Hawaii Ag Law Conference Tackles GMO Issues

Links From Today's Session On GMO Issues

by Robert Thomas, Inverse Condemnation, January 8, 2014

Here are links to some of the materials mentioned at our session today on the GMO issue at the Hawaii Agriculture Law Conference:

• The Kauai ordinance, Bill 2491.
• The Kauai Mayor's veto message, which included the privilege-waived memorandum of law detailing the legal problems with the measure. 
• The County of Hawaii's (Big Island) Bill 113.
• New York Times: A Lonely Quest for Facts on Genetically Modified Crops.
• Also from the NYT: A Race to Save the Orange by Altering its DNA.
• White v. City of Elk River, No. No. A12-0681 (Minn. Dec. 4, 2013) ("grandfathering," non-conforming uses).
• Why groceries cost more in the Bay Area (San Francisco Chronicle).
• GMO Labeling Now Law in Connecticut (Well, Sort Of).
• GMO and "Natural" Food Fight: Treacherous Terrain. 
• Hawaii's Right to Farm Act.

 My co-planning Chair, Dave Bateman (a lawyer and a coffee farmer), speaking to the Conference.