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Murashige, Laura
From: Karen Murray [misskarenmurray @gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 2:37 AM
To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us
Subject: Support Bill 113
I'm writing in support of Bill 113. I have been shopping and then became a member of our local coop
since the 70s and generally I have a live and let live attitude. There are things however, that we try to do
as a society such as conserving and not using everything up. Leaving something for our children and
theirs. We do not truly earn that vacation in Vegas, if what we do to earn it hurts or displaces others, if
what we do for it is not pono.
Letting in more and more GMOs, is like letting in more and more exotic diseases. We cannot undo it, we
cannot remove its effect on the environment completely if we decide it was wrong.
Large monocropping practices in itself is endangering our ecosystem with sterile, dustbowl creations.
The large chemical biotech companies that produce GMOs would not be satisfied with smaller
diversified farming practices. Nor can many of their "products" tolerate live soil. Their "products"
usually require sterilizing large areas of land to be profitable.
If we love good food like honey and fruit that needs bees for pollination, please consider at least this one
small aspect(please watch this video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY7iATJVCso
Mahalo.
Karen Murray
CD
Comm. No. 3 93.5/9
Ref.To:
Ref. Date NOV 1 9 2013
11/21/2013