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Home My WebLink AboutCOM 0393.003 2012-2014 Margaret Wille -''of Phone No. Hilo: (808) 961-8027 Y� --VMt._..N,� ('ouncil.1lember :'c°.. " 70', Phone No. Waimea: (808) 887-2043• ,Ii;, 1)i.strict 9- Vortlt and South Kohalu � � Fax No.: (808) 887-2072 *:.Nk- t°' iii•- E-Mail: mwille7 co.hawaii.hi.us ,4wMM<" i;',- HAWAII COUNTY COUNCIL County of Hawai'i Haw(/''1 Count! Building Ilolonnta('enter West Hawaii Civic('enter Bldg :I 25 Aupuni Street 64-1067 llamalahoa Highway, Suite('-5 7-1-5044Ine Keoholsalole I/wi. Hilo, Hawaii 96720 Hliiniea, Hawaii 967-13 Kailua-Kona, Hawai'r',967-10 C) -CZ 'J Cc-3 - N ; c- -1, -_= TO: J Yoshimoto, Chair t `-4 And Members of the Hawaii County C uncil . c---) FROM: It��y_/Margaret Wille, Council Member i _-70 U • 7; DATE: September 5, 2013 u", SUBJECT: Health Freedom News Article . Please find attached a copy of a Health Freedom News Summer 2011 Cover Story for reference during the Bill 113 discussion at the Public Safety and Mass Transit Committee meeting on 9-6- 13, Thank you. MWidh att Comm. o. ✓ I Ref. To: • 5/vi Serving the Interests of the People of Our Island Ref. Date • I , L t Hawai`i County Is An Equal Opportunity Provider And Employer • COVER STORY R I GENETIC MODIFICATION WINS: ROGUE USDA HANDS IT ALE TO MONSANTO .. BY HEIDI STEVENSON J�� UST AS THE TRUTH OF GENETICALLY Get ready for 1 onsanto's poisonous engineered crops have started to ��plants to be released without any leak out to the general public, the r 7 1 7 United States Department of Agri- mutilation. The USDA is abdieatmg i/s role in culture (USDA)has pulled off a care- 7 j 7 fully designed plot to give the entire contrniizncg many of these plants. ballgarne to Monsanto. They have _ handed Monsanto the ability to sell " their Roundup Ready grass seed, and ? : have done it in a manner that will allow , ° ,":•:,•.. • • them to sell-nearly every other GM �M' product they devise with absolutely no ...'.,,Ai, - •" r�„, • -''' _ • limitations. �' '• . This has been accomplished by a •• .. `i ,,.w '• •- .••�� .. : .• clever and clandestine plan,one that ini- •• • ; tially appeared to support serious reside- .'�;,' "•=i: : >ai1: .. ' tions on genetically modified plants — :�,.., , S ?:; ::` '�' ° -;q7 � �` l� •'•• �'. .° •1.4::4:.. •!�';>'c.•,• s but,as demonstrated by a sneaky late-Fri ' 'f .; ..•Y: . :.. ;•. day declaration,was actually designed to . •.'` . •�,.. �j'�.,.,, ,�:;`” •,'`• "," ,':I••:, t: Y .a •N 'f•'1, j. yf.4 ..1.. ,..<h�•e<t I. i:∎•c .1, :%5.4,'`'•give Monsanto virtually everything. ;:�•; , � :t '%• • 4 j s'.:';•".`•i `':+;..;t�%,:••,.4•.;. ••,:. ::\∎•: Late last.Friday—whennewstendsto • ` :1. t..%. Al • `r^•' •''•••4`... ..,...t;�:ry;.4.,,..: ``;1,''�<..•:'`•• take a holiday—the USDA quietly issued :!, ,,"•=i•• '{ ' •:•1' + ;1'.A. ;F::; 1•' ,• ::.••I�• • •ti�.': t �'+' t �'e'' � •�i :�4:'�?t..:.: l:'•'• �: '• is a press release stating that they will not" 1"`•'/• :K :li.:.�; ';. ,•‘,.:'....-!. : ' :; `!o .. i .?.1. ).,].;•„,4:41Y•�.. '• ti,: . P g Y 1'► YYY :`•.• ff t.:; ,.•�.,�' •:i •i . ... ��y. ��:• re late Monsanto's Roundup Ready r i ` ••:• 1: ,44..��'' ".. •' '.s. Scotts Kentucky Bluegrass.By not'ego-• .f i . '.! • )'i;N, ' *'+. , . $• ':h• . •f ''4:,�' �i : ' -'' ::• lat'tng it,they are allowing it to be sold: i. ; •• , t.. ,' r r' -.•;;•S •.•without any regulation of are sort. ,•. •` •-' _•• f• ' -,,�{ .i'`+ t- • 4 Y arty is` :.`•t,. .tl•. s. Monsanto will be able to sell its '' ' < ,' l glyphosate-resistant grass seeds at will, that homeowners should expect to be ex- plant pest to genetically engineer the Ken- . can expect to see corporate entities, empt from lvlonsanto's rapaciousness. tucky bluegrass.Moreover, the glyphosate like golf cours , plant those seeds and tolerance is caused by a single gene inser- then madly spray soil-sterilizing gly- USDA Decides Not to Regulate tion,which does not create a new species of phosate everywhere. What is both remarkable and frighten- Kentucky bluegrass.In addition,APHIS has Then,as their GM seeds start to cross- ing is that the USDA did not approve no reason to believe that the GE Kentucky breed with yours,you can expect Mon- Monsanto's grass.Instead,their division, bluegrass itself is a plant pest.Accordingly, santo to demand that you pay them for Animal and Plant Health Inspection the Scotts GE bluegrass variety is iwt a infringing on their patents.Just as farm- Service(APHIS),stated: regulated article under APHIS'biotechnology era, whose crops have been adulterated "APHIS has confirmed that organisms regulations..• [Emphases mine] by Monsanto's seed pollen,are forced to used in generating Scotts'variety of GE In a nutshell,the USDA says: pay Monsanto for growing those adulter- Kentucky bluegrass are not considered to •If a plant pest is not used in the . ated crops,there is no reason to believe be plat pests, and Scotts did not use a manufacture of a genetically- 1 HEALTH FREEDOM NEWS J SUMMER 2011 11 engineered crop, or "If the companies don't use plant pests(in noxious weed. •A single gene insertion modified development of CMOs),then the USDA os- A court had ordered the USDA to corn- the organism,or tensibly doesn't have legal hook to regulate plate its environmental impact study on •The new organism is not believed the crops." GM beets, but the USDA ignored the to be a direct plant pest itself,then On the first of Jul},the USDA sent a let- order and went ahead with their ap- •APHIS(the USDA)does not have ter to Scotts.They capitulated completely proval_ Now,after thumbing its nose at the authority to regulate it. to the Scotts letter's claim: the courts,the USDA has given Monsanto "Because no plant pests, unclassified or- free rein to poison the soil and people How We Gat to This Point ganisms,or organisms whose classification with its GM seeds. Doug Gurian-Sherman is a senior scien- is unknown were used to genetically engi- This is a statement included in the tist at the Union of Concerned Scientists' neer this variety of GE Kentucky bluegrass, USDA's document explaining why:Atey Food and Environment Program.In a re- APFIIS has no reason to believe it is a plant are not going to regulate GM Kentucky blue- cent interview with Mother Jones rnaga- pest and therefore does not consider the Ken- grass as a noxious weed! They used the zine's Tom Philpott,he said that back in the tacky bluegrass described in the letter dated sleight-of-hand declaration that the GM 'SOs,the Plant Pest Act gave the USDA au-• September 13, 20W to be regulated un 7 version is"essentially the same'as the non- thority to restrict the introduction of organ- CFR part 340 and is not subject to the plant GM version, isms that might harm plants.According to pest provisions of the PPA(Plant Pest Act)." In other words, their logic reads like Gurion-Sherman: this: "The Plant Pest Act was always just a reg- USDA,Rogue Agency •Non-GM Kentucky bluegrass is a ulatory hook to give the USDA authority to The USDA could easily have declared noxious weed. regulate engineered crops. Everyone—the in- genetically modified Kentucky bluegrass Xis black. dustiy, industry watchdogs, the USDA — to be a noxious weed.The Center for Food • GM Kentucky bluegrass is always knew it was a fiction," Safety did,in fact,request that they do so. essentially the same as non-GM The genetic engineering industry ac- It would have been a perfectly logical step Kentucky bluegrass. cepted it, because according to Gurion- to take.Grasses of all sorts—and Kentucky Y is just like X. Sherman; they knew it was little more bluegrass is no exception—have light and •Therefore,GM Kentucky bluegrass than: • easily dispersed pollen. Thus, the Iikeli- is not a noxious weed. "..,a fig leaf. They could say that their hood of polluting existing strains is very Therefore Y is white crops are regulated and have been deemed high—in fact,its virtually certain. Like Only a rogue agency would presume to 'safe'by the USDA.," most other grasses, Kentucky bluegrass use logic that runs like that!It's obvious They also knew that,once the fiction of ,grows and spreads rapidly. There is al- that the USDA set out to Iet loose geneti- a GM plant being .a direct pest.was. ready an example of a genetically engi- tally-engineered crops on the World. stripped,they would be left virtually un- neared grass becoming a noxious weed: So, you can get ready for even more regulated. Roundup Ready bentgrass is already a toxic poisons to be used against the corn- But another regulation was tossed into scourge in Oregon, irig plague of glyphosate-resistant plants the works 6.2000.The Plant Protection Act that have gone wild.You can also antici- extended the Plant Pest Act to include a And the USDA admits Ill pate that Monsanto will follow through on noxious weed status, meaning that any La a document released on Friday, the its plan to make every person in the World plant that thzeatens to go wild and become same day that they refused to regulate GM pay them tribute. a dangerous weed could be controlled by Kentucky bluegrass, Even when farmers the USDA. This,though,just slowed the the USDA stated: It's obvious that the have actively tried to deregulation down a bit. "The analysis con- USDA set out to let loose prevent it,Monsanto has The Scotts.corporation recently sent a dudes that Kentucky .xyneticallyengsneered been declaring that any letter to the Secretary of Agriculture,Tom bluegrass species P crops on Pig World. farm plant with their Viisackstating: pratensis (including ':..V'. ,�4 t • toxic genes belong to .Because Kentucky bluegrass itself is not GE and non GE) can '6.6.i.:.;':.',...:......:1......:.',.. ./.. them, \'Then you don't a plant pest no ant pest components be considered rre u- c';:::'::";:,.•;A.:I:'',•k:ti�' F pest, p p p for g :...; f,.:: ...>. ..:=,� y.,..:•.,.. :. :.. find their plants quickly• be involved in the transformation,and the rra- lotion as a Federally y ,;`. a s' ;u,, ,..:.::..•, • :. enough to weed them five plant genomes that will be used are fully listed noxious weed." .. ^ ` ;; h fij t •:;_ ,'•':.,.:;• out, expect a bill de- classified there is no scientifically analysis ;�`;, f" il:tr ?`"`r "^`'%: ..••.; t valid basis Their even � .. ..�;;� �.....�st '� ta:�,.,:.�.,:.._..:: receding paymr=rtt, for concluding that transgenic Kentucky goes on to document . ;;::tr�i. i�, a.j After all, when you ko bluegrass is or will becomea plant pest within that non-GM Ken- ->�:r.•::,;•�.::a-!:..• •ri �i/� •.k the meaning of the Plant k`�•.'��`�°`'�; >°,a:sr��s#� {?�s�,r��.5 �� rule the World,you can g f P nt Protection Act," tacky bluegrass has I�;'••�` ,;5.,r :.,•. ;., ,,....,t As Gurion-Sherman told Mother J , , r, exact whatever tribute Jones; already '' 'r' °�: ;:F` Yproventobea ',t° ,. .,r.;.:.• ;: �,;��''�;` , ' you want. A 12 HEALTH FREEDOM NEWS / SUMtrrER 2011