Pinky Presents: Islands at Risk: GMO in Hawaii

When the biotech industry decides to use the lands and people of Hawaii as its test guinea pig, local farmers, activists, researchers, and others speak out. This excellent documentary was made in 2006 by Na Maka o ka Aina for Earthjustice, the non-profit public interest law firm, and is re-presented with permission.

Earthjustice
http://www.earthjustice.org/

Na Maka o ka Aina
http://www.namaka.com/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• taro
• kalo
• native
• farmers
• Hawaii
• GMO
• Genetic
• Engineering
• environment
• health
• food
• safety
• technology
• politics
• human
• rights

[TheEthericOne]

@yerk3 PT I: To point out that corporations don't intentionally seek to kill off their customer base, when referring to Monsanto, is like saying cancer's objective is not to kill its host. IT DOES NOT MATTER! The end result is still the same. When your "religion is capitalism..." and "all other concerns are secondary," that is blatantly negligent and a conscious decision to be negligent is equal to intent. To choose to starve a child and then say that you didn't mean to harm it is ludicrous.

[TheEthericOne]

EXCELLENT WORK. Very well put together. Thank you for your time, concern, heart and effort. I am grateful :)

[TheMakerHimself]

i live in america and these gmo's are everywhere how do i know whats real? smh Who ever makes these things should clean up their mess.

[ollieflp]

@yerk3 nah youve got me wrong dont worry about it im no longer interest. thanks 

[yerk3]

@ollieflp "Not being done to make money?" Of course it is! Everything a corporation does is to make money. That is its reason to exist: to make as much money as possible this year and the next. If they wanted to do trials, they would just do trials, they would go the legal route, and if there wasn't a legal route, they would manipulate the law to make one. Massive corporations don't need to be sneaky, they can afford not to.

[yerk3]

@ollieflp You are vastly overestimating these CEOs' ability to look into the future. Their entire business model is geared towards amassing the biggest quantity of money now. The entire modus operandi has the ability to conceptualize maybe a year into the future, everything after that is purely hypothetical from their angle, and therefore not worth considering. They will bend nature and the law for their gains in the here and now, the future is just some other time.

[ollieflp]

@yerk3 The simply fact of the matter is if theres going to be no market for it these companies wouldn't do it, its not being done to make money and like it was said in the video these people of Hawaii are being used as guinea pigs just like pharmaceutical companies do when they pay people to do clinical trials.

[yerk3]

@ollieflp They aren't looking at the long term, and that's obvious. If they were, they would be taking precautions to make sure that their customers had enough money to pay them in the future, and make sure that their workers had enough health to provide their labor. Poor people can't buy your products, and dead people can't stock your shelves.

[ollieflp]

@yerk3 no they are looking long term but in the short term people have to suffer read 'the prince'

[michalchik]

@myndy86 OK, Those both sound like reasonable measures. I never bought the argument that GM products should not be labeled. I know that some people would avoid them because of irrational fears but that is their right. If there is a weird experimental result it needs to be investigated.