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ellisonz

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5. Some more stories on this issue:

Reply to ellisonz (Original post)

Wed Dec 14, 2011, 05:03 AM

Dec 2011

Frontline: The story of the Rainbow Papaya, a Hawaiian biotech story. Excerpt from PBS "Harvest of Fear."

Vandals Destroy 3 Big Island Papaya Farms

Big Island Farmers Hold Meeting On Papaya Vandalism

If my memory is correct there was an incident on Oahu too; these people are organized and committed.

The bottom-line is this: the Hawaii papaya industry would be dead without the GMOs, and that wouldn't help anyone. Don't like the GMOs, there are farms that grow the non-GMOs but they're more expensive and out of the price range of most consumers in Hawaii. This just hurts working people and solves nothing.

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Big Island groups offer $30,000 reward for information on hacked papaya trees [View all] ellisonz Dec 2011 OP

Hackers vs. GMO crops.... tough call without far more information (beyond the article). nt DCKit Dec 2011 #1

It's kinda a mystery. ellisonz Dec 2011 #2

If they are fighting GMO, they're NOT expressing themselves, they're trying to stop contamination saras Dec 2011 #3

They're committing criminal acts and destroying livelihoods. ellisonz Dec 2011 #4

Some more stories on this issue: ellisonz Dec 2011 #5