Bleeding of Aloha: Ugliness of the anti-GMO movement in Hawaii

The last two years have been very tumultuous here in our state in regards to biotechnology. With a 12 month growing season, Hawaii is one of the great places for the large ag companies to run their breeding programs. With anti-GMO/anti-corporate ag sentiment on the rise, Hawaii has been the subject of the heavy hand of activism based in fear and misinformation. It hasn’t been pretty.

Here’s a summary of what’s happening across our state, county by county.

Last year, in the county of Kauai, the notorious anti-GMO bill to create buffer zones and disclosure for the spraying of pesticides was passed and then invalidated in federal court. This did not stop the mainland based SHAKA Movement from managing to garner some 9000 signatures to get an anti-GMO, anti-ag bill placed on the ballot in the county of Maui.

Maui County: GMO moratorium vote

mauiinitiative Despite many of the anti-GMO candidates losing in the primary election, groups like the Center for Food Safety are still working on stirring the pot in this county. Voters will get to decide on the issue on November 4. This has spurred the activists into some disturbing behaviors in our community here. There have been campaign signs vandalized and also stolen, which is not surprising at all.

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Gubernatorial candidate, Duke Aiona, had his sign spray painted on Molokai.
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The ballot initiative signs on Molokai that asked voters to vote no were changed to “yes” votes.
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A vote no sign was taken and frame broken on private property of Christy Gusman.
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Proud vandals on Instagram boasting their activities of re-doing the vote no signs on Maui.

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The activists have even resorted to defacing private property in the name of this movement. These are photos from the historic whaling town of Lahaina, where someone had some chemical fun with spray paint to get their message across.

These people who claim to malama the aina or “care for the land” and be pono, or “righteous”, apparently forget these thoughts as they go about “campaigning”. The sad thing is that long time local folks, like this 90 year old senior citizen, wind up cleaning up their messes.

Screenshot 2014-10-13 19.37.21 Not only was there graffiti and theft going on in Maui, Molokai and Lanai, but there were also reports of people being harassed by activists at the County Fair, who were pushing their brochures at people as they entered the fair, pressuring them to vote yes on the ballot initiative. How do I know that? My mom experienced it first hand at the fair. She had brochure shoved into her chest as she entered. She then proceeded to give that activist a piece of her mind.

Someone also took out a Craigslist post against Monsanto, as well. They took images of Monsanto workers and their families, and posted them as an ad to target the employees for harassment. (The ad was flagged and eventually removed.)

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Screenshot 2014-10-13 21.31.59Not only did they put out bogus ads to harass the biotech workers, fake profiles were also made of workers. Their images were stolen and then the harassers turned their names into heinous versions instead. Above you can see that someone took the profile picture of a biotech employee and used it to comment on the social media as the “Earthly Farmer”. (This is the same tactic done by the anti-GMO activists on Kauai!)

These SHAKA activists also took to Photoshopping biotech employees into demons for anti-GMO posters. Just look what they did to Dave Stoltzfus.

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What has been missing in considering  this initiative in Maui County has been recognizing the economics of a “temporary moratorium” to study the effects of GMOs and considering the economic impact a moratorium could have on those islands. A well known economics expert, Paul Brewbaker, was recently hired by the Maui Chamber of Commerce to study the effects of this proposed initiative there. What he found was that it would be devastating to this county, which is no surprise. It would hurt many local families. It’s estimated that unemployment may rise to some 25% on Molokai alone!

Story here: Hawaii News Now – KGMB and KHNL The anti-GMO activists sent their biology bachelor of science degree, newly minted “economic expert” State Senator Russell Ruderman, to supposedly debunk Dr. Brewbaker’s study. He did not disclose that he owns four natural health food stores on the Big Island and has no expertise in economics. He’s the same state senator that published articles in the Big Island newspaper “educating” people on Bt. This man is always overstepping his scope of expertise, which is typical of many anti-GMO activists. Just take a listen to the claims he makes on the morning news. The activists also decided to attack the Maui United Way because of the name they chose for themselves: Maui United. The MUW wanted to avoid confusion due to the similarities of the name and sent a cease and desist order for use of the name. These nasty folks tried to play the 6 degrees of separation and trashed the MUW for accepting a donation from Monsanto. mauiunitedwayYou can see the MUW president’s response in the photo just above. Maui County is definitely an ugly place at this moment with this heated debate between those versed in science and those who prefer to reject the evidence.  

Kauai: Remnants of the ugly storm linger

Kauai was definitely the poster child of a dysfunctional community last year with the entire anti-GMO movement centered there. Key county council members wanted to pass their flawed Bill 2491, regardless of its validity. That set off a firestorm of discord. As expected, the Federal Court recently invalidated the law. As expected, that didn’t end the vitriol. None of the studies or evidence collected (Final_Report_Kauai_Air__3_15_2013_submitted-2) to refute the claims being made were ever considered by the activists. The constant battle cry there is “stop the poisoning”, a battle cry unsupported by the evidence. The story there is one of manipulation by the mainland funded Hawaii SEED and key leaders in the community. The county has decided to appeal the bill and continue to drain the funds to push this faulty law through. It’s of no surprise that in the primary election, the top vote getters were not the anti-GMO candidates, but the pro-ag supporters. Despite the claims by the anti-GMO crowd of speaking for the majority, the are in fact just a vocal and active minority, with no broad base of support. They are wearing out their welcome. The pro-ag candidates that did receive majority votes were the target of vandalism. This is unfortunate,  but once again, not surprising. The vitriol has also spilled out into the community in public places with the activists’ graffiti of “stop the poisoning” sprayed all over the place. Once again, they have fun with chemicals in the form spray paint with no regard for the environment or for others.

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Kauai County Council Member candidate, Arryl Kaneshiro, had his banner slashed. His family are long time farmers on Kauai and pro-agriculture, which made him a target of the anti-GMO activists.
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Another candidate for the county council, Arthur Brun, has his sign vandalized also. He is also an employee at a seed company, Syngenta.
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This is what tourists and other visitors get to see when they stop by the historic menehune fishpond.

 barcasign Signs on utility poles are against the law for safety reasons but MMA fighter mayoral candidate Dustin Barca apparently has no regard for this law. He and his followers are demanding others follow their laws, but can’t even follow the laws in existence already. He has his election signs up on public utility poles and on county owned lifeguard shacks.

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A bumper sticker is vandalism on public property but following the law means nothing to this mayoral candidate.

Then there is Kauai County Council Member, Tim Bynum, showing his lack of emotional control and maturity at public meetings. He has tried to initiate more anti-ag laws here and seems to be losing it when others don’t seem to agree with this tactic.  //
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The damage to Kauai’s community is done and it’s clear that it isn’t going to be changing any time soon with these types of leaders in office. The community remains divided and the ugliness is still evident.

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Oahu: What the North Shore drags up

The latest fiasco with the anti-GMO movement ends with Oahu and the North Shore Neighborhood Board meeting last month. My dad and brother attened and from what they told me, the meeting was dominated by the anti-GMO activists. Ashley Lukens, The Center for Food Safety’s director was also there to stir the pot even further with her lofty agenda. The activists were dictating to the community how they wanted farmers to farm despite not being farmers themselves. There were only two farmers brave enough to speak up. The vitriol in the room was so bad that the resolution was withdrawn.

At yet another meeting, a week after the regular board meeting, the North Shore Neighborhood Board Ag committee met to amend the resolution that was discussed prior based on the testimony received. There were about 30-40 activists there who were very rude and hostile and accused the chair of being “a Monsanto lobbyist and having a conflict of interest because she worked for the Chamber of Commerce.” The Chamber receives membership dues and donations from Monsanto as they from 225 other members. The NS Chamber is a 501 c3 and cannot lobby which was clearly explained to everyone in attendance there. A committee member made a motion to kill the resolution and eventually it was seconded and passed, unfortunately. The baby was thrown out with the bathwater. Even an anti-GMO supporter felt that their supporters were rude.

Activists have become the loudest voices there, but won’t allow any type of discussion on this issue. According to one member of the chamber:

“I was verbally assaulted by an anti GMO guy about the corporate brick for Monsanto in our walkway a year or two ago, which was a fundraiser to restore the Haleiwa Mutual Telephone Exhange Building, the North Shore Chamber’s home and North Shore Visitor Center. Within a week the brick was gone/stolen. The anti GMO folks were also very rude and hostile at the recent NS Neighborhood Board Ag Committee meeting, making a personal attack on me, accusing me of being a Monsanto lobbyist and having a conflict of interest.”

Other examples of obnoxious things that these activists do include these immature behaviors:

Also at the Haleiwa Town Christmas Parade the last two years, which the Chamber sponsors/organizes, they have dressed up in hazmat suits and inserted themselves into the parade between Monsanto’s monster tractor and a cub scout troop, probably scaring the kids.

Candidate signs have also been reported stolen, and it isn’t a surprise that the person who is losing them is a pro-ag supporter. Kent Fonoimoana, who is running for the House of Representatives in District 47, banned me from his campaign page for questioning his support of the GMO label and pointing out his alliances with the Sierra Club and Earthjustice. He even requested a tour of my dad’s farm only to later that that he’d support farmers but still wanted a state law to label GMOs. This guy is so disingenuous that I’m not surprised that his allies, the anti-GMO activists, have decided to steal signs from people’s yards. If they have done it elsewhere, it’s pretty likely the same bunch of people.

Big Island: Ugliness remains

As the court hearing for the anti-GMO Bill 113 is awaiting judgment, the same pattern of ugliness is occurring on the Big Island. The contentious race is between a newcomer, Ron Gonsalves and Monsanto obsessed Margaret Wille, a sitting Big Island county council member. Gonsalves has had signs go missing and recently had a sign damaged. It’s all too clear that this is the same work, over and over again, by the same activists across our islands.

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Even with the devastation of Hurricane Iselle, the activists didn’t give up their anti-aloha behaviors, disrupting rallies that were there to provide information to farmers. They were not there to help these farmers, rather there to harass them instead.

Aloha: Redefined by activism is ugly

Our state was known as the Aloha state and I’m really starting to wonder if that is what we really remain. From the looks of our communities, it looks as if there is a new brand of aloha being cultivated here and personally, I don’t like it at all. We will never move forward if only attacks and fear are perpetuated in our communities. I hope voters make it loud and clear to these “leaders” that this is not our future.

Joni Kamiya-Rose is a farmer’s daughter, health professional, wife and mother. She grew up on a papaya farm in Hawaii and blogs at Hawaii Farmer’s Daughter. Follow her on @HIFarmersDtr

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104 thoughts on “Bleeding of Aloha: Ugliness of the anti-GMO movement in Hawaii”

  1. It sounds to me like some of these actions are getting pretty close to eco-terrorism. And BTW, isn’t destroying or defacing election candidate signs a felony in Hawaii? It is in many states.

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    • And not only in Hawaii; in ALL of the states where the hype is fever-pitched. Definitely organic guys behind it. So sad, so hypocritical. (whaaaa, is their mutagenesis and irradiation safer than GE? Why is there dead-air silence on that fact?)

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        • I’ve talked to hundreds of “Joni’s” and the common thread seems to be Inconvenient Truth: that is, an attitude of “I have my opinions, and I am gonna find some kind of factoids to justify them.” It’s an anti-science attitude that is very sad.

          I would LOVE to hear from a “Joni” or a “Ted” on why they think organic mutagenesis / irradiation of seeds is okay, what their scientific standard is for deeming them “safe,” and why they think mutagenically-produced foods shouldn’t be labeled, in case there is yet another group of people out there who “simply want to know” what’s in their food — including mutagenically-produced organic seeds.

          Not that I think there are any probs with them, even tho they haven’t had near the scrutiny of GE crops, mind you…. but, if our reductio ad absurdem arguments are to take precident here, then don’t I have the “right to know” what’s in my organic food?

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          • Quite right. You do indeed have the same “right to know.”
            And while we’re on that topic, I would stress that consumers have the right to know that organic food is fertilized with manure that isn’t always fully composted, and that this goes in with alarming regularity due to the fact that there is no testing done to ensure manure is fully composted.

  2. Thank god people give a shit about their food. About time. O.M.G. BECKIE!!!!! Someone spray painted a sign. O.M.G. BECKIE!!!!! Someone shoved a brochure in my face!!!! I could have gotten a paper cut a bled to death. Lol.

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      • I have spent dozens of hours reading the Science, that’s why I am voting YES. And asking the the Chemical companies to prove it is safe.
        Here is something I read recently that made me wonder

        On February 22, 2002, Monsanto was found guilty of “negligence, wantonness, suppression of truth, nuisance, trespass, and outrage.” Under Alabama law, the rare claim of outrage requires conduct “so outrageous in character and extreme in degree as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency so as to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in civilized society”.
        This begins to explain all the lies that has come from the PRO GMO
        Shame on them

        I care about my food, I want it to not be poisonous and be nutritionally safe

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          • GMO’s are design by chemical companies so they can spray LARGE AMOUNTS of WEED KILLER CALLED ROUND UP

          • Statements like this are extremely disingenuous. The dangers of PCBs were known and published by scientists since the 1930s, and that picture is using a PR statement, not a scientific statement. The complete opposite is true in relating to GM crops in production. The overwhelming weight of scientific evidence is that no harm to humans through toxicity from the regulated GM crops has occurred or will occur. The PR spin that opposes the science is coming from activist groups. Essentially, anti-GM activist groups are the equivalent to Sulitia and Big Tobacco in this regard.

        • “I have spent dozens of hours reading…” and Jon Entine and his merry band of lunatics want you to spend many more hours arguing here. Recommendation:stop wasting your time with this honey pot.

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  3. sad to see the people of my home state resort to this kind of domestic terrorism (really, this is what it is). Vandalism? Really people?

    Hopefully, saner heads will come out on top, otherwise, we are going to be “run” by a bunch of ignorant and science-illiterate politicians.

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    • There are dozens of reports of Yes GMO Sign and Yes Candidates signs and flyers being vandalized.
      This is politics, what to do?

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        • Our vote yes yard sign has been vandalized 3 times. I was also nearly run off the road when someone didn’t like my vote yes bumper sticker. My 11 year old son and 6 month old son were in the car.

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      • Pretty much all of the vandalism and hate is coming from the activists. There are several news stories on that, yet not a single one about farmers or pro-GMO going out and trashing election signs – why is that?

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  4. “Let me ask you,” Barca quipped. “Is a job worth a life? We’re dealing with the largest chemical corporations in the history of Earth. Anywhere they’ve been in the world, they’ve left nothing but death and destruction.

    What we’re dealing with here on maui is one of the largest chemical corporations on our planet. Practically anywhere they’ve been in the world, they’ve left nothing but death and destruction. What makes any of you think it will be any different here in Hawaii???????
    The genetically engineered seeds (GMO) monsanto and other AGRI-CORPS produce are designed to increase pesticide usage, not decrease it. Their own pesticides, that is. Sold by companies that are… remember… first and foremost, chemical manufacturing companies, with profit as their sole reason for existence. Feeding the starving world? Marketing strategy, nothing more. These companies exist to sell chemicals, and pesticides. THIS IS ALL THEY CARE ABOUT. Ruining Peoples lives, health and well being???? I am so sad to say for them it’s Just the cost of doing business

    Thats why we on Maui County are politely asking to make sure what THEY, the chemical companies are doing is safe for the soil, the people and our children

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    • Death and destruction?

      You should get out and go visit an American farm that makes use of modern technology sometime. It will be easy enough for you to find such a farm. More than 2.5 million American and Canadian farmers use GMO technology alongside other scientific innovations to bring us the safest most affordable food in the world.

      Death and destruction… you’re a special kind of moron if you believe that my friend.

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      • I have a farm in Maui, I do not need to visit any farms

        Please go to ALABAMA where On February 22, 2002, Monsanto was found guilty of “negligence, wantonness, suppression of truth, nuisance, trespass, and outrage.” Under Alabama law, the rare claim of outrage requires conduct “so outrageous in character and extreme in degree as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency so as to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in civilized society”.

        Then after your travels and i hope you talk to some of the 10’s of thousands of victims
        Than ask me if I am wrong in just my right to

        ASK IF IT IS SAFE for monsanto to puts dozens and dozens toxic of chemicals in the soil near schools, tourist and people

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          • Designed to Fail, Chemical Agriculture, Tech, Genetic Modification, Human-Animal Hybrids? One of the most important things to remember when dealing with companies such as Monsanto, Dow, DuPont, etc., is that they are first and foremost chemical manufacturing companies. The genetically engineered seeds (GMO) they produce are designed to increase pesticide usage, not decrease it. Their own pesticides, that is. Sold by companies that are… remember… first and foremost, chemical manufacturing companies, with profit as their sole reason for existence. Feeding the starving world? Marketing strategy, nothing more. These companies exist to sell chemicals, and pesticides are a mainstay.

          • You’ve evidently never heard of all the non-proprietary, non-corporate GMOs. In fact, the first GMO was developed by a public university and has been available in grocery stores for almost 20 years.

          • You use all sorts of technology on your farm. But you’ve arbitrarily decided to reject genetic engineering, and so you vilify it by pretending it’s cursed by Satan.

      • Thanks for the compliment, now my question to you is are you getting paid to drink the GMO cool-aid and if so, I hope a LOT In order to spread lies and miss-information or are you just NOT EDUCATED to what is happening by the AGRI-CORPS?

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        • SAS – Shill Alert Syndrome! That generally signals the end of the discussion, as it proves that you have no other facts or argument to present.

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          • The genetically engineered seeds (GMO) monsanto and other AGRI-CORPS produce are designed to increase pesticide usage, not decrease it. Their own pesticides, that is. Sold by companies that are… remember… first and foremost, chemical manufacturing companies, with profit as their sole reason for existence. Feeding the starving world? Marketing strategy, nothing more. These companies exist to sell chemicals, and pesticides. THIS IS ALL THEY CARE ABOUT. Ruining Peoples lives, health and well being???? I am so sad to say for them it’s Just the cost of doing business

          • That’s factually not true. One of the two most popular GM crops are called Bt, and they all but eliminate the use of most insecticides. According to the USDA’s latest report last spring, the use of GMO Bt crops has resulted in a 100-fold decrease in the use of insecticides over the past 15 years coinciding with the use of GM crops. According to independent and government research, herbicide resistant GMOs have resulted in a slight increase in the net volume of some pesticides but a sizable drop in per acre usage of chemicals and a sizable reduction in the overall toxicity–a net plus for peoples lives, health and well being. Perhaps you need to actually read independent government and independent global science organizations before you post..or shout, as you did.

          • Insects eat it, and die. Kinda like if you feed your dog a bunch of chocolate and raisins… But people can chow down on chocolate and raisins.

          • That makes no sense at all. They are designed so that one or two pesticides can do what used to take more and much more toxic pesticides used to do. What bothers me a lot about the anti-GMO activists is that they have zero alternatives – it is not like any of these pesticides would go away if GMO crops disappeared, in fact usage would probably rise dramatically.

    • No mention of any chemicals Monsanto makes, just fixed nitrogen, which could also come from organic fertilizers. Again, the lack of GMO’s i your diet has affected your eyesight.

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    • Does Monsanto make nitrogen fertilizers? Does Monsanto sell any fertilizers at all? Where in that report is any product made by Monsanto even mentioned?

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    • Why would we listen to “Science” from someone calling themselves “The Emerald Triangle” when their icon is actually a square?
      If they can’t master basic geometry . . . . . .

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    • Ah, there’s a factoid worth commenting on! “spraying gmos on businesses and homes.” Wow.

      Uh, GE crops have the trait inside them. That’s basic fact #1. And the herbicides sprayed on these GE crops (mainly Roundup) aren’t a GE product; the CROP is genetically engineered. Roundup isn’t a “gmo” sprayed on your house or your business.

      (Nazi Germany? Wow; pretty far stretch, dude — fearmongering and conspiracy theorist stuff at its best)

      And if you want to talk to our farmers, contact your local or state Farm Bureau and ask ’em what they USED to spray on their crops before genetic engineering, to get rid of weeds; Roundup, my pal, is much less toxic, by hundreds of times, than Atrazine and other REALLY nasty stuff farmers used to have to use. (oh, I guess they could hire migrant labor and get thousands of people in their fields to pull weeds by hand, if that’s your suggested alternative option to getting rid of weeds…)

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      • spraying the phrase, “GMO”, on businesses and homes. That’s much like spraying the word, “Jude”, on businesses and homes back in 1930’s Germany.

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  5. These are GOOD Chemicals! They are GREAT for Hawaii’s Environment! They increase the health of Hawaii! Chemical Food and New Biological Foods are YUMMY! I LOVE FRANKENFOOD!
    2013 RESTRICTED USE
    PESTICIDES USAGE Sprayed on Thousands of Acres of Experimental GMO Crops. This does not include chemical fertilizers etc.
    MAUI COUNTY ( MAUI AND MOLOKAI OPERATIONS ) http://www.co.maui.hi.us/documents/50/52/Monsanto_HI_2013_Annual_Report_201403051442203435.pdf
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    Permethrin
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    Atrazine
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    (+) cis/trans 3-
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    O-Dimethyl
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    phosphorothioate
    Permethrin
    Simazine
    Lambda-cyhalothrin,
    Chlorantraniliprole
    Lambda-cyhalothrin
    Lambda-cyhalothrin

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  6. When you read about these Anti-GMO people you realize that there are a number of people with WAY too much time on their hands and not enough sense to understand the issue they are so passionate about. They just want to DO something, even if it is stupid.

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    • Exactly! And in states with the badly-flawed “label gmos” initiatives, proponents have said, “Well, it’s a start.” Huh? A bad law is a bad law, and you can’t fix a train wreck. If they were to sit down and just … read, talk to a molecular biologist, talk to a GE farmer, and think about things, maybe …. oh, I’m writing fiction again. Wishful thinking, I guess. The default on this issue is shoot from the hip and ask questions (or not) later.

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  7. Okay, folks, a wee bit of a science lesson here for you. Re: the argument that “gmos aren’t proven to be safe” — that’s not how scientific / statistically relevant truths or facts (as best we know them) are done.

    You can’t, in either good science or statistics, “prove” that X is Y (ie, in our example, that gmos are “safe”). All you can do is prove that it’s highly statistically unlikely that X is NOT Y. (i.e. in our example, showing that it’s highly statistically unlikely that gmos are NOT safe.)

    Let’s make a clearer example. Prove to me that the sun will rise tomorrow. Uh, you can’t. But you CAN show me that, statistically, it’s highly unlikely that the sun WON’T rise tomorrow.

    (for statistics geeks, that’s called “rejecting the null hypothesis” — in this case, the null hypothesis is that the sun WON’T rise tomorrow, and we can with all reasonable likelihood, reject that premise)

    So puh-leez, anti-gmo luddites: come up with a better argument than “gmos haven’t been proven to be safe.”

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  8. I would love to be a “Monsanto paid puppet” or “big ag shill …..” wow; that would be cool! But then again, it must be so rare for these shrill activists to even be able to conceptualize or imagine that there are actually literate, well-read, pro-science people out there that a) don’t agree with them; and b) don’t loathe technology.

    The anti-gmo side is so virulent, it’s like vampires who shrink at the light. They hate science (failed it maybe in school) and hate the rest of us who love science and seek out answers to questions about the world.

    Actually, I probably should be getting $$$ from Big Organic (a $39 Billion / year industry, dudes) because I’m repeatedly saying, over and over and over: “Hey, ignore science if you like. Whateva. But if you want to avoid GMO’s, then eat at Chipotle and Ben and Jerry’s. Buy certified organic or Non-GMO verified food.” (Now, where’s my big check from Big Organic, for being their “shill” ?)

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  9. A minority calling themselves a majority? Shades of Bolsheviks past!

    A small group of activists hijacked the largest country on the planet during the Russian revolution, simply by calling themselves “The Majority Party” or in Russian “The Bolsheviks”!
    Now we have a green revolution, and the Bolsheviks are at it again.

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  10. I’ve had my vote yes yard sign vandalized 3 times. I was also driving with my 6-month old and 11 year old and the guy driving next to me didn’t like my vote YES bumper sticker and nearly ran us off the road.

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  11. You know what is unbelievable is when you see an anti-GMO person at the check out stand at the grocery store complaining about the GMO’s while at the same time they are buying a pack of cigarettes. True story and that pretty much sums it up.

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