HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0489.012 2018-2020 Murashige, Laura
From: USA Vegan <usavegan@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2019 2:31 AM
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To: Council Testimony
Subject: bill 101
glyphosate causes cancers! please make big island safe from this toxic horrific chemical that people are
spraying on lawns! we have been using vinegar in our sprayers and it works on weeds.
thank you county for using goats to clear brush at hilo soccer field.
Bless you all for caring about peoples health, and stand against the lies and power and corruption of Monsanto
and their lobbies who got congress to pass Agric chemicals that make us all sick. we should have learned with
agent orange against conscripted USA soldiers and innocent men women and children in villages in viet nam to
not trust Monsanto. its name means one saint, and we have been tricked so Monsanto gets power and wealth.
God bless Hawaii and our Council members.
Aloha Honorable County of Hawaii Councilmembers.
Please vote in favor of Bill 101 to limit the County's use of chemical herbicides.
Children have unique susceptibilities to the potential toxicity of herbicides, yet they are still being exposed
every day when they go to County parks or walk or ride along the roads.
Long-term exposure is linked with increased risks of cancer including non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, as we learned
from the recent visit by Dewayne Lee Johnson, the school groundskeeper who won the lawsuit against
Monsanto for the connection between Roundup and his cancer. It is also connected to miscarriages, attention
deficit disorder and reduced production of sex hormones. It can also trigger aggressive breast cancer when
combined with other risk factors.
Studies indicate that glyphosate can contaminate streams, which empty into our oceans, and affect sea life
including fish and coral. Problems with drift of glyphosate herbicides occur frequently.
Fortunately, the County has chosen alternatives to toxic chemicals, such as the choice to use goats to clear brush
at the Hilo Soccer Field. It was more cost-effective than regular maintenance, and safe for our communities,
streams and coastline ecosystems,too! Let's expand these non-toxic alternatives, and transition away from the
use of toxic chemicals for land management.
Mahalo,
Barry and Alisa Robinson,
formerly of Kopoho beach Lots
formerly RR in Hilo Hawaii. Comm. Nol
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