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2009-04-14 | permalink
A seed of doubt - GE crops on Hawai’i (USA)
With thousands of acres of farmland across the Islands already devoted to genetically modified seeds, there are few signs that Hawai’i is ready to get serious about regulation. Ask folks to name Hawai’i’s most valuable farm crop and they’ll likely say sugar or pineapple, maybe hazard a guess at macadamia nuts. Few will answer correctly–seeds–and even fewer will know that at least half that industry is devoted to growing genetically-modified organisms, or GMOs.
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2009-04-14 | permalink
A seed of doubt - GE crops on Hawai’i (USA)
With thousands of acres of farmland across the Islands already devoted to genetically modified seeds, there are few signs that Hawai’i is ready to get serious about regulation. Ask folks to name Hawai’i’s most valuable farm crop and they’ll likely say sugar or pineapple, maybe hazard a guess at macadamia nuts. Few will answer correctly–seeds–and even fewer will know that at least half that industry is devoted to growing genetically-modified organisms, or GMOs.
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