The Battle over G.M.O’s!
The vote is in over the intense battle in Hawaii over G.M.O. The battle was all about the rainbow papaya that the island farmers had genetically mutated to with stand a virus that was killing the crops on the island. If you have not heard about G.M.O otherwise known as genetically modified organisms are being used to help crops and other foods with supporting them or adding more nutrients into them.
The whole battle started when Margaret Wille a sponsor of banning them and making a “G.M.O free oasis” on the big island of Hawaii. She had asked the council to make a task force to get rid of G.M.O but declined her request. Wille’s bill would have banned the all genetically engineered crops off the big island of Hawaii. If the crops were not the penalty would be a fine of $1000 every day. Even after getting declined her task force Wille did not quit she still continued her battle with banning G.M.O.
Ilagan at a Council meeting regarding G.M.O.
On the other side of this battle they did have supporters of G.M.O’s on of which were a council member of the name Greggor Ilagan. While he did support G.M.O’s he was getting backlash from his support. While he was never reminded of the backlash was whenever he checked his email. He got tons of emails that told him to “Do the right thing…take a toxic tour of your poisoned paradise.”
A crowd looking on as the Council takes a vote to either keep or remove G.M.O’s in there crops.
After reading this article i had felt Wille was doing this for herself since she did not want G.M.O on the island at all. So she had started a following and that led to the council vote. They might of been influenced by if that vote could lead them to re-election or not. Where I lie on this topic would have to be in the middle. The middle is right because if G.M.O’s are kept in crops then it would become bad for Hawaii’s population later on in the future. Since G.M.O’s were removed that could of severely hurt Hawaii’s economy since a lot of people do farm on the island. Since the ban was approved I could feel that Hawaii’s farmers did get hurt a little because without the G.M.O’s the crops are more likely to die.
To read the full article please visit
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/us/on-hawaii-a-lonely-quest-for-facts-about-gmos.html?src=me&ref=general&_r=0