial equivalence is the argument made by the GMO industry to insist that GMO crops are no different from conventional crops and thereby should not be subjected to additional regulation. How is this possible when GM crops are patented? So to the patent office, the gene is a unique invention that deserves to be patented and owned, but to the public, it's "substantially equivalent" and we should not be bothered by the difference in standards and accountability. -Food and Drug Cosmetic Act states if harm to animals or humans shown in studies, moratorium must be placed. We already have animal studies showing harm. We are the human studies against our will. -Precautionary Principle is pertinent. There is no recall of GMO releases. -Center for Food Safety reports, Monsanto v. US Farmers http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/reports/1401/monsanto-‘s-us-farmers -Seed Giants v. Farmers: http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/reports/1770/seed-giants-vs-us- farmers - 49% of US farms are now covered in glyphosate resistant weeds, 2.4 million acres glyphosate resistant farm land in US. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup. In Roundup Ready soy territory in Argentina, infants are being born with tumors larger than their heads. -15 fold increase in glyphosate usage on soy, corn and Cotton from 1994 to 2005 driven by Roundup Ready crops -GMO companies would like you to believe they are on the side of the farmers, why then are they repeatedly suing for patent infringement when undesired GMO contamination occurs? "The largest recorded judgment made thus far in favor of Monsanto as a result of a farmer lawsuit is $3,052,800.00. Total recorded judgments granted to Monsanto for lawsuits amount to $15,253,602.82. Farmers have paid a mean of$412,259.54 for cases with recorded judgments." -Two of thirty GMO babies surviving have the DNA of three parents, two women and one man. Gene pool contamination, thanks a lot. Now if the GMO babies grow up, (of which photos are nowhere to be found) and start mating in triple DNA with once again, no disclosure, we have no idea what is going to happen. Do you really want to allow agricultural and medical GMO research facilities here? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donna-gates/genetically-engineered- babies b 1652842.html -Cows engineered to produce human breast milk, great. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/08/human-milk-cow-china_n 873354.html -Even the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture admits that no GM crop on the market has been modified to increase yield -Over 5,000 open air GMOs released in Hawaiian islands, I stress minimal Big Island contamination, defend Hawaii NOW, not when you are at the state of Oahu, Molokai and Kauai. Please defend Hawaii island now, you are almost the last island left which has not been nearly destroyed and contaminated by GMOs. -This is an arrogant technology, arrogant lobbyists, arrogant corporations, ignorant supporters of open air GMOs, sadly. YOU MUST MAINTAIN THE GMO COMPANIES' PERMISSION TO STUDY THEIR PRODUCTS. Permission is denied regularly, that is why we have less research particularly in the US, where Monsanto has written and paid for its' own Congressional protection act. The technology is so imprecise, that in order to even know whether or not the new genetic insertion has successfully implanted in the other species, they have to attach antibiotic markers in order to test for the presence of antibiotics and therefore determine whether or not the transmission was successful. As antibiotic resistance rises in our communities, myself being one of many people who has "become" allergic to antibiotics, we need to reduce and eliminate our consumption of food-based, genetically engineered antibiotics. -I detected $391,000 of GMO money in the Hawaii State, House, Senate and Honolulu City Council as of August 2012. If you include the wives and daughter of the top two GMO lobbyists, the figures nearly double, and these women are not registered. This is only what's on the books. -More than 90% of Hawaii's food is imported, this is foolish. You have 13 climate zones here. You can grow enough food for the state. You can have the best farming land in the world if you get the GMOs out NOW. Do not let further contamination occur. -Endangered species capitol of the world, only place where over 5k open air GMO experiments have been released into the open air -Sherbrooke Gynecology Hospital found GMO related Bt pesticide toxin in the blood of 94% of pregnant moms, 86% of umbilical blood http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21338670 -Longest animal study of GMO consumption regarding Roundup Ready GMO corn found reproductive failure and extremely high rates of female breast cancer, the majority of tumors were found in the breasts of female rats and the effect of compounded glyphosate in the Roundup related production was found to increase these events. http://www.ijbs.com/v05p0706.htm -GMO soy fed hamsters reproductive failure, testicles turned blue, and hair grew from the gums and teeth of the hamsters. By the third generation, 55% of the entire hamster group were dead as pups. "The Russian National Academy of Sciences, reported that more than half the babies from mother rats fed GM soy died within three weeks. This was also five times higher than the 10% death rate of the non-GMO soy group. The babies in the GM group were also smaller (see photo) and could not reproduce." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/Jeffrey-smith/genetically-modified- soy b_544575.html -Just 60 GMO fish released into a population of 60,000 can extinct the ENTIRE WILD POPULATION IN JUST 40 GENERATIONS. http://www.oceanconservancy.org/our- work/aquaculture/aquaculture-genetically.html -They are counting on us being too stupid to stop them. -The FDA approves GMOs with 90 day conducted by the companies themselves. -Hawaii island is the lead Queen bee exporter in the world. Our bees are dying. The worlds' bees are dying, linked to GMO related and pesticide coated neonicotinoid seeds. -2,4-D, component of Agent Orange, is now being sprayed HERE on US because Roundup is no longer working, all the bugs and weeds have developed resistance. This is what we are experiencing on Oahu, Molokai and Kauai. WE ARE BEING SPRAYED WITH AGENT ORANGE. -WORLD FOOD PRIZE SPONSORED BY MONSANTO PAID FOR BY MONSANTO -90% of GMOs are produced in only 5 idiotic countries. -If you take the Monsanto lobbyist Alan Takemoto's offer to visit Monsanto Hawaii HQ please bring your gas mask. -Organic land MUCH MORE VALUABLE THAN GMO LAND FOR SURE. -Loss of 25 pounds when I became educated about GMOs -Mothers whose childrens' ailments are alleviated by removing GMOs -Gene gun processes, violence against my genes, genetic rape -This is FOOLS GOLD. Learn from India, where every 30 minutes a GMO farmer commits suicide. The GMO companies take advantage of uneducated farmers and sell them on the technology, failing to explain that they need to re-purchase seeds each year, associated chemicals and pesticides/insecticides/herbicides. Majorly GMO Bt cotton growers, farmers and also not told Bt cotton takes at least double the water of India's native cotton. When their farms are destroyed, their fields cannot produce, they do not have money to pay (primarily Monsanto) and in India, upon suicide, the family is forgiven of any debt held by the dead. Monsanto sends lobbyists throughout India to fight for the right to take whatever remaining assets the impoverished family has once the male spouse of the home has committed suicide. As you have heard, the majority are killing themselves by drinking Roundup. Do we want this kind devastation to someday hit our papaya farmers or will you help them transition now? -Re: gmo farmers pesticode exposure cancer rates in children, did they know there was no ringspot virus problem in Hawaii until Dennis Gonsalves' GMO PRSV resistant papaya team started field testing in Puna? 1991, invented and Puna field trials begin. Application for approval for commercialization occurs. 1992, PRSV mysteriously appears in Puna when no ringspot problem EXISTED IN HAWAII since the 1970s. http://hawaiitribune- herald.com/sections/news/local-news/papaya-gmo-success-story.html -A new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) outlines the harmful effects of pesticides on children and makes recommendations on how to reduce exposure. The policy statement, "Pesticide Exposure in Children," and an accompanying technical report are published in the December 2012 issue of Pediatrics (released online Nov. 26). Prenatal and early childhood exposure to pesticides is associated with pediatric cancers, decreased cognitive function and behavioral problems. According to the AAP, recognizing and reducing children's exposure to pesticides will require improved medical training, public health tracking, and regulatory approaches. The AAP recommends pediatricians become familiar with the effects of acute and chronic exposures to pesticides; learn what resources are available for both treatment of acute poisoning and addressing lower dose chronic exposures in children; and understand pesticide labeling. Pediatricians should ask parents about pesticide use around the home and yard, offer guidance about safe storage, and recommend parents choose lowest-harm approaches when considering pest control. Pediatricians should also work with schools and government agencies to advocate for the least toxic methods of pest control, and to inform communities when pesticides are being used in the area. The policy statement also makes a number of recommendations for government, including specific recommendations related to marketing, labeling, use and safety of pesticides to minimize children's exposure. http://www.aap.org/en- us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/AAP-Makes-Recommendations-to-Reduce- Children%27s-Expos_ure-to-Pesticides.aspx?nfstatus=401&nftoken=00000000-0000-0000-0000- 000000000000&nfstatusdescription_ERROR%3a+No+local+token -Abhorred to discover Dennis Gonsalves claim that we can still sell organic papaya if it's been contaminated because only the seeds will be GMO. Great so it can still be sold as organic even though the seeds are GMO. This is one of many reasons to ban GMO papaya, if not today, very soon. - A significant risk of astrocytoma was associated with exposures to herbicides from residential use (OR= 1.9; 95% CI, 1.2-3.0). Combining parental exposures to herbicides from both residential and occupational sources, the elevated risk remained significant (OR= 1.8; 95% CI, 1.1-3.1) - Significant increase in childhood cancer risk with parent pesticide related occupational exposure - Childhood brain cancer increase due to parental occupational pesticide exposure: Elevated risks of astrocytoma were found for paternal exposure (ever vs. never) to all four classes of pesticides http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/157/11/989.short - Elevated risk of pediatric Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma with parental occupational exposure, a SIGNIFICANT ASSOCIATION WAS FOUND. The study was performed by the following principal Children's Cancer Group participants (with their National Cancer Institute grants in parentheses) W. Archie Bleyer, M.D., Anita Khayat, Ph.D., Harland Sather, Ph.D., Mark Krailo, Ph.D., Jonathan Buckley, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., Daniel Stram, Ph.D., and Richard Sposto, Ph.D., Group Operations Center, Arcadia, CA (CA 13539); Raymond Hutchinson, M.D., University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI (CA 02971); Katherine Matthay, M.D., University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA (CA 17829); Diane Puccetti, M.D., University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, WI (CA 05436); J. Russell Geyer, M.D., Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Seattle, WA (CA 10382); Eric Kodish, M.D., Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH (CA 20320); Gregory Reaman, M.D., Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC (CA 03888); Paul Gaynon, M.D., Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (CA 02649); Frederick Ruymann, M.D., Children's Hospital of Columbus, OH (CA 03750); Linda Granowetter, M.D., Columbia Presbyterian College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY (CA 03526); James Whitlock, M.D., Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville TN (CA 26270); H. Stacy Nicholson, M.D., Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children, Portland, OR (CA 26044); Joseph Neglia, M.D., University of Minnesota Health Sciences Center, Minneapolis, MN (CA 07306); Beverly Lange, M.D., Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA (CA 11796); Peter Steinherz, M.D., Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (CA 42764); Robert Fallon, M.D., James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, IN (CA 13809); Paul Rogers, M.D., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (CA 29013); Robert Wells, M.D., Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH (CA 26126); Jerry Finklestein, M.D., Harbor/UCLA and Miller Children's Medical Center, Torrance/Long Beach, CA (CA 14560); Stephen Feig, M.D., University of California Medical Center (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA (CA 27678); Raymond Tannous, M.D., University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA (CA 29314); Carola Arndt, M.D., Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN (CA 28882); Dorothy Barnard, M.D., Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Stuart Gold, M.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; Richard Drachtman, M.D., University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Camden, NJ; Peter Coccia, M.D., University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE; James Nachman, M.D., Wyler Children's Hospital, Chicago, IL; Beverly Raney, M.D., M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Aaron Rausen, M.D., New York University Medical Center, New York, NY; Violet Shen, M.D., Children's Hospital of Orange County, Orange CA. A significant association was found between risk of NHL and increased frequency of reported pesticide use in the home (odds ratio [OR] = 7.3 for use most days; trend P= 0.05), professional exterminations within the home (OR=3.0; P= 0.002), and postnatal exposure (OR=2.4; P= 0.001). Elevated risks were found for T-cell and B-cell lymphomas; for lymphoblastic, large cell, and Burkitt morphologies; and in both young (age < 6 years) and older children. There was an increased risk of NHL with occupational exposure to pesticides (OR= 1.7) that was not significant overall, but that was significant for Burkitt lymphoma (OR= 9.6; P< 0.05). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1097- 0142%2820001201%2989:11%3C2315::AID-CNCR21%3E3.0.CO;2-G/full -Occupational Exposures of Parents of Children with Acute Nonlymphocytic Leukemia: A Report from the Childrens Cancer Study Groups'2+ Author Affiliations 1. School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089[J D. B., R. S., D. H. G., P. M., J. M. P., G. D. H]; Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota 55812 [L. L. R., M E. N., W. G. W.]; Joint Section of Hematology/Oncology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637[M L.]; and Department of Hematology-Oncology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80933 [L. 0.] The Childrens Cancer Study Group conducted a case-control study of occupational exposures of parents of 204 children with acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia. The most consistent finding was an association of acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia risk with pesticide exposure. Risk estimates for parental pesticide exposure were substantially increased for children under age 6. Moreover, there were significantly elevated risks for direct exposure of the child to pesticides in the household for maternal exposure to household pesticides at the time of pregnancy. These data provide further evidence for a role of occupational risk factors in the etiology of childhood cancer. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2736544 -As per Executive Order 13112 an "invasive species" is defined as a species that is: 1) non-native (or alien) to the ecosystem under consideration and 2) whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health. -Biggest problem when you pass this is going to be that your land will become more valuable. -Just like the weeds and super bugs who are now too strong to be handled with Roundup, WE are developing resistance to GMOs. I was genetically created with the natural reproduction of my parents to be GMO resistant. http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/whatis.shtml - FYI US Approved GMO crops: Corn (20 varieties) Oilseed Rape/Canola (11 varieties) Cotton (11 varieties) Tomato (6 varieties) Potato (4 varieties) Soybean (3 varieties) Sugar Beet (3 varieties) Squash (2 varieties) Cantaloupe Rice Flax Raddicchio Papaya Alfalfa Wheat http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/GMonMarketUS.pdf - The exaggerated claims of the biotech industry are crumbling under global scientific pressure. The International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability just published a study finding the combination of non-GM seed and management practices used by western Europe is increasing corn yields faster than the use of the GM-led packages chosen by the US. The study found that conventional plant breeding, not genetic engineering, was responsible for yield increases. Their claims of benefit are false, the emperor has no clothes. Biotech companies are not decreasing pesticide use, it has increased. The plants that aren't engineered to be resistant to massive chemical spraying have toxins and pesticides engineered into the actual plant so now we can just eat genetic pesticides instead of the liquid form. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14735903.2013.806408#preview -No ringspot virus in Hawaii since the 1970s, 1991 Papaya invention, Puna field testing, 92 PRSV breakout, 98 approval (1970s) -World Food Prize sponsored by Monsanto, World Food Prize, won by Monsanto - Introduction and eventual failure of SB727 to strike the Counties' rights to protect the life and health of County residents? Who do you think fought to take away the right of the government to enact laws to protect the life and health of its' citizens? It was the same biotech industry, paid lobbyists here today who have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Hawaii politicians who lobbied to remove the power to protect life, and health. The GMO industry, spends money, paying lobbyists, to fight against our rights to protect our life, and health. This bill made it through the Senate (huge surprise) and was killed in the House, or we could not have this conversation. -For these reasons and many more, Babes Against Biotech has adopted a policy to generously campaign in favor of those legislators who support GMO regulation, labeling and prohibition. -In the same token, our policy states that any legislator voting against GMO labeling, against GMO prohibition or in favor of any pro-biotech legislation will be added to our list of The Unelectables. We will work against their re-election regardless of whether or not they have received GMO campaign funds and in support of superior opponents who respect our rights to life and health as GMO is the number one priority of the majority of our members and subscribers. There are currently 7,400 of us. We love all human beings and cannot risk having in office any politician who does not support our ability to reproduce and protect our earth. We apologize if this is an inconvenience to you, however we believe the pollution of our genetic stability of life as we know it as a far greater inconvenience.