A quite pall has encroached upon the beauty of Hawaii. Given cart blanche by federal and state government; biotechnology companies have become the islands most dangerous invasive species. As biotech's Petri dish of the Pacific, no other place in the world has the acreage of open air test fields as in Hawaii. With many of these test field's only short distances from communities and school's, Hawaii's citizens have unwittingly become the biotech industries human test subjects (i.e. guinea pigs). Believe in science? In a recent N.Y. Times article titled Crop Scientists Say Biotechnology Seed Companies Are Thwarting Research author Andrew Pollack writes, "Biotechnology companies are keeping university scientists from fully researching the effectiveness and environmental impact of the industry's genetically modified crops, according to an unusual complaint issued by a group of those scientists." History repeats itself. How many books need to be written, movies made before we learn to beware of wolves in sheep's clothing, those that bare false gifts, and in Hawaii's case fascists in farmers clothes? Please SUPPORT SB 239 "Right to Know" Bill and OPPOSE HB 1226 "Subjugation" Bill.
1. "Crop Scientists Say Biotechnology Seed Companies Are Thwarting Research," by Andrew Pollack
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/business/20crop.html?_r=1
2. Hawaii State SB 239: "Right to Know" Bill; HB 1226: "Subjugation" Bill
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/bills/SB239_SD1_.pdf
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/bills/HB1226_HD1_.pdf
