Hawaiians win community GMO victory over Monsanto

http://www.intellihub.com/hawaiians-win-community-gmo-victory-monsanto/

Residents of Maui County in Hawaii, frequently referred to as ‘GMO Ground Zero,’ claimed a victory Tuesday evening when a measure to ban the planting of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) passed with 50.2 percent.

Agribusiness giants Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences, which for decades have run enormous growing and testing operations on the island, spent nearly $8 million dollars to defeat the ban, making it the most expensive campaign in Hawaii’s history, according to Honolulu Civil Beat.

1 thought on “Hawaiians win community GMO victory over Monsanto

  1. Exposed: The judge in the Monsanto-Maui lawsuit is tainted
    November 26, 2014 12:33 pm EST
    http://www.intellihub.com/exposed-judge-monsanto-maui-lawsuit-tainted/

    Judge Kurren is overseeing the Monsanto/Dow lawsuit against Maui, where the people recently voted to halt Monsanto/Dow GMO research.

    Until at least the fall of 2011, Judge Kurren’s wife, Faye, was a trustee of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), a 6-billion-dollar environmental group.

    TNC specializes in working with mega-corporations, who donate major money, in return for receiving TNC’s “good housekeeping seal of approval” as friends of the environment.

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