Hawaii is ground zero: banning, not labeling GMOs
by Jon Rappoport
December 5, 2014
NoMoreFakeNews.com
Let me put it this way. It would mean a lot more than winning a few GMO-labeling initiatives.
“The right to choose what’s in your food” does not stop the ongoing
gene drift, from GMO crops to non-GMO, across America. This drift is
well on its way to making organic crops into genetically modified food,
whether we like it or not.
And the blown-on-wind spread of tons and tons of Roundup, the poisonous Monsanto herbicide so “vital” to GMO farming…well, that’s straight-out chemical warfare.
As it continues, what organic farmer will be able to guarantee his crops are pristine?
In Hawaii, we have a far different situation. Voters on the Big Island, Maui, and Kauai, against all odds, have
managed to pass measures that would block Monsanto (and other biotech
giants) from continuing their GMO/pesticide operations.
In other words, ban, not label.
However, on the Big Island and Kauai, the corrupt court system has (so far) rendered the voters’ decisions null and void. On Maui, the same tactic is in progress.
Hawaii isn’t just a small biotech center. Huge numbers of GMO seeds are produced and shipped out around the world.
Monsanto, Dow, Pioneer, and BASF are doing intensive R&D to develop new GMO seeds and new poisonous pesticides (which they are spraying on the people of Hawaii).
Cutting off their work in Hawaii would be a major victory.
However, if you did an overall survey of news sites, including
independent centers of reporting, you’d find GMO labeling has been
garnering far more coverage than the bans enacted in several US counties
or the struggle in Hawaii.
Why is that?
One reason: the anti-Monsanto movement in America has been shaped and funded to be about product-labeling.
Because it’s about shopping and choosing and buying and consuming, it seems to have more “broad appeal.”
But how well is that soft approach going to work in the face of the
biotech fait accompli—gene drift plus pesticide drift, blanketing the
whole country, penetrating all food crops?
According to “received wisdom,” banning GMOs and their attendant pesticides is a much harder sell.
In past articles, I’ve outlined an attack strategy against the
biotech giants that could have worked at the outset of the anti-GMO
movement—and could still work. I won’t run it all down here. Suffice
to say, it is predicated on the understanding that we are in a late-game
situation, and the clock is ticking.
The biotech crime bosses are running the show—our
show—into the ground. The sane response is to go all-out on the
offensive. This is miles beyond avoiding a potato in the market labeled
“GMO.”
And by the way, who would be in charge of putting those GMO labels on
foods? The state governments where the labeling initiatives pass?
Really? You would trust that process to be both honest and competent?
The leaders of the labeling movement apparently welcome the prospect
of Monsanto and their allies suing states in which labeling initiatives
or laws pass. This is a chance to expose the shady tactics of the
biotech giants.
I would point out, though, that such court battles would ultimately impact only the labeling issue, nothing more.
Yes, it would represent another small step in educating the public
about these monster corporations—but small steps that come too late are
not useful.
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