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Murashige, Laura
From: Mary DeVincent[druma99801@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 9:16 PM
To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us
Subject: Testimony for Bill 113 Council meeting on 10/15/13.
Attachments: Cathy Garcia testimony GMO 10 15 13.docx
Please accept the attached word document of written testimony in support of Bill 113 to ban
GMOs on Hawaii Island. Thank you.
Cathy V. Garcia
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10/14/2013
Testimony in favor of Bill 113, draft 2, to limit the spread of GMO crops on the Big
Island of Hawaii by Cathy V. Garcia
I am in support of Bill 113 even though this Bill doesn't adequately address or limit GMO
propagation to the extent necessary. I am definitely opposed to an Ad Hoc Committee
or any other strategy that would delay passage of a strong Bill.
Every one of you —right now--picture a person you love very much: your father or
mother, your husband or wife, brother or sister, or one of your children.
Now picture that loved one dying a slow, painful death from cancer or a liver or kidney
disease, lung disease, or disintegration of the stomach or colon. How does that make
you feel?
How do you feel when you learn that this precious person is dying because someone
poisoned their food and water?
Folks, this is a true story. This is happening right now to your family and to you.
More than 80% of processed foods in the U.S. contain GMO ingredients. There are two
major dangers from these GMO foods and the poisons they are sprayed with:
1. The GMO foods themselves have been extensively tested in other countries
around the world and found to be harmful to humans, livestock, honeybees, birds
and even the soil itself. Many countries have already banned GMO foods as
more research proves the dangerous effects of GMO plants.
2. The second danger comes from the deadly poisons that are sprayed onto the
GMO crops or genetically engineered into the plants themselves. The weed-
killer, Roundup is similar in composition to Agent Orange that was used in
Vietnam and the Korean War. It is a deadly poison. You sure wouldn't drink it or
pour it over your child's cereal. Yet tons of Round-Up and tons of deadly bug-
killing pesticide poisons are sprayed onto these GMO crops. These poisons are
sprayed right next to homes, towns, schools, and water supplies. You and your
family are breathing it, eating it, and drinking it every day.
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Now the huge chemical corporations-Dow, DuPont, Monsanto, Bayer and others who
develop and sell these GMO foods ignore all the scientific evidence that is arising
around the world. They tell you "Hey, we tested these GMO foods on rats for 90 days
and it didn't appear to harm them.
These companies tell you "Don't worry about all these poisons-- Roundup and
pesticides being sprayed on your food—being sprayed in the air around towns,
hospitals, and schools – poisons saturating the soil and killing all the helpful soil
bacteria — poisons washing down into the water supply and into your streams, rivers
and into the ocean. Don't worry, we tested these poisons with our own paid scientists
in 90 day trials and there is no harm done." Picture these poisons washing down from
the GMO cornfields into the Waipio Valley.
Friends, you need to stop and think, why would they tell you this?
Could it be their greed because they are making trillions (not billions but trillions) of
dollars profit by selling the GMO foods and the Roundup and pesticide poisons? And-
Oh yes! and profiting off the medicines that are needed as more and more Americans
get cancer, and intestinal diseases.
Right here in Hawaii they are growing corn engineered with human hepatitis virus.
Right here in Hawaii they are growing corn that has a human gene in it that contains
antibodies that attack human sperm. This corn acts as a contraceptive -- a birth control
that kills human sperm. This is what YOU are eating.
Strawberries, sugar cane, soybeans, rice and dozens of other common foods have
been altered with genes from spiders, jellyfish, and even a variety of human genes.
Some of these genes cause your digestive system's friendly healthy bacteria to become
immune to the antibodies commonly used in the treatment of disease.
These are facts. You can read them for yourself on the Internet or in the library or in
major medical journals from around the world. You won't read them in the Hilo Herald-
Tribune or any other materials from Monsanto and the chemical companies, because
they don't want you to know the truth.
It is very clear that these chemical companies are not trying to help you stay healthy or
live a long, happy life. It is up to you to protect yourself. It is up to you to protect your
tutu and aunties, uncles and keiki. This bill is just a tiny step. It will not stop the GMO
food production or the poisoning. But it is a beginning step.
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