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Tuesday, February 4, 2025 |
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Greatness
By Joni Kamiya @ 2:23 AM :: 344 Views :: GMOs
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... Let’s take a look at the definition of greatness ....
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Friday, May 17, 2024 |
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The Dire Cost of Disinformation
By Joni Kamiya @ 6:58 PM :: 2108 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, GMOs
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... the very first coconut rhinoceros beetle was detected here in Hawaii 11 years ago ....
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Tuesday, August 15, 2023 |
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Lahaina: Rise with Grace
By Joni Kamiya @ 8:55 PM :: 2480 Views :: Maui County, GMOs
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... We can’t be shattered and split by opinions and savvy social media posts with catchy slogans but focused on working as one to build a better and more resilient community ....
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Tuesday, August 8, 2023 |
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Kauai Birds Pushed to Edge of Extinction by Mosquito-borne Avian Malaria
By News Release @ 2:39 AM :: 2870 Views :: Kauai County, Environment, GMOs
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... While conservation partners wait for final approval of a proposed mosquito birth control, also known as the Incompatible Insect Technique (IIT) ....
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Saturday, July 1, 2023 |
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Feds move forward on introducing imperiled species outside historic habitat in Hawaii, Guam
By Court House News @ 4:31 PM :: 2047 Views :: Environment, Land Use, GMOs
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... The Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized a plan that will give it more flexibility in helping species recover when their historic range is no longer suitable for survival ....
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Sunday, April 16, 2023 |
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Gene Editing: Getting Serious About Hawaii Invasive Species Problem
By Selected News Articles @ 2:04 AM :: 2828 Views :: Environment, GMOs
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... The debate illuminates the split that has recently emerged between back-to-nature eco-justice environmentalists and early embracers of technological innovation ....
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Wednesday, June 8, 2022 |
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Mosquito News: DLNR Refutes anti-GMO Lies
By News Release @ 5:39 PM :: 2171 Views :: Environment, GMOs
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... Despite misinformation circulating on social media, the importation of “incompatible-male” mosquitoes to control populations of wild mosquitoes and to save four native bird species from extinction, does not involve the use of any genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or genetically engineered (GE) organisms ....
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Wednesday, March 9, 2022 |
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Ignoring the Science for Ideologies
By Joni Kamiya @ 3:00 PM :: 2386 Views :: GMOs, COVID-19
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... Russian bots spread anti-vaccination messages across the social media ....
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Tuesday, March 8, 2022 |
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Feds Indict Russian Agent -- Organized Kauai Council Junket to Russia
By News Release @ 11:41 PM :: 5663 Views :: Kauai County, Law Enforcement, GMOs
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... FBI agents interviewed Kauai Councilmember Felicia Cowden in September, 2020 ....
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Wednesday, February 2, 2022 |
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Tunnel Vision
By Joni Kamiya @ 5:55 PM :: 5594 Views :: Agriculture, Labor, Small Business, Cost of Living, GMOs
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... The legislature appears to be dead set on ignoring the entire impact of short term solutions and catchy soundbites ....
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Friday, December 17, 2021 |
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Sterile Mosquitoes to Suppress Avian Malaria on Maui
By News Release @ 3:09 PM :: 2706 Views :: Maui County, Environment, GMOs
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... not a peep from the anti-GMO activists ....
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Thursday, December 9, 2021 |
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Monsanto Agrees to Plead Guilty to Illegally Using Pesticide at Corn Growing Fields in Hawaii
By News Release @ 8:41 PM :: 3183 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, GMOs
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... Monsanto Company agreed to plead guilty to 30 environmental crimes related to the use of a pesticide on corn fields in Hawaii ....
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Tuesday, September 7, 2021 |
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The Cost of Disinformation
By Joni Kamiya @ 11:55 PM :: 3827 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs, COVID-19
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... Hearing after hearing, the least informed made so many false claims and none could ever be corroborated with data. Like a virus, that same disinformation was repeated over and over until it was believed as fact. Not one politician asked these testifiers for evidence ever. ...
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Friday, August 27, 2021 |
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Poisoning of People
By Joni Kamiya @ 4:11 PM :: 5370 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, GMOs, COVID-19
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... I have to laugh because they mocked me as being sheep but, uh, they are the ones taking enough of a toxic substance made for sheep! ....
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Saturday, January 30, 2021 |
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Flirting with Disaster
By Joni Kamiya @ 8:35 PM :: 3694 Views :: GMOs, COVID-19
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... activists were determined to get their way ignoring all of the evidence while creating lots of fake “evidence” ....
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Thursday, October 8, 2020 |
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Hilo native wins coveted Nobel Prize for gene editing tool
By News Release @ 12:00 PM :: 3252 Views :: Higher Education, GMOs
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... A world-renowned biochemist who connects part of her early fascination with science to time spent in a University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo biology lab captured the prestigious Nobel Prize in Chemistry ....
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Friday, July 10, 2020 |
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Pandemic Priorities
By Joni Kamiya @ 11:44 PM :: 4305 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs, COVID-19
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...people want what works, and they don’t care about the toxicity....
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Friday, April 3, 2020 |
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Corona Virus: A Time to Return Hawaii to Science-Based Policy
By Joni Kamiya @ 2:28 AM :: 4862 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs, COVID-19
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...I recall so many antis marching in Waikiki with those precious N-95 masks and hazmat suits that are needed now....
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020 |
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Why Be Pro-GMO?
By Joni Kamiya @ 6:14 PM :: 3395 Views :: GMOs
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...I had to think about what was driving me to fight for GMO tech....
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020 |
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DoH Forced Dairy Farmer to Give $87K to Anti-GMO Group
By News Release @ 6:13 PM :: 4883 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, GMOs
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...$87,000 to the Center for Food Safety....
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Saturday, December 21, 2019 |
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Confused about GMOs and pesticides? Here’s a science-based handbook for combating anti-biotech fallacies
By Selected News Articles @ 10:13 AM :: 3925 Views :: GMOs
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...examine the difference between science and opportunistic activism....
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Friday, November 22, 2019 |
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Monsanto Fined $10 Million in Plea Deal Over Use of Banned Pesticide
By Selected News Articles @ 4:22 AM :: 5579 Views :: Maui County, Agriculture, GMOs
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...the government agreed to dismiss two felony charges for unlawfully transporting and storing hazardous waste at locations on Maui and Moloka’i....
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Wednesday, October 16, 2019 |
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Critical flaws plague new study linking ‘heavy’ pesticide exposure to cardiovascular disease
By Selected News Articles @ 2:57 PM :: 6008 Views :: Agriculture, Health Care, GMOs
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...there is no paper that is so dreadful that it cannot be published somewhere....
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Saturday, September 14, 2019 |
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Vicious Rumors--Not the First Time
By Joni Kamiya @ 10:29 PM :: 8507 Views :: Agriculture, Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA, GMOs
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...to the politician who quietly supported us in word but did the opposite in action-- you’ve created this mess....
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Wednesday, August 7, 2019 |
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Hooser Claims he is not Running for Chair
By News Release @ 7:18 PM :: 4567 Views :: Democratic Party, GMOs
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...Hooser claims to be too busy pushing the regessive leftist tourism-driven agenda of anti-GMO, anti-cane smoke, anti-dairy, anti-Superferry, anti-telescope activism....
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Friday, July 19, 2019 |
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Setting Off Hysteria
By Joni Kamiya @ 12:30 PM :: 6899 Views :: Education K-12, Family, GMOs
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...Today my kids learned a lesson about thinking logically the hard way....
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Friday, July 12, 2019 |
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School Bus Dangers
By Joni Kamiya @ 4:14 AM :: 6601 Views :: Education K-12, Agriculture, GMOs
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...activists have scared parents into believing that they must fear pesticides but ignore other real safety hazards....
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Thursday, July 11, 2019 |
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Tourism Activists Find New Way to Push Agriculture out of Hawaii
By News Release @ 5:21 AM :: 7421 Views :: Kauai County, Environment, Agriculture, GMOs
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...Hawai‘i’s Agribusiness Development Corporation (ADC) has violated the federal Clean Water Act by polluting ocean waters along Kauaʻi’s West Side without a permit, a federal court ruled yesterday....
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Saturday, June 29, 2019 |
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Activist Attacks Destroy Another 17% of Hawaii Seed Industry Acreage
By News Release @ 8:30 PM :: 133349 Views :: Agriculture, Hawaii Statistics, GMOs
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...Acreage harvested for all seed crops is expected to total 2,530 acres during the 2018-19 season, down 17 percent from the previous season....
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Friday, June 28, 2019 |
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Debates: On Agriculture, Democrats Pander to 'Regressive Left'
By Selected News Articles @ 2:57 AM :: 7962 Views :: Democratic Party, Agriculture, Politicians, GMOs
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...This week’s opening round of Democratic Party presidential debates threatens to fall short on science and is likely to be dominated by ideological talking points when it comes to food, farming and agricultural biotechnology....
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Friday, June 28, 2019 |
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Knee Jerk Reactions
By Joni Kamiya @ 2:39 AM :: 6529 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, GMOs
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...The activists could not get the results they wanted in a scientific study and instead went to the courtroom to make their case....
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Friday, May 10, 2019 |
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Joan Conrow: From anti-GMO journalist to crop biotech advocate
By Audio @ 8:35 PM :: 6143 Views :: Kauai County, GMOs
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...once she saw how anti-GMO groups operate and began investigating the science behind biotechnology, she changed her mind....
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Saturday, April 13, 2019 |
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Activists hurt farmers by fueling public’s disconnect with modern agriculture
By Selected News Articles @ 5:09 AM :: 8310 Views :: Agriculture, Greenmail, GMOs
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...farmers are increasingly frustrated and dispirited by having to deal with the demands and unrealistic expectations of a public that is growing ever more distant from the realities of agriculture....
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Monday, February 18, 2019 |
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Fear is not Sustainable
By Joni Kamiya @ 4:31 PM :: 5792 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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...Nomi Carmona of the Babes Against Biotech was not present at the State Capitol. Ashley Lukens of the Center for Food Safety was a no show. Walter Ritte wasn’t even there too....
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Saturday, January 5, 2019 |
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Anti-GMO? Regressive Left Just as Russian as Trump
By Selected News Articles @ 8:26 PM :: 5106 Views :: GMOs
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...The Russian propaganda machine works closely with the complementary, well-financed U.S.-based anti-genetic engineering movement....
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Saturday, December 29, 2018 |
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Dirty Little Hands
By Joni Kamiya @ 3:06 PM :: 6541 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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...It is trendy right now to be telling tales about farmers....
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Monday, December 17, 2018 |
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Maui County Pays Vendors Ripped Off by Anti-GMO Activist
By News Release @ 8:41 PM :: 6807 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, GMOs
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...The Mayor's Office of Economic Development (OED) announced today that its office received a total of $8,730.28 in requests for payments for unpaid invoices for the 250th Celebration of Queen Kaahumanu grant, which was terminated in October....
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018 |
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Regressive Progressives Plan Big Agenda for 2019 Legislature
By News Release @ 10:00 AM :: 7445 Views :: Democratic Party, GMOs
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...Instead of passing a single major piece of legislation, during 2019 we are committed to passing into law bold public policy initiatives in all three of our major areas of focus - economic, environmental, and social justice....
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018 |
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A Smaller World
By Joni Kamiya @ 1:12 AM :: 7305 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, GMOs
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...These feel-good ideas are placed upon farmers with no consideration of the consequences of its impacts....
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Wednesday, November 14, 2018 |
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Anti-Pesticide Hysteria: Enviros Shift from Bees to Birds
By Selected News Articles @ 2:37 PM :: 8981 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Greenmail, GMOs
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...As global honeybee population increases, activists blame neonicotinoid pesticides for ‘bird-pocalypse’ that’s not happening....
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Friday, November 2, 2018 |
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Cheese: The GMO food die-hard GMO opponents love, but don’t want to label
By Selected News Articles @ 10:34 PM :: 4475 Views :: GMOs
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...almost all the hard cheeses made in the United States, and in much of the West, use a protein that is made from genetically engineered yeast and bacteria....
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018 |
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Did Anti-GMO Activist Rip You Off? Maui County Can Help
By News Release @ 3:00 AM :: 7249 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, GMOs
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...Maui County Office of Economic Development is accepting invoices from vendors who provided goods and services under the recently terminated $100,000 grant awarded to an executive assistant of County Council Member (and anti-GMO activist) Alika Atay....
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Sunday, October 21, 2018 |
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Poor Farmer
By Joni Kamiya @ 3:40 PM :: 5936 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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...If you do not farm, why should you dictate how farming should be done?....
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Monday, July 23, 2018 |
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Intolerant Politicians: Green, LoPresti, Ing, Gabbard and More....
By Joni Kamiya @ 3:20 AM :: 10097 Views :: Ethics, Politicians, GMOs
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...now resorting to sending Babes Against Biotech activists to community events set up by his opponent....
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Tuesday, July 17, 2018 |
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Farm Fair 2018: Eating the GMO Papaya
By Joni Kamiya @ 1:05 PM :: 5839 Views :: Small Business, GMOs
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...A few minutes later, she came back and took a slice and ate it to the skin....
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Tuesday, July 10, 2018 |
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Popular science news website promotes pesticide conspiracy theory
By Selected News Articles @ 1:40 AM :: 6280 Views :: Kauai County, GMOs
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...Was the "secret cocktail" being sprayed from black helicopters?....
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Friday, May 18, 2018 |
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Backbone
By Joni Kamiya @ 10:41 PM :: 9677 Views :: Ethics, Agriculture, Hawaii State Government, GMOs
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...With the recent passage of the anti-pesticide bills in our legislature, I received messages and emails from certain legislators apologizing for voting for this....
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Saturday, April 28, 2018 |
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SB3095: Legislative Pandering to Anti-Pesticide Nuts Will Affect Every Homeowner and Restaurant in Hawaii
By News Release @ 1:56 PM :: 7140 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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...If signed into law, SB3095 will have Hawaii restaurants crawling with cockroaches--this should be almost as good for tourism as the homeless tent cities Hanabusa is planning....
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