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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0271a.094 2012-2014 Page 1 of 1 COUNT C Murashige, Laura CQtt!�!ry r� LERif From: J Yoshimoto [jyoshimoto @co.hawaii.hi.us] 2013 AUG —5 Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 8:38 AM 4" 9: 19 To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us Subject: FW: Monsanto: A food stock with a bad aftertaste - (Canada's highly conservative national newspaper) The Globe and Mail/investor/investment-ideas/strategy From: Shannon Rudolph [mailto:shannonkona©gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 12:36 AM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Monsanto: A food stock with a bad aftertaste - (Canada's highly conservative national newspaper)The Globe and Mail /investor/investment-ideas/strategy Aloha Council! Passing this on.. Mahalo! Shannon Rudolph - Kona "I was shocked to read a story in Canada's highly conservative national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, a couple of days ago in which well-known investor and columnist Chris Umiastowski, P.Eng., MBA, warned of the risk in holding Monsanto stock. It was refreshing to read the views of an investor who is not just concerned about the bottom line but also the potential health and environmental risks in such a conservative paper. I knew that this was a victory-of-sorts for all of us who share a concern over the increasingly genetically-modified nature of our food supply. In his column, "Monsanto: A food stock with a bad aftertaste," he shares: "it's just as important to know what stocks to avoid as it is to know which ones to invest in. Most growth trends don't last forever and you don't want to be stuck holding the bag when growth disappears or reverses." Here is an investor who is recognizing the"battle raging between consumers and Monsanto" that could leave fallout for investors left holding the bag when consumers take back their right to know what is contained in the food they eat." http://www.care2.com/greenliving/investor-warns-monsanto-stock-leaves-bad- aftertaste.html#ixzz2atsYhWBc *Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ideas/strategy-lab/growth- investing/this-food-stock-has-a-bad-aftertaste/article 13488677/ Comm. No4, "2.71a• 1ct Ref. To: / P5 Ref. Date JUL 0 2 2013 8/5/2013 �� J Yoshimoto From: Shannon Rudolph <shannonkona @gmail.com> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 2:20 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: ***MUST WATCH! Kyle Smith - attorney for Kaua'i Ohana Pesticide Lawsuit Aloha Council! Please don't let this be us in the next decade. Mahalo, Shannon Rudolph - Kona "Mr. Smith will present a case study of law in practice related to his recent lawsuit in the Fifth Circuit Court of Hawaii filed on behalf of more than 150 residents in Waimea, Kauai, against Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a DuPont Company, which conducts experimental testing on genetically modified ("GMO") crops next to Waimea. Waimea residents allege that Pioneer has unlawfully allowed pesticides and fugitive dust to drift from GMO test fields into their community and brought suit to address the impact to their lives and property after Pioneer ignored the community's concerns for over a decade and efforts to negotiate a resolution failed. " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtdNon3xNhM&feature=em-share video user C) :rte a '{ <-i %.l1 :J 1 Page 1 of 1 COUNTY CLERK Murashige, Laura COUNTY '4 AWAII From: J Yoshimoto Uyoshimoto @co.hawaii.hi.us] 7013 AUG -5 PI 2. 39 Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 12:29 PM To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us Subject: FW: West Side Stories From: Shannon Rudolph [mailto:shannonkona©gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 12:03 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: West Side Stories Aloha Council! Passing these short videos on - Hear from the neighbors of biotech on Kaua'i. Mahalo! Shannon Rudolph - Kona Kaua'i West Side Stories#1 *Gordon LaBedz is a retired Kaua'i family doctor and conservationist. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v—BWyRAMd0Rz4 *Dr. Jane Ely - Kaua'i West Side Stories #4 Dr. Jane Ely had to sell her Waimea home and leave Kaua'i because the pesticides being used. http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=jwIPMRpT6kY How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank 8/5/2013 Page 1 of 2 C � Murashige, Laura CONTV ter- .ER 4.: WA it _-- From: J Yoshimoto Uyoshimoto @co.hawaii.hi.us) 013C: S Ili 2. Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 12:29 PM ` 39 To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us Subject: FW: The Tale of Two Waimeas - Same Corporation, Two Hawaii Towns From: Shannon Rudolph [mailto:shannonkona @gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 1:19 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: The Tale of Two Waimeas - Same Corporation, Two Hawai'i Towns Aloha Council! Some of you were less than ten years old when the first lawsuit happened here, so I wanted to make sure you know the history of some of these biotech companies on our island. Please do not let them get a larger foothold here. It's obvious from these lawsuits, nothing has changed with the ethics of this company. These are not the neighbors we want or need. Mahalo! Shannon Rudolph - Kona The Tale of Two Waimeas- Same Corporation,Two Hawai'i Towns. Kaua'i lawsuit happening now, at least 150 people are suing Pioneer/Dupont for spraying a mixture of many of poisons on their town. 1. In Waimea, (Kamuela) on Hawai'i Island, (1995/2005) Dupont, (E.I. du Pont de Nemours &Co.) was sued by Waimea/Kamuela farmers re: Benlate. ***Check it out.... Judge ruled - "Concealment of Toxicity Tests" " "Distorted Test Results" — Sanctioned for Discovery Abuses" Successful judgments in favor of harmed farmers... ($24 million to one farm) (Google search) Ruling Brings New Life to Suit Vs DuPont AP Online; December 7, 2005; ...The distorted test results appeared in another trial in state court in Kona on the Big Island, in which the plaintiff, Kawamata Farms, won nearly$10 million in compensation and $14 million in punitive damages in January 1995. That prompted the group..., AP WorldstreamU.S. court says plant growers can sue DuPont over chemical Benlate AP Worldstream; December 7, 2005; ...The distorted test results appeared in another trial in state court in Kona on the Big Island, in which the plaintiff, Kawamata Farms, won nearly$10 million in compensation and $14 million punitive damages in January 1995.That prompted the group of... Trial Benlate DF suits continue to mount; duPont sanctioned. Trial; April 1, 1995; ...ordered sanction for discovery abuses in the Hawaii case. (Kawamata Farms Inc. v. E.I. du Pont de Nemours &Co., No. 91...concealment of toxicity tests in Benlate DF litigation. In the Kawamata Farms case a jury in Hawaii found in favor of two growers who... 2. "Mr. Kyle Smith will present a case study of law in practice related to his recent lawsuit in the Fifth Circuit Court of Hawaii filed on behalf of more than 150 residents in Waimea, Kauai, against Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a DuPont Company, which conducts experimental testing on genetically modified ("GMO") crops next to Waimea.Waimea residents allege that Pioneer has unlawfully allowed pesticides and fugitive dust to drift from GMO test fields into their 8/5/2013 Page 2 of 2 community and brought suit to address the impact to their lives and property after Pioneer ignored the community's concerns for over a decade and efforts to negotiate a resolution failed. " http://www.voutube.com/watch?v=hZWBu-rosZO ***Hawaii's Local Struggle in the Global Movement for Food Justicehttps://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/23- 3 How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank 8/5/2013 Page 1 of 1 COUNTY Murashige, Laura CO T,, r f " From: J Yoshimoto [joshimoto @co.hawaii.hi.us] 70!) AUG -5 Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 12:30 PM un 2 40 To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us Subject: FW: Pesticide use ramping up as GMO crop technology backfires: study I Reuters From: Shannon Rudolph [mailto:shannonkona @gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 6:03 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Pesticide use ramping up as GMO crop technology backfires: study I Reuters Aloha! Passing this on.... Mahalo! Shannon Rudolph - Kona Pesticide use ramping up as GMO crop technology backfires: study (Reuters) - "U.S. farmers are using more hazardous pesticides to fight weeds and insects due largely to heavy adoption of genetically modified crop technologies that are sparking a rise of "supenNeeds" and hard-to-kill insects, according to a newly released study. Genetically engineered crops have led to an increase in overall pesticide use, by 404 million pounds from the time they were introduced in 1996 through 2011, according to the report by Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University." Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/02/us-usa-study-pesticides-idUSBRE89100X20121002 8/5/2013 Page 1 of 2 Murashige, Laura COUNTY CLERK CQ4lTV t A11 From: J Yoshimoto [joshimoto @co.hawaii.hi.us] Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 12:32 PM 2Qt3 AUG -5 PM 2: 4 To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us Subject: FW: Kaua'i Council LIVE Now/ Part time Kaua'i resident and Senior M.I.T. research scientist/& Concert From: Shannon Rudolph [mailto:shannonkona @gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 11:52 AM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Kaua'i Council LIVE Now/ Part time Kaua'i resident and Senior M.I.T. research scientist/ &Concert *Here the Live link to today's Kaua'i committee meeting on (GMO/Pesticide) Bill 2194. http://kauai.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view id=2&event id=37 *Part time Kaua'i resident and Senior M.I.T. research scientist, Dr. Stephanie Seneff, who recently co- authored a study linking glyphosate to autism and a range of western diseases, and which also showed the fallacy in biotech dogma that claimed the shikimate metabolic pathway which is utilized by glyphosate is present in plants but not humans, testified to Kauai County Council in support of Bill 2491 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player embedded&v=ZFTmTHKFLsO#at=43 *The Kaua'i County recordings of the public hearing on Bill 2491 are now posted (in two parts) with close-ups of testifiers. Part 1 http://kauai.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=1077 Part 2 http://kauai.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=1081 *SOLD OUT! An Evening with David Crosby, Graham Nash, &Jackson Browne! TWO benefit concerts for a Pesticide- Free and GMO-Free Kauai - August 30th - Kauai, HI ($300 tickets sold out in 20 minutes - second concert set up- $50 tickets sold out in a couple of hours WITH NO ADVERTISING for either concert!) 8/5/2013 Page 2 of 2 � rk: 11 *GMO/Pesticides - Dr. Lorrin Pang Type GMO in search box. Link: http://www.hoike.org/index.phn *New Study Links GMO Food To Leukemia "Now, a new study published in the Journal of Hematology& Thromboembolic Diseases indicates that the biopesticides engineered into GM crops known as Bacillus Thuringensis (Bt) or Cry-toxins, may also contribute to blood abnormalities from anemia to hematological malignancies (blood cancers) such as leukemia.[i] Link: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article 27523.cfm *Special Report: Syngenta's campaign to protect atrazine Link: http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2013/atrazine How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ,., Anne Frank 8/5/2013