Anti-GMO Activists Win Victory On Hawaiian Island

biobricks writes "New York Times reports on how the county council on the Big Island of Hawaii banned GMOs. 'Urged on by Margaret Wille, the ban’s sponsor, who spoke passionately of the need to “act before it’s too late,” the Council declined to form a task force to look into such questions before its November vote. But Mr. Ilagan, 27, sought answers on his own. In the process, he found himself, like so many public and business leaders worldwide, wrestling with a subject in which popular beliefs often do not reflect scientific evidence. At stake is how to grow healthful food most efficiently, at a time when a warming world and a growing population make that goal all the more urgent.'"

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Re:going after GMO is like banning screwdrivers

[Mashiki]

I have to ask, how much longer are you going to be alive? Going by your post, you don't eat anything. Not even common "green" varieties of foods which have been genetically modified by crossbreeding various strains to make them resistant or immune to particular types of fungi or insects.

Well then again I suppose you could be surviving on a diet of seaweed, and personally I do like seaweed and kelp flavored food...but to survive on it? Not sure if that's possible...