The Unsustainable Truth Behind the Hawaii GMO Free Movement.
The Hawaii Farmers Daughter nails this one. Great post!
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As Farmers brace for Hurricane Iselle, I have a dream for Hawaii…What if?
The rain woke me, followed by a 4.2 magnitude earthquake. In that hazy period, I realized I needed a dream. I dream big but “What if”….
What if the hurricanes wash away all the judgement and fear that has been delivered to Hawaii’s shores.
What if we could begin again with Aloha, respect and kindness?
Could we do this Hawaii? Would you commit to this, Would fear mongering organizations like Center for Food Safety, GMO Free, The Shaka Movement, Babes against Biotech, GMO’s and Freedom and Hawaii Seed…Would you all just leave or shut your doors and start listening? Could we all commit to that? We understand there is fear and questions. Many facts that are available are lost in this noise, let’s commit to listen up Hawaii!!!
What if we could all step back and listen? Will you commit to listening to the farmers who help feed and sustain Hawaii? Our papaya growers, the ranchers who produce grass fed cattle, the Dairy Industry and Big Island Dairy, the vegetable growers like the wise Richard Ha and many others? Consumers have choices in their food system, and the activists have freedom of speech, farmers have the freedom to farm and feed us…Just because we can speak does not mean we should, sometimes the silence and listening is the step to common ground.
What if the anti-gmo free, funded activists agreed to stop hating on farmers, judging them without understanding the reality of farming in Hawaii. What if they agreed to stop using fear to push their agenda? What if we agreed to cease fire?
What if we invoked Rule # 1 – Do No Harm … Dreaming Big is Good. Dreaming is a form of planning and maybe just maybe after we rid out this storm we can find common ground for Hawaii and stop this ideological food fight battle. I have a Dream Hawaii, Are you willing to help?
How I hacked into the Maui Voter list Published online by Anti Gmo Shaka group
Bruce Douglas states pro gmo, but for the record we’re Pro agriculture bloggers hacked the groups computers…Bull!
How did myself and others including County and State officials hack into the list.
Simple, we clicked the button or entered the unsecured Url and hit enter! Even my monkey could do it, well if I had a monkey, but you get my point!
What was that URL Shakamovement.prg/voters.htm. BAM.
How hard was that peeps it wasn’t any effort at all. His statements are to cover their okole because the citizens of Hawaii should be pissed about this breech. For $50 they have endangered peoples lives and their safety, are your kidding me..Someone deserves to be held accountable and that is everyone involved with SHAKA, even their anom investors…
So now we’re hackers, no…just agvocates who are ag nerds. geeks who love food, farmers and Hawaii. We’re tired of our communities being fed fear. geeks who type and follow the anti gmo money while its hell bent on destroying Hawaii and make it their version of utopia!
Seriously folks this is has gone too far…This was no simple mistake. They have 200 to 500 petitioners working and they are paying $5 per signor to hound the public…Really how desperate are they! Lets end this nonsense, PUSHBACK Hawaii and stop the Food fights and Fear mongering…
Article source for Bruce Douglas statement from Hawaii News Now
Just Label the Hawaii Papaya, Why?
Why must we label it Hawaii? There are multiple labeling bills in the State legislature this session. Again my question is, Why label it Hawaii and my focus is centered on a local produced agricultural crop the Hawaii Papaya.
The Hawaii Papaya is a whole food, a super food actually that is not only healthy but it provides affordable, safe, nutritious fruit for our local community and its an exportable crop that sustains our families and returns dollars to our economy. Why should our farmers be forced to label their fruit? because it’s seed has a biotech beginning? We all know that, having a biotech papaya that is resistant to the papaya ring spot virus aka PSRV; saved the Hawaii Papaya Industry. Do you know that 200-400 small minority farmers depend on this crop to feed their families and they help feed Hawaii?
This bill would require Hawaii farmers to label their papayas, the boxes, the transportation bins and boxes and at the grocery store or farmers market bin. I often see and purchase them 3 or 4 for $1 dollar at the local farmers markets. Yes, thats right the best freakin buy for a buck you can find in Hawaii. Now this exact same fruit if sold by a restaurant, grocery store or any type of food server even if at the same farmers market but sold scooped out and ready to eat, would NOT require any sort of label. The thing is the ready to eat papaya is normally between $2.50 and up, depending on where you buy it. How is that right?
This is not a food safety issue, this bill and other’s like it are scare tactics to force consumers into buying alternatives means and costing us up too 50% more. Just say NO….
A food labeling bill like Senate Bill #2521 only hurts these farmers. In fact it hurts all small food processors and specialty food producers as well. Bills such as this only hurt consumers, farmers and our wallets. Submit testimony opposing this bill today!
SB 2521 Labeling Bill ~ Testimony needed to oppose SB 2521 – This impacts farmers and food affordability for kama’aina!
Email Testimony to: HTHtestimony@capitol.hawaii.gov
Senate Bill 2521 Bill Summary
All food products will be required to be labeled “Produced with Genetic Engineering”
Includes all food, processed, raw and fresh foods
Boxes and transportation containers would need to be labeled Genetically Engineered
Fresh products such as papaya would need to be labeled on the shelf and transportation boxes.
No food or raw agricultural commodity can be sold without being labeled. Which conflicts with current FDA guidelines which exempts Raw and Fresh Fruits, Vegetables and Fish from Federal labeling standards.
Exempts
Cheese, yogurt and any product produced with enzymes
Liquid Milk products
Restaurants and food for immediate consumption
Medical Food
State-level proposals to mandate biotech labeling hurt consumers, small business and farmers!
Mandatory labeling of foods produced using biotechnology would unnecessarily result in higher food costs for consumers – especially those least able to afford it.
The state-borne costs to enforce mandatory labeling provisions may be in the millions of dollars.
Analysis of California’s Proposition 37, for example, estimates annual food costs for an average-income family would increase by approximately $400.
Consumers already have a choice in the marketplace:
Consumers who prefer to purchase food products that don’t contain any biotechnology-derived ingredients, can choose foods labeled “certified organic” or “non GMO.”
We support the Voluntary labeling of food products, as long as those labels don’t infer any difference in healthfulness or safety.
Advocates of mandatory labeling laws falsely believe food safety is at issue:
Foods and food crops produced using biotechnology are among the most reviewed, studied, scrutinized and regulated products in the world.
Scientific authorities such as the National Academies of Science, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Health Organization, the American Medical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of science have looked at HUNDREDS of scientific studies and have concluded that foods with biotech-derived ingredients do not pose any more risk to people than any other foods.
FARMERS Wanted in Hawaii For Growing Safe, Affordable Food $1000 Reward
Live from Hawaii County. They made the registration a reality today.
The interesting part is they added a voluntary registration for all agriculture producers…hmmm They also waived the fee, yippee that should help, insert sarcastic laugh here.
Fact Farmers should not be registered like criminals for growing safe, affordable, legal crops as provided by the Constitution of the Unites States of America. Nor should Counties place undue burdens on small farmers who are already struggling.
Bill 113 which is now a law Thanks to politicians who did not perform due diligence and passed the bill. They failed to ask the real questions, yet onward they went. Now here we are. Growing biotech crops are not poison, there is no harm. The rainbow papaya has been grown on Hawaii Island for 16 years straight by hundreds of small family farmers. They have done no harm. They provide a high quality affordable fruit staple for our community . Yes 3 for a buck $1.00 is the best dollar menu ever! They export the worlds greatest papaya that supports our community, they are local food!
The deadline for farmer registration is March 5th, 2014, what then Mayor Kenoi will you send the GMO police out?
Here is the link to Hawaii County online registration process for gmo, biotech, organic, conventional agricultural producers. What do you think should Farmers be registered like criminals. I thought only sex offenders were registered, shouldn’t a criminal have to break the law first?
Poisening Paradise; Is Hawaii Ground zero?
Poisening Paradise, agriculture, farmers and ranchers are not poisoning paradise in Hawaii. We are ground zero for activism. We have been targeted and a army of paid activists have been deployed and funded through out Hawaii. They use fear and lies to poison the minds of our community against food and agriculture production, as if feeding Hawaii is a bad thing!
How do we prove that it’s a small but very vocal minority who have no moral speed bumps and regularly harass farmers online, in person and threaten people. They use the same fear and hate against politicians who are not experienced and sway votes based on re-election versus the facts. yet I digressed, how do we prove its a vocal minority? Fact is they represent less than 5% of the population of Hawaii yet act with mob like virtues. The majority wants nothing to do with this battle, they do not want to be part of the hate, fear or ugliness this vocal minority attacks anyone with if you dare not drink their kool aid. I don’t blame them, it’s often hard to ask them to wade in when you know it’s not a pretty place but to protect Hawaii and our way of life, our culture we must start speaking up!
Standing United is the only way we will ride this dip…Taking an offensive approach to educating the community and helping our politicians and community understanding agriculture is our best defense. It will not turn the tide over night but it will help and calling out the lies and tactics of paid activism is key.
The poisoning of paradise is being conducted by mainland millionaires who are infusing large amounts of cash under the guise of trusts and non profits. They have hired local activists and flown in others to fan the flames and push their agenda on Hawaii. Using our culture against us, we do not do business like his in Hawaii it’s without aloha and respect. Monsanto, the seed industry, agriculture and Hawaii’s farmers and ranchers are not the problem…The problem is paid activism by a vocal minority being funded by a few wealthy people and using fear to sway public opinion.; they are the real poison in paradise.
Biotechnology is safe and it’s proven…..Fear and myths are poisoning Hawaii but each one of us has a choice, we can choose to not drink the fear and lies and come to the table and discuss this like adults and decide for ourselves not be a social media scientist…We each have the right to choose but let’s choose based on facts not lies.
We’re Farmers not sex offendars
Really how dare you attack another small papaya grower? Who bought the machetes who destroyed over 100 trees this morning?
While the Hawaii Papaya Industry Association was gathering for their annual meeting and Mayor Billy Kenoi was speaking one farmer was absent; he was at his field with police overlooking destruction of his trees. A sad discovery awaited his trees had been chopped down!This is not okay, activism has gone to far now you have turned into eco terrorists! This is wrong!
We’re farmers not sex offenders, We will not register like a criminal…..
The criminals are the activists who have turned into ecoterrorists. Register the activists not farmers.
The Hawaii County Council is asking farmers to register their locations; why would they? Taking away their constitutional rights and making farm locations public access is a threat to our farmers sustainability and opens them to additional eco terrorist attacks. No were drawing the line “we will not register like a sex offender! Brenda Ford and Margaret Willie, I hope you here this, No No no and we will fight for our right to farm in Hawaii!
We work hard every day to grow affordable safe food for Hawaii….We are not causing Harm your grandstanding is harming us. Ag matters and Farmers care, clearly a few council members do not care about the harm they are causing…
End this non-sense NOW! Kill Bill 109 & 113 …. do what is right and understand farmers and agriculture before you start a public battle… DO NO HARM and this is harming farmers!
The Ford and Willie Show presents Swinging Smith
Swing Smith aka Jeffrey M. Smith was the Ford & Willie Show’s star witness on Monday for the hearing on Hawaii County Bill 113 effectively a GMO ban which will kill and strangle agriculture and any public research being done for niche agriculture crops on Hawaii Island…Let’s not forget it will slaughter the livestock industries options!
Was it Brenda Ford or Margaret Willie who organized the Skype call, we had to endure almost 1 hour of his nonsense, it was pure testimony not expert witness since he clearly is NOT an expert….His lack of credentials are below for your amusement, “Swing dancing” I particularly like that one, does that mean I’m a scientist because I can isolate DNA from a papaya with dish soap?
We have established he is an expert in Swing dancing and a self-appointed activist and gmo expert with ABSOLUTELY no
training or credentials..unless you consider yogic flying, by the way WTF is Yogic flying? If he can fly why wasn’t he at the actual Council meeting instead of Arizona? Which brings us to another point who is running this circus of a County Council debacle dubbed by many in the community as the “Ford & Willie Show” ?
Who wrote Margaret’s’ questions? That wasn’t the Willie we saw the previous hearings? Is it Nancy Redfeather who reportedly claims the initial authorship of Bill 113 or maybe it was Melanie Bondera, Una Greenway or the Occupy movement; we’re not sure who authored it and frankly do not care for it’s a train wreck for Hawaii Island, a potential legal disaster and an economic wreck if passed. The only congratulations the Ford & Willie Show get is in orchestrating Bills that are ripping this community apart and threaten our Food Security and food sustainability.
Farmers and Ranchers in Hawaii deserve the right and choice to grow safe, affordable food! Why must we become an agritourism stop and only grow high-end specialty crops to feed food elitists & not the average working man or woman; which is exactly who we are and who most farmers strive to feed, their community!
We do not need laws to legislate the economy and consumer choices that occurs on its own and not at the Hawaii county Council podium. Council members are elected to serve their community. Start serving YOUR entire community and let’s stop the “Ford & Willie Show” and cease any re-runs. Calling experts such as an Ob/gyn who is against vaccinations and Jeffrey Smith make the Hawaii county council look like a farce….
Jeffrey M. Smith lots of juicy bits below but nothing credible except a model for making activism a career that seems to pay him well. I know ranchers who would like to learn this Yogic flying that way they don’t have to open gates and use the pick up trucks. Next time Jeffrey why not fly in since your such an expert. I’m not sorry for the sarcasm this is beyond old, there were 8 Public University scientists who sat in the audience only to be ignored while we listened to this type of baloney!
Cease the “Ford & Willie Show” it is making Hawaii look bad, hurting our Farmers and costing taxpayers money!
Swing Jeffrey M. Smith (born 1956) is a self-published American author, independent film producer, professional dance instructor and former politician known for his work in transcendental meditation and yogic flying, Swing dance/Lindy Hop swing dance and Activism|activism in opposition to Genetically modified organisms (GMOs). He ran for the U.S. Congress as a candidate for the Natural Law Party (United_States), has authored several books, DVDs and a movie on the dangers of genetic engineering,[1] serves on the Genetic Engineering Committee of the Sierra Club, and is a frequent conference speaker at advocacy, alternative health, organic and natural products conferences and his work is promoted on such nationally syndicated television programs as The Dr. Oz Show. Smith claims to have a background in communications and marketing,[2] has served as an occasional contributor to his local newspaper[3] and attended school at the Maharishi Institute of Management in Fairfield, Iowa where he resides.
Career
There are few published details on Smith’s professional life prior to his joining with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi movement and affiliated Natural Law Party in 1992 and his campaigns against GMOs starting in 1999. Other than his time as a professional swing dance instructor, Jeffrey Smith has been a political activist, marketing and business development director and issues activist/author oriented around ventures linked to the multi-billion dollar Maharishi Institute religion[4] and has no other reported education background or other credentials.
Natural Law Party political activism
Jeffrey Smith yogic flying demonstration
Jeffrey Smith, listing his occupation as “teacher” was a frequent donor to the Natural Law Party starting with its founding in 1992.Jeffrey Smith campaigned in 1996 for the Maharishi Mahesh’s Natural Law Party platform promoting transcendental meditation and yogic flying, taught and practiced at the Maharishi Institute, as a foundation for achieving world peace in politics. At campaign events in Illinois on behalf of Natural Law Party senate candidate Jim Davis, Smith provided demonstrations of yogic flying claiming the acts would “reduce crime and other ills.” Smith claimed. to have done yogic flying demonstrations at the U.S. Capitol, World Bank and United Nations as part of his campaign efforts in support of Natural Law Party candidates and promoting the adoption of teaching transcendental meditation in public schools.[6] At campaign events Smith presented charts he claimed showed mass meditation and yogic flying lowered the crime rate in Washington, D.C., by 21 percent in a demonstration project. [7] Running on a platform promoting transcendental meditation and yogic flying in 1998, Smith was the Natural Law Party candidate for U.S. Congress in Iowa’s First District. Smith received 8 percent of the vote, losing to Republican Jim Leach.[8] Other Natural Law Party proposed platform policies promoted by Smith’s campaign included the widespread adoption of organic agriculture, an 18 percent flat-tax, and creating “macro-economic stability through increased social coherence” by having tens of thousands of practitioners of transcendental meditation that would reduce unemployment, decrease inflation and improve other economic factors.[9]
Swing Smith dance professional
Jeffrey and Andrea Smith
With his wife Andrea Vardi, Jeffry Smith has performed and provided instruction in swing dance under the professional name Swing Smith since 1996 teaching students at the University of Iowa[10] and continues via the group “Lindy Fairfield” today[11]. In 1999 the Smith duo founded Swingphoria, a Lindy Hop performance group, which performed around the Midwest.[12]
Genetic ID, GMO testing laboratory
Smith worked from 1999 – 2001 as the vice president for marketing, communications and business development for the Fairfield, IA-based GMO testing laboratory Genetic-ID. Genetic-ID was founded by John Fagan, a dean and teacher at the Maharishi Institute, with Bill Witherspoon, a Midwest organizer for the Maharishi movement[13],[14] and Jay B. Marcus, an attorney representing various Maharishi vedic health and organic food business interests.[15] At Genetic-ID Smith traveled around the globe promoting food testing for and labeling of GMOs in food, personally asserting they were dangerous.[16] Smith promoted Genetic-ID services to organic food companies[17], governments and activists groups[18] who opposed genetically modified foods. [19] Genetic-ID has become a partner in the Non-GMO Project campaign linked to Maharishi follower Ken Roseboro’s Organic and Non-GMO Report.
YES! Books
Yes! Books in Fairfield, IA has published two books by Jeffrey Smith starting with Seeds of Deception in 2003[20], and was established as a retail book store in 2004;[21] however, there are no formal business registrations for this book publisher name with the Iowa Secretary of State. Yes! Books is co-located with Jeffrey Smith’s Institute for Social Responsibility[22], and its product offerings appear limited to various anti-GMO authored content and Smith’s self-published publications, DVDs and “Non-GMO Educational Materials” promotional pamphlets.[23] Smith’s wife Andrea Vardi serves as the media contact for Yes! Books and Smith’s public appearances promoting his books.[24] Publishing under the banner of Yes! Books, Smith claims to be an international “best selling” author for his books; however, none appear verified on any such best sellerlists documenting sales.
Institute for Responsible Technology
Jeffrey Smith is currently the executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, an organization he founded in 2003. According to a 2008 Reuters report, Smith’s Institute derives its income, for which he is paid a $24,000 annual salary[25], through speakers fees, book and DVD sales and sponsor donations for his advocacy efforts.[26] From 2004-2012 the Institute was listed as the “fictitious” business name for and operated as a project of “The Coordinating Council,”[27] a registered non-profit organization claiming no income or expenses from 2004-2007 and originally registered in Washington, State by nutraceutical lobbyist and health supplement salesman Craig Winters[28],[29] as the umbrella organization for The Campaign to Label Genetically Modified Foods political ballot initiative in that state. Smith is the only listed member and sole employee for this organization. The Institute for Social Responsibility was created as a stand-alone tax-exempt, non-profit arm in 2012[30] Sponsoring donors listed on his website included: Organic Valley, Joe Mercola, Natural News/Mike Adams, Eden Organic, Nutiva, Nature’s Path Organic, WestSoy, EO, Earth’s Best Organic, New Chapter Organics, Rudis Organic Bakery, Silk, and various other organic and alternative health companies.
Criticism
Several academics have launched campaigns[31] to dissect and review Jeffrey Smith’s claims and criticize organizations and media outlets who report on his claims.[32] Other skeptics of Smith’s attacks on genetically modified crops have called his assertions “pseudoscience” and have generally discounted the transcendental meditation and yogic flying bases of his claims[33][34][35] due to the lack of quality research and a lack of methodological rigor in Smith’s claims.[36][37][38]
Personal
Jeffrey Smith grew up in New York City and then attended school at the Maharishi Institute for Management and has been cited as an expert in yogic flying. From 1983 – 1988, as part of the Ministry of Celebration and Fulfillment, Smith studied in the business administration school’s Purusha[39][40][41] program for the TM-Sidhi program approach to advanced meditation. Smith is credited with helping form the core of the U.S. “national Maharishi Effect|Super Radiance community” with TM and yogic flying demonstrations at the U.S. Capitol, World Bank and United Nations.[42] In 2002 (around the same time period in which he claims to have been an international best selling author) Smith filed Chapter 7 personal bankruptcy in Iowa Federal Court.[43] He resides in Fairfield, IA with his wife artist, jewelry maker and dance instructor Andrea Vardi (Maharishi Institute ’78).[44]
Bibliography
Books
Smith, Jeffrey M (2003). Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You’re Eating. Fairfield, IA: YES! Books (self published). ISBN 978-0-8144-1622-8.
Smith, Jeffrey M (2007). Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods. Fairfield, IA. ISBN 978-0972966528.
Smith, Jeffrey M (2003). Hard to Swallow: The Dangers of GE Food – An International Expose. Nelson, New Zealand: Craig Potton. ISBN 978-1877333118.
[edit] Filmography
Cite movie |last=Smith |first=Jeffrey M |title= Genetic Roulette the Movie |studio=Institute for Responsible Technology |location=Fairfield, IA |year=2012 |ASIN= B0096DP4CG
Cite movie |last=Smith |first=Jeffrey M |title= Dangers in Kids’ Meals and Your Milk on Drugs —Just Say No! a DVD|studio=Institute for Responsible Technology |location=Fairfield, IA |year=2008 |ASIN= 0972966560
Mr. Papaya head makes his debut!
Last Wednesday we sat through another day of hearings here on the Island of Hawaii and found it hard not to laugh at the hypocrisy, the fallacies and outright lies spread about Hawaii’s farmers, Papayas and agriculture in general. I won’t perpetuate them by writing them here; although admittedly I did react when a female anti gmo activists was verbally accosting a agriculture supporter, he found it funny but refused to answer her questions which only fed her resolve that he must be with a seed company, as if that was a bad thing. It was none of her business and frankly her racial profiling upset me. Racial profiling and undertones were thick in this hearing even from a few Council members. Most of the anti’s are haole
( Hawaiian term for white or fair skin) new comers and a few old timers; while most of the growers are minority farmers and 99% clearly local to Hawaii Island.
The Chair and Bill 109’s author and proposer; Brenda Ford slaughtered almost every farmers name and even simple names were mispronounced; yet she manged quite well with the anti’s, activists and supporters of her bill..hmmm co-inky dink, me thinks not. By far the most patronizing terms come from Margaret Willie, condescending patronization telling our farmers to just find another crop as if she is smarter than everyone else. As is all the scientists and experts we provided are lying; she acts as if she is god and it’s her way or no way…but because we have contaminated Hawaii Island she will go ahead and allow papaya growers to be exempted. The exemption taints the Hawaii Papaya Industry’s good name and is causing marketing issues, one council member proposed establishing a marketing fund to restore its name, yes that is a start!
How about Mrs. Wille and Brenda Ford making a video, apologizing to our local farmer’s for racial innuendos, patronization and condescension as if their not educated enough to make their own choices and while your at it girls…Eat a Hawaii Rainbow Papaya, after all fresh local fruit never hurt any one! Yes I want an apology, these two council members care not for our community or our culture they only care about special interests and their own agenda.
Ag Matters…Bill 113 is a “Kill us Now or Kill us later” bill in our humble opinion. So NO Thank you, We stand United for Hawaii Farmers and Ranchers and we don’t care for your half heart-ed exemption for papayas…What about the rest of agriculture and our research; We want to reserve our options for the future.
We work hard daily to feed Hawaii safe, affordable Food. We will not go away silently we will return on September 23rd, 20123 to listen to your discussion; hopefully Council Member Ford will be finished with pounding her fists on the table like a child!
As for Mr. Papaya head, he will return…He is a bit of fun in a very heated and serious situation. He is Pro agriculture, Pro Hawaii and of course he is Pro Papaya…After all he is 100% born and raised on Hawaii Island! Stay tuned for more appearances from Mr. Papaya head…
Trust us to grow your food Hawaii County “Ag is NOT a Crime”
As i steel myself for the day ahead, I’m emotional. If the Hawaii County Council votes to pass a ban or moratorium with either Bill 109 or Bill 113 it will be full frontal face slap, followed buy a kick to the core of our lifeblood, Hawaii’s culture and lifeblood is agriculture, farming and ranching run deep, this battle is wrong on so many levels.
Frankly Id like to tell the activists who have descended on Hawaii in the past few years to leave, Occupy wherever it is you came from, take your issues elsewhere. Instead I will tell you this..you will not lead us to slaughter…We will take the high road but know this, I shall smile at you today, laugh at your narrow minded vision for Hawaii and in my mind…I will be saying Fuck you..(Sorry that’s the Portuguese in me coming out). Fuck you for the hate, the animosity and the fact you have planted your doubts, fears and insecurities on Hawaii’s soils. You have infected us with your promise of a cure, when in reality you are the disease. A disease funded from outside Hawaii, activists paid to act pure when your as dirty as the lies your contaminating Hawaii with….
Today’s motto…. Fuck Yeah….We can and will fight back with every once of strength our forefathers gave us. The anti gmo crowd might not trust anyone or anyone but we do and we trust that somewhere in all this there is a lesson, a voice of reason…Council members who realize this is a cure looking for a disease and if you say No to Bill 109 & 113 that Your saying you trust Hawaii Island Farmers and ranchers to grow safe affordable for for Hawaii….
Ag is NOT a Crime….Trust us to grow your food!
It’s simple Hawaii County…Do you trust us to grow your food? If Yes then Vote No and stop this debate cold…End this nonsense, stop ripping apart our community and let us heal…
Farmers 4 Choice 