Farmed and Dangerous Oiling the Food Chain

Organic farmers are going to fertilize their pants.
The Petrol Pellet is market ready...
"Explores the twisted and utterly unsustainable world of industrial agriculture."
"DENVER, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- The socially conscious U.S. Chipotle Mexican Grill chain began dishing up online comedy Monday, announcing its four-episode series, "Farmed and Dangerous."

Chipotle said,. "'Farmed and Dangerous' addresses issues we feel strongly about, and we hope viewers come away with a smile as well as questions about where our food comes from."
UPI http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2014/02/17/Chipotle-releases-Farmed-and-Dangerous-Web-series-on-Hulu/UPI-85571392671057/?spt=rln&or=1
http://www.hulu.com/watch/590269#i0,p0,d0

http://farmedanddangerous.com/

Elle Cochran Airs Maui Pesticide and GMO Concerns

GMO & Pesticide Bill Maui County For Disclosure of Use... EIS -Environmental Impact Statement

Crossroads February 4, 2014 from Akaku Maui Community TV on Vimeo.

Pesticides and GMO Bill
Maui Crossroads with host Elle Cochran talking with Dr. Pang, Bob Martin, and Gerry Ross.
@36:47 Bob Martin goes into all the many, many farms on Maui that were ruined and went out of business due to pesticide drift.
Mr. Martin reports over 200 cases of pesticide misuse he documented that were not really investigated, or laws enforced. Hawai'i State Dept. of Agricultural is not doing its job...even falsifying reports.
Gerry Ross explains organic and natural ways...

I know personally what Mr. Martin is saying...

Police report May 31st 2008
5 dead chickens from a new round  in my already terribly poisoned by pesticide yard.
They say it is a civil matter, but I insisted they make a police report..

Complaint #MA-08-08 on 11/25/08
About my yard
No investigation, although he noted my yard had evidence of pesticide poisoning.  Because, I did not die, only 5 chickens in my yard died and not 10, and I did not spend 24 hours in the hospital- months in bed not being able to move,  and countless visits to the doctor didn't count; NO LAW WAS BROKEN...

Complaint #MA-09-03 on 4/17/09
About my yard
Still owe $4 on last report didn't get this one, but Dept of Ag sent a letter that said they talked to the place where I live.

Complaint #MA-10-07 on 7/22/10
About poisoning in I'ao River
In a letter Dept. of Ag Pesticide Misuse Div. sent;  it said they talked to every known dept in the state, county and private parties about the spraying.
And it is still happening...

2/12/14 The blue dyed pesticide was sprayed by the river, mailboxes, 10' from the edge of my property, and 40' from my backdoor.

Atrazine and Silencing Doctors by Corporations is REAL Tar Sands in Canada and USA

Is the Alberta government’s ‘Tar Sands is King’ attitude silencing doctors?

When we get sick, when we experience symptoms that we’ve never seen before, we rely on doctors to tell us what’s wrong. We rely on their knowledge and training to diagnose our symptoms and tell us how to get better.

When Peace River residents went to their doctor something else happened. Their doctors refused to do the tests needed to fully diagnose the symptoms they were experiencing, and in one case the doctor’s advice was simply to, “move.” His actual comment was even more troubling: “you are just a small, little bolt in this huge robot, and you don't matter. Move.”

Via Greenpeace Canada

http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/Blog/is-the-alberta-governments-tar-sands-is-king-/blog/48151/

IN USA SOON?

One study suggests that chemicals that act as endocrine disrupters may put an unborn infant at risk. A 2012 epidemiological study looked at atrazine, a commonly used herbicide in the U.S., and found that women who lived in counties in Texas with the highest levels of this chemical being used to treat agricultural crops were 80 times more likely to give birth to infants with choanal atresia or stenosis compared to women who lived in the counties with the lowest levels. ^[26]

Although the U.S. EPA states that thus far studies show atrazine to be an endocrine disruptor,^[1] a 2013 op-ed written by Jon Entine inForbes called it a novel theory, "widely circulated notion popular with the Environmental Working Group, Center for Food Safety, Natural Resources Defense Council and other anti-chemical activists".^[27] According to Entine, the current scientific consensus is that atrazine is safe, restrictions too severe, and has prompted the WHO to significantly raise the allowable amount of atrazine in drinking water.^[27]

A recent study demonstrated that exposure of beetles to environmentally relevant doses of Atrazine during development as larvae confounded the sexual selection process so that females selected less fit mates, and speculated that it may have played a role in the declines in the federally endangered American Burying Beetle.^[28]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine

This is one of many chemicals that make people become "gay", or have difficulty with sexual orientation.

PARENTS! This is your fault... you DID THIS to your own children!

Apocalyptic Genetically Engineered Biotoxins and Your Food!

By: Roger Landry (TLB)

Fluoride, PCB, DDT, Agent Orange, you think we would have learned by now. The chemical and Bio-tech industries are responsible for some of the biggest blights on humanity, and this planets biosphere in modern history.

Birth defects, cancer and wholesale destruction of the local ecosystems, these are just a few examples of the fallout from the massive utilization of these apocalyptic chemicals.

But no we have not learned, or the greed level of those who would benefit has gone into overdrive. We are all aware at some level of the independent (of Monsanto) research that has been coming forward concerning Monsanto’s Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide.

TLB through our research have found Glyphosate and Agent Orange to be among the most destructive substances to both humanity and the biosphere ever to be developed by mankind … and you KNOW that Monsanto and our government (our protector) KNOW this as well, and quite possibly much more! So … ???

Glyphosate and Agent Orange are being tied directly to birth defects, infertility, sperm destruction, and cancer. The Europeans may have thought themselves safe as they banned more GMO crops, but what was not banned (to their detriment) was the Genetically Engineered Roundup pesticide.

Please listen to this show as we RANT and hopefully if you are not already aware … you will have an Epiphany …

@35:50  minutes: He starts on RoundUp by Monsanto after addressing fluoride...Crazy, but true...

Complaining of Pesticide Poisoning Gets a Label of Mental Illness in DSM-V

"The Work Group is not proposing to classify Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and Fibromyalgia within the DSM-5 'Somatic Symptom Disorders' section, but these patients and others with conditions like chronic Lyme disease, interstitial cystitis, Gulf War illness and chemical injury will now become particularly vulnerable to misdiagnosis with a DSM-5 mental health disorder."
My doctor tried to pull that crap on me!
My fingers were failing off. She didn't want to give me pain meds, but was quick to say I had anxiety. YOU would too if your whole body was falling apart. AND NO DOCTOR WOULD TEST FOR CHEMICAL EXPOSURE.
The pills (samples) she gave me were 99% Fluoride too.
I am never going to a doctor...Ever again, unless it is the emergency room from now on.

And, they can take your kids away from you with diagnosis.
• DSM-5 allows for a diagnosis of 'Somatic Symptom Disorder' when a parent is considered 'excessively concerned' about a child's symptoms.

"Incautious, inept misapplication of these highly subjective and catch-all criteria will likely result in frequent inappropriate psychiatric diagnosis with far-reaching implications for both the health care industry and diverse patient populations. Harms include:

• Stigma

• Missed diagnoses through failure to investigate new or worsening somatic symptoms.

• Patients will be prescribed inappropriate psychotropic drugs with consequent side effects, complications, and costs.

• There may be limits imposed on the types of medical tests and treatments offered for patients misdiagnosed as having a mental disorder.

• Misdiagnosed patients may be disadvantaged in employment, medical and disability reimbursement.

• An additional diagnosis of 'SSD' in a patient's medical history may negatively influence decisions made by agencies involved with social and medical services, disability adaptations, education and workplace accommodations.

• An inaccurate SSD diagnosis will skew the person's view of herself and her illness and perceptions of family and friends.

• In multi-system diseases like Multiple Sclerosis, Behçet’s syndrome or Systemic lupus, it can take several years before a diagnosis is arrived at. In the meantime, patients with chronic, multiple somatic symptoms who are still waiting for a diagnosis would be vulnerable to misdiagnosis as psychiatrically ill.

• DSM-5 allows for a diagnosis of 'Somatic Symptom Disorder' when a parent is considered 'excessively concerned' about a child's symptoms. Families caring for children with any chronic illness may be placed at risk of wrongful accusation of 'over-involvement' with their child's symptomatology or of encouraging 'sick role behavior.' By what means will a practitioner accurately assess an individual's response to illness within the context of the patient's personal, family and economic circumstances and reliably determine what might be considered 'excessive preoccupation' versus a positive coping strategy for that patient and family?

• The burden of the DSM-5 changes will fall particularly heavily upon women who are more likely to be casually dismissed when presenting with physical symptoms and much more likely to receive inappropriate antidepressants and anti anxiety medications for them.

"The Work Group is well aware that patients, families, caregivers and advocacy organizations are strongly opposed to the DSM-5 changes. During the second DSM-5 public review, the 'Somatic Symptom Disorders' proposals attracted more responses than almost any other category.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dsm5-in-distress/201212/mislabeling-medical-illness-mental-disorder

Complete Ban on Cosmetic Pesticides in Ottawa With Blessing from Ontario Province - Each Community to Decide for Itself

Ottawa has a complete ban on residential use...Took a big fight, and they had a great leader...Dr. Jean Cottam
History of CHO:

Since 2003, the CHO has been calling for the City of Ottawa to pass a by-law that would restrict the cosmetic use of lawn care pesticides.

On May 28, 2008, Ottawa City Council overwhelmingly endorsed, with a 17-7 vote, the Ontario Government's initiative to ban the use and sale of cosmetic pesticides in Ontario (Bill 64 – The Cosmetic Pesticide Ban Act).

Ottawa Council also recommended that the provincial legislation be amended to permit municipalities to pass bylaws regulating cosmetic pesticide use consistent with the intent of the provincial legislation – to ban the use and sale of cosmetic pesticides. With this Ottawa joins the City of Toronto in requesting this amendment.

On April 22, 2008, Earth Day, the Ontario Government introduced Bill 64 - "The Cosmetic Pesticide Ban Act, 2008" - that would implement a province-wide ban on the cosmetic use and sale of lawn and garden pesticides.

Ontario’s cosmetic pesticides ban took effect on April 22, 2009.

Over 250 pesticide products are now banned for sale and more than 95 pesticide ingredients are banned for cosmetic uses (see list here).
The Ministry of Environment's press release can be viewed here.

The Coalition for a Healthy Ottawa thanks and congratulates the government of Ontario for implementing a province-wide ban on the sale and use of cosmetic lawn pesticides. Ending their use makes good sense!

The time has therefore come for the citizens of Ottawa to respects the basic rights of us all to a healthy environment with clean air, clean water and clean soil.
http://www.flora.org/healthyottawa/index.html

TPP Trade Treaty USA Sends Bio-tech to Negociate... My 3 minutes in Front of Maui County Council

The Americans want to use the Free Trade Agreement to open the European GMO Market.

The negotiations will be detailed. Toughness will rule the day. US President Barack Obama has therefore appointed Islam Siddiqui as chief negotiator for agriculture. He has worked for many years for the US ministry of agriculture as an expert. However, hardly anyone in Europe knows: From 2001 to 2008, he represented CropLife America as a registered lobbyist. CropLife America is an important industry association in the United States, representing the interests of pesticide and gene technology manufacturers – including of course Monsanto. “Actually, the EU cannot accept such a chief negotiator because of bias”, says Manfred Hausling, who represents the Green Party in the EU parliament...

http://covvha.net/the-sinister-monsanto-group-from-agent-orange-to-genetically-modified-corn/#.UfFoOdKsg6Y

Why do we have to fight for our health?
@ 18minutes you can see me trying to fight for mine.
I have wanted to tell Sheila's family and Gary Harts' about this...
Sad how they both died after the spraying of heart problems. Sheila died 9 days later, and Gary followed soon after.
I didn't tell how my tooth abscessed the same night and my face was huge and swollen. More pain.

THE GUY BEFORE ME WAS ACTUALLY CENSORED!  BLACKED OUT IS WHAT THEY FOUND WHEN THE OVERSPRAY FROM PESTICIDE ON HIS PROPERTY WAS TESTED IN THE LAB.
MORE THEN 5 PESTICIDES,AND 1 WAS ATRAZINE.

Maui Pesticide Bill Testimony Part 2

 

 This happened the 1st week of October 2013 about 9am.
The grass was already dead.
In a 20mph or more wind there was a truck with a trailer. In the trailer made especially for it, a red tank, looked like 50 gals to me. They must have weed eated the area first...

Gary Hart and Sheila had offices and a shop about 50 yards from here on Market. This is the corner of Mill and Market.
They both died of heart conditions shortly after this spray.

Mouth, lips and tongue burning, the next morning my mouth and tongue were full of open sores. I was at the Maui Medical Night Clinic the next night. My face had ballooned and a tooth abscessed. The doctor actually asked me if something had happened to cause this... Blew me away cause she suspected this not to be normal.

Can you see who has enough pull to send that sprayer...Name is right there!

Richard Amedeo insisted on doing my yard ...I said it was poison but he did it anyway.
He fell down and vomited after 1/2 hr. Then he went home. His heart was stopping and he made a visit to the emergency room when his son found him unconscious in the yard...They couldn't find his pulse, and the nurses asked him if he knew his heart was barely beating too.
He died the next year of prostrate cancer.

Anthony Samsel Speaks Up on ..."FDA requesting comments manufacturing standards of infant formula" DDT Components in Vaccines

Anthony Samsel
"Infant formulas are soy based and 90 % of the soy sampled by USDA found it highly contaminated with Monsanto's Roundup-glyphosate herbicide. Infant formula is now a delivery system for one of the most insidious chemicals on earth which chelates and ties up some of the most important elements necessary for proper development, growth and overall health.

The FDA's statement is a joke obviously written by PR staff. Nothing could be further from the truth. The agency states: “The FDA sets high quality standards for infant formulas because nutritional deficiencies during this critical time of development can have a significant impact on a child’s long-term health and well-being. This rule will help to prevent adulteration in infant formula and ensure infant formula supports normal, physical growth.” This is drivel !

Glyphosate disrupts the CYP 450 enzymes and the homeostasis of gut bacteria necessary for the production of the aromatic amino acids phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan. It also interferes with methionine and selenocysteine.

The public must be alerted to the dangers of glyphosate in infant formula..."

FDA Releases Interim Rule for Infant Formula

BY NEWS DESK | FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released an interim final rule and draft guidance documents regarding the manufacturing standards of infant formula.

Only 75 percent of infants in the U.S. start out being breastfed and by age three months, two-thirds rely on infant formula for some portion of their nutrition. The rule is meant to ensure that formulas for infants without unusual medical or dietary problems are safe and support healthy growth.

The draft guidance documents issued alongside the interim final rule address how manufacturers can demonstrate that their products meet the quality factor requirements of the interim final rule and information about manufacturing formulas made for infants with unusual medical or dietary problems

“Many families rely on infant formula as either the sole source of nutrition or an integral part of an infant’s diet through 12 months of age,” said Michael Taylor, the FDA’s deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine. “The FDA sets high quality standards for infant formulas because nutritional deficiencies during this critical time of development can have a significant impact on a child’s long-term health and well-being.”

The interim final rule amends the FDA’s quality control procedures, notification, and record and reporting requirements for manufacturers of infant formulas. It also establishes current good manufacturing practices and requires testing for Cronobacter and Salmonella contamination.

FDA says that companies currently manufacturing infant formula in the U.S. already voluntarily conduct many of the current good manufacturing practices and quality control procedures included in the rule.

The agency will be accepting comments from the public on issues or information not previously considered in the interim final rule.

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2014/02/fda-new-rules-for-infant-formula/#.Uvgz29JdWSp

And then there is this...

Pharmaceutical companies have yet to explain how injecting such toxic substances into a baby actually makes them healthier. You’ll see how they have known about this information for some time.

Consider page 71 of the handbook cautioning, “It should be clearly kept in mind that most of the substances under consideration are poisonous. If they were not, they would probably be useless against the insects for which they are recommended. Therefore, the recommendations for the proper use of these substances should be followed. Careless, unnecessary exposure and misuse is [sic] fraught with hazard.”

Here is the twist I promised.

Using the chemicals in vaccines is easily understood by looking at who owns the patent for DDT.

On page 3 of the handbook it states, “The Geigy company holds the patents on the use of the compound [DDT] as an insecticide. The United States patent is No. 2,329,074, issued September 7, 1943, to Paul Müller.” [emphasis mine]

Geigy company is now known as Novartis Pharmaceuticals, a vaccine manufacturer.



What does it all mean?
In a nutshell, the same companies who formulated and patented DDT, are putting the same industrial chemicals in childhood vaccines. To add insult to injury, their public relations campaigns brainwash doctors and the scientific community into believing that injecting babies, even in small amounts with these chemicals, is somehow okay. Even more bizarre are claims chemicals such as Triton X-100 or Tween 80 are involved in promoting health!

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Pesticide Chemicals Are In Vaccines

http://vactruth.com/2011/09/10/wwii-military-handbook-reveals-pesticide-chemicals-used-in-infant-vaccines/

RoundUp Kills in Oceans More then on Land 1st Ever Study

Highlights

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This is the first study of glyphosate persistence in seawater.

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Half-lives in “simulation” flask tests ranged from 47 to 315 days.

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Glyphosate degraded most rapidly under low light and most slowly in the dark.

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AMPA, the biodegradation metabolite of glyphosate was detected in each treatment.

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This persistence increases the potential for transport into the marine environment.

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Abstract

Glyphosate is one of the most widely applied herbicides globally but its persistence in seawater has not been reported. Here we quantify the biodegradation of glyphosate using standard “simulation” flask tests with native bacterial populations and coastal seawater from the Great Barrier Reef. The half-life for glyphosate at 25 °C in low-light was 47 days, extending to 267 days in the dark at 25 °C and 315 days in the dark at 31 °C, which is the longest persistence reported for this herbicide. AMPA, the microbial transformation product of glyphosate, was detected under all conditions, confirming that degradation was mediated by the native microbial community. This study demonstrates glyphosate is moderately persistent in the marine water under low light conditions and is highly persistent in the dark. Little degradation would be expected during flood plumes in the tropics, which could potentially deliver dissolved and sediment-bound glyphosate far from shore.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X14000228

Glyphosate is Most Resistant to Biodegredation in Sea Water

In this unique study in Australia scientists have shown that Glyphosate (Roundup) primarily in GM agriculture, is particularly resistant to biodegradation in sea water, and could therefore be a major contributor to the decline of marine coral reef systems such as the Great Barrier Reef.

Find Full Paper Here

Glyphosate persistence in seawater

Dr Lorrin Pang, Maui pesticide disclosure testimony, 1.31.14 Maui County Council Pesticide GMO Bill

Dr. Pang talks about mixing more than 70 pesticides in applications together is 10 to the 23rd power in terms of possible chemical combinations, and each making the other even more power toxicant.
That is more then the grains of sand on the beach.
The opposite effect of winning the lottery is to not be affected by the pesticide damage and injury to our body.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znyyrMeWqTo

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Scientists discover double meaning in genetic code

All this time bio-tech has said not to worry. They had it all figured out. Well, they were only half right.

Scientists have discovered a second code hiding within DNA. This second code contains information that changes how scientists read the instructions contained in DNA and interpret mutations to make sense of health and disease.

Genome scientist Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos led a team that discovered a second code hidden in DNA.

A research team led by Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos, University of Washington associate professor of genome sciences and of medicine, made the discovery. The findings are reported in the Dec. 13 issue of Science.

Read the research paper.  Also see commentary in Science, “The Hidden Codes that Shape Protein Evolution.”

The work is part of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements Project, also known as ENCODE. The National Human Genome Research Institute funded the multi-year, international effort. ENCODE aims to discover where and how the directions for biological functions are stored in the human genome.

Since the genetic code was deciphered in the 1960s, scientists have assumed that it was used exclusively to write information about proteins. UW scientists were stunned to discover that genomes use the genetic code to write two separate languages. One describes how proteins are made, and the other instructs the cell on how genes are controlled. One language is written on top of the other, which is why the second language remained hidden for so long.

“For over 40 years we have assumed that DNA changes affecting the genetic code solely impact how proteins are made,” said Stamatoyannopoulos. “Now we know that this basic assumption about reading the human genome missed half of the picture. These new findings highlight that DNA is an incredibly powerful information storage device, which nature has fully exploited in unexpected ways.”

The genetic code uses a 64-letter alphabet called codons. The UW team discovered that some codons, which they called duons, can have two meanings, one related to protein sequence, and one related to gene control. These two meanings seem to have evolved in concert with each other. The gene control instructions appear to help stabilize certain beneficial features of proteins and how they are made.

The discovery of duons has major implications for how scientists and physicians interpret a patient’s genome and will open new doors to the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

“The fact that the genetic code can simultaneously write two kinds of information means that many DNA changes that appear to alter protein sequences may actually cause disease by disrupting gene control programs or even both mechanisms simultaneously,” said Stamatoyannopoulos.

Grants from the National Institutes of Health U54HG004592, U54HG007010, and UO1E51156 and National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases FDK095678A funded the research.

In addition to Stamatoyannopoulos, the research team included Andrew B. Stergachis, Eric Haugen, Anthony Shafer, Wenqing Fu, Benjamin Vernot, Alex Reynolds, and Joshua M. Akey, all from the UW Department of Genome Sciences, Anthony Raubitschek of the UW Department of Immunology and Benaroya Research Institute, Steven Ziegler of Benaroya Research Institute, and Emily M. LeProust, formerly of Agilent Technologists and now with Twist Bioscience.

Stephanie H. Seiler heads the communications agency Gemini BioProjects LLC.

RNAi Monsanto's NEW GAME to try and FIX The Destruction My Testimony Maui GMO Pesticide Bill

Aloha Maui County Counsel and Citizens of Maui,

My name is Kimberly Usher and I live in Wailuku.

You may have seen my Maui News letters to the editor and a Check-It-Out column back in 2006 where I pointed out that the top of Ho'okipa and Pauwela needed a fence to protect tourists from falling down the cliffs. Still none at Pauwela, and even if it was a short one that didn't go all the way across it would be better then nothing.

I am sending testimony today about Bill for Maui County Pesticides and Genetically Modified Organisms~Introduced by Council Member Elle Cochran

I am in support of...

•Mandatory disclosure of pesticides and genetically modified organisms.

•Pesticide buffer zones.

•Environmental and public health impacts study

•Worker protection standards

•Pesticide pre-application good neighbor courtesy notices

AND.....DEMAND COUNCILMEMBER RIKI HOKAMA SCHEDULE A HEARING FOR COUNCILMEMBER COCHRAN'S AMENDED VERSION.

I myself have had a long personal history of pesticide poisoning...

I should have died the last time but didn't thanks to Mr. Richard Amedeo of Paia, and retired County Parks and Recreation supervisor in the upcountry area. Mr Amedeo was the person who started Maui's soccer program and was the coach and referee for many sports activities. He is Maui's unsung hero and should have a sports facility named after him.

He helped me move to where I live in Wailuku, and in return I invited him over for dinner ever Thursday night...One night when he came I told him I was too sick to cook, and he understood when he saw my condition. It is hard to explain exactly the sickness but I could not walk and was very weak...

He left, and the next morning returned. Richard told me that God had come to him in the night and asked him to come to my house everyday until I got better. He came every day with a cup of carrot juice and a cup of beet juice from Mana Foods in Paia. And when Richard left he took a load of laundry and returned it the next day dry and folded.

Richard lived on a fixed income and had his own responsibilities, besides the almost $5 a gallon gas at the time... He told me he had never in his life seen anybody as sick as me, as he sat in a chair by my bed, where I could barely move. At the beginning it was so strange to see all the different types of horrors my body was going through. All muscles and joints were involved with so much pain and swelling.

For 3 months I could not lean against the back of a chair or lay back in bed. I had to sit up and could not sleep for those 3 months. Every morning I cried when I saw the blue sky come, because it meant another day I survived. I could not lay back because the blood supply would stop circulating to my arms. I lost 10cm of fingers and toes- which was terribly painful.

I could not get wet ...just one drop of water would set my body off into terrible chills. I could not go into air conditioning because it would start a cascade of symptoms. My hands and feet were turning blue, and all the vessels in them collapsed. I could not lift my arms to feed myself. Richard brought food and spoon fed me.

Richard took me to the doctors 3 times a week for 5 months...I went to a lot of different doctors. All claiming my own body was attacking itself. I was diagnosed with frost bite at one time. Rheumatoid arthritis was diagnosed by some doctors, and then by others that it was not that. Finally one doctor recognized that my blood was not clotting right. I was diagnosed with a blood clotting disorder, finally, and given blood thinners in September 2008, after severe suffering since April 2008, but began that January 2008.

NO DOCTOR HAS OR WILL INVESTIGTE PESTICIDE POISON. I begged them to. 30 doctors refuse to step into the danger zone of going against their masters- the pharmaceutical corporations. It would go bad for them. Since every chemical corporation has a pharmaceutical company spin-off. I could not even get a note that was required where I live to stop the poisoning!

HOW HARD IS THAT!

Right now I am pretty close to being better, but who knows when I will wake in the middle of the night and not be able to move again...And that lasting for a year or more. Because this was not the 1^st time this illness happened to me...4 times now. Starting in 1995, then 2001, and in 2006. each time a pesticide was put in my home or work environment. It was hidden- beyond my control.

That's why I ask for this bill to be passed, so we can understand and see the health aspects of what is happening around us. To free doctors from the yolk and burden of standing alone with no support from the community to address pesticide poisoning.

As it has turned out- Where I live now... was a pesticide mixing house for the Wailuku sugar mill and the soil here has 2 or more times the safe level of arsenic and dioxin in it. This binds to the soil for 100 years. Add more chemicals to that, like round-up, and it becomes more toxic. We all know very well that Maui has being sprayed on tens of thousands of acres and it is bound to the soil everywhere at this point after 150 years of sugar cane. WE ARE IN A DANGER ZONE ...Adding more danger every time we add to the toxic soup.

Now we have RNAi technology in experimental processes. They want spray us with genetically modified RNA... DO SOME RESEARCH.

Here is just a little something.

Monsanto CEO and officers sales of their stocks 3^rd week January 2014.
It was hinged on an agreement with a company that injects bioteched lipids into RNA that happened at the beginning of the 5 day sell-off.
The CEO, VP Human Resources,VP and treasurer, and Chief Technology officer sold off 14,716,480 million dollars ($) in Monsanto stock.
"Monsanto is expending a fair portion of its resources on RNAi applications for the western corn rootworm, which is slowly developing resistance to the B.t. corn trait.

The company is also working on topical sprays to deliver RNAi that impairs the metabolic functions of target insects.

The company hopes to use the technology to protect crops from viruses and disease as well as insects.

Monsanto declined an interview request for this story because a spokesperson said it’s too early to discuss the technology. It is still in the discovery phase, which is the earliest stage of Monsanto’s research and development work.

Commercialization of the technology may be five to 10 years away, but critics are already lining up to condemn RNAi as dangerous.

Greenpeace questions the safety of RNAi, suggesting it could suppress gene expression in other species, including humans."
http://www.producer.com/2013/05/rna-interference-technology-could-be-farmings-next-big-thing/

 THEY WILL BE SPRAYING THIS EXPERIMENT WITH RNAi ALL OVER OUR ISLANDS... If we let them. Monsanto "HOPES" to use this technology to...? Why not say will? Because the technology is not proven. And where are the field trials they are talking about? On Maui?

WE NEED TO KNOW!!!!

I know that the Hawaii Public Retirement system is running scared, due mostly to fear of the future ..
They no longer report where the investments are in the markets, but looking at past years when they did, there is no doubt their investment is right in march step with biotech. Bank of Hawaii and First Hawaiian are also heavily invested in Monsanto.
"The largest risks for the ERS going forward, Ward and Machida said, are payroll growth, investment performance, actual contributions and mortality."

http://watchdog.org/120271/hawaii-state-retirement-system-short-89-billion/

Take a stand, and commit to the public and our right to know. Your pensions are always in doubt because of the markets volatility. To try and play both sides of the game is not a solution.

You have either stepped into public office to do right by the A'ina and the life here, or you don't.

Choose.

Kimberly Usher

244-0613

2049A-8 Holowa Pl.

Wailuku, Maui, HI

PS... I used to have a job and all the good things that went with it. Now I am disabled and on SSI due to my physical disability. 

Stop protecting and supporting pesticide use..

Public Testimony from Family, Nurses, Doctors- Birth Defects on Kaua'i

Hemo Wai Bros. " 'Aina Warriors" from Molokai...

"We are not feeding the world here..."

Hawaiians Testify About Birth Defects From Spraying of GMO Crops

This will get to you if nothing else will.

How anyone could not vote to pass, strip the bill, or veto Bill 2491 is beyond reason...especially because these people sat through this testimony...

http://tv.greenmedinfo.com/hawaiians-testify-birth-defects-spraying-gmo-crops/#sthash.ZApWpT6b.BlHiuEJG.dpuf

Monsanto and Minion Review!

1899: Skretting is founded in Norway as an agricultural merchant.
1928: Hendrix Voeders is founded as an agricultural products wholesaler, which enters the animal feed business in the 1930s.
1931: Adolph Trouw founds a company producing vitamin and mineral mixes for animal feeds, and later begins its own production of animal feeds.
1963: Skretting begins producing extruded fish feeds, which becomes its sole focus. 
1968: Moore-Clark is founded in Canada.
1975: British Petroleum establishes BP Nutrition and acquires Trouw. 
1979: BP Nutrition acquires Hendrix.
1980: Trouw acquires Skretting.
1981: Trouw Chile is founded.
1986: BP Nutrition acquires Purina Mills and Moore-Clark.
1994: Nutreco is formed from the management-led buyout of BP Nutrition.
1997: Nutreco lists on the Amsterdam stock exchange.
2000: Nutreco acquires most of Hydro Seafood from Norsk Hydro.
2003: All fish feed operations are regrouped under the Skretting name.
 BP's chemical interests also expanded during this period, especially after 1978, when it acquired major European assets from Union Carbide and Monsanto.

http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Nutreco-Holding-NV-Company-History.html

A patent that starts the fatty production in a farmed fish. I wonder if that is a clue that GMO foods can do that to us...change our lipids (fats) ...
Here is the patent for the Aguafeed.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0299083.html

Did you know that Minerals Management Services (MMS), the same government agency that over sees off-shore drilling, is also in charge of Fish Farms? 

Are the growing this Aguafeed on Kaua'i, Molokai, Maui or Oahu?

Worm Castings Outlawed? Chemical fertilizers ONLY! FDA "Food Safety Modernization" Comments End Nov. 22nd

"In addition, FDA’s proposed rule treats all of the following soil amendments as if they were raw manure:
*Compost made without specific heating periods (farmers often refer to this as “static composting,” but the FDA has defined that term differently);
*Vermicompost or worm castings;
*Compost teas with any additives, even simple molasses or kelp meal;
*Any compost that does not meet the precise methods and testing requirements specified in the rule.
The practical effect of the proposed rule is to allow synthetic chemicals to be easily used, while making the use of many natural soil amendments difficult or even impossible for many farmers."

http://farmandranchfreedom.org/fda-proposed-food-safety-regulations-2013/

Action Alert

FDA Food Safety Comment Deadline is now Nov. 22 !
(Extended from Nov. 15)

Your Electronic Voice Can Help Save the Family Farms Producing Our Nation’s Best Food. It’s the 11th hour.  Please comment directly on the FDA’s food safety web page to help save our nation’s organic/local produce farmers from potential ruin!  The FDA’s proposed food safety rules threaten to ensnare many of the country’s safest farmers in a tangle of expensive, misdirected regulations that may force many of our best farmers out of business.

http://www.cornucopia.org/fda-online-comment/

• For the Preventive Controls Rule:  FDA-2011-N-0920 and RIN 0910-AG36
• For the Produce Rule:  FDA-2011-N-0921 and RIN 0910-AG35

If you want to comment on both rules, you can mail them together but must label your comments with BOTH of those docket numbers.

http://www.fda.gov/Food/guidanceregulation/FSMA/ucm334114.htm

Just a little PEEP from us might at least get some complaints into the record...

We will use it as evidence that they all know full well the actions taken by FDA/Monsanto is a conspiracy to make money in any and every way they can...Off of our health and our families' bodies...

We Can Inspire Other People; Together...

It has been crazy....trying to open other's eyes; after being been misinformed and uninformed on the reality of chemical corporations poisoning us and the Earth.
No longer Teflon, Monsanto and Minions will be stopped in their tracks...

"Today Kaua'i tomorrow the world! Template is set and now we cut and paste it! FREEDOM from tyranny !! How awesome!"

Victory for Kauai GMO opponents!!!

Mayor Bernard Carvalho vetoed  Bill2491 passed 10 days earlier... on October 31st 2013, and on Saturday, November 16th 2013, the veto was over ridden by the county council...The state has also stepped in by announcing all pesticide use must be reported too...

We should be alarmed...Pediatricians are!

Gary Hooser::

"Today is a day to celebrate and to reflect on our success. It has been a long and bumpy road and there are so many people to thank and to acknowledge. The passage of Bill 2491 is a major accomplishment of our community, a testament to grass roots democracy and perseverance against all obstacles. The chemical companies threw everything they had at us. We persevered speaking truth to power and won. 
To be clear this is not over and even yesterday the attorney for Syngenta has again threatened to sue us, saying a law suit is a certainty. The arrogance of this company has no limit. This is the very same company whose chemical spraying is suspected of sending the children of Waimea Middle School to the hospital and whose primary product Atrazine is banned in their own country or origin. Instead of acknowledging and respecting the people and the decision of the elected body of Kauai County, they insist on trying to force their agenda, hide their use of toxic chemicals and continue spraying their pesticides near Kauai schools, hospitals and homes. Clearly they continue to underestimate the resolve of our commitment. Imua."