A very interesting perspective on the Anti-GMO movement shared from a friend. Thank you for sharing Laurie Keyhani! I talked to someone who works on Molokai, not a farmer, but lives here on Maui. He says this initiative will send the unemployment rate on Molokai sky high because all of these farmers are employed by Monsanto. They are not Ma and Pa farmers. When I asked him if he would still vote Yes on the initiative to ban GMOs, he said yes he would. He told me that here on Maui, Monsanto put together a focus group of probably 500 local residents, of which his wife and mother participated in, and paid them $125 each to find out which advertisement would cause the most pain (be the most effective) for local people to vote against the ban (No) on GMOs. Thats how they came up with the little farmer message that they are putting out there. He said he will vote YES, because it scares him more that Monsanto has so much power over the food supply. Never mind the money they make, or even the poison that they put into their seeds, they control the food source for the United States and part of the entire world. They could probably care less that the bees are dying, because it puts them in even more control. This is anti-trust in its finest example. Monsanto started its seed cultivation business here on Maui 30 years ago (my dad told me this as well) and has A LOT to lose if they lose Maui county. This is why they are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars advertising to stop this ban. Honestly, the commercials look like Ma and Pa farmers, but do you think they could afford this level of advertising? Its Monsanto employees in the ads. But its all of our health and well being thats on the line here.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 19:28:33 +0000
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