BREAKING NEWS: Monsanto & Dow have raised and spent the most money in Hawaii election history against the Maui GMO moratorium initiative!!! Hawaii News Now covers the obnoxious $8 million raised and $6 mil spent by basically, Monsanto and Dow calling themselves Citizens Against the Maui County Farming Ban, laughable as its made of multi-national chemical corporations with known histories and convictions for poisoning other communities. Compared to the roughly $75k that the two community ballot committees raised to help pass the Maui GMO moratorium initiative! MUST READ ENTIRE ARTICLE AND MUST WATCH CLIP (hawaiinewsnow/story/27106705/pro-gmo-companies-spend-8-million-to-fight-maui-initiative) with Ashley Lukens, PhD and Director of Hawaii Center for Food Safety and the Hawaii CFS Maui Fund supporting the initiative and canvassing efforts on Maui. Also featuring Rob Stephenson of the Maui Chamber of Commerce which is totally pro-GMO and uses industry affiliates to make outrageous false claims about the initiative trying to stop the people: (Excerpt) Its not citizens against a farming ban. Its agro-chemical companies against the people of Hawaii, said Ashley Lukens, program director for the Hawaii Center for Food Safety. Her group has spent just $15,000 trying to convince voters to vote for the GMO proposal... Lukens said the group has spent far more money than a comprehensive environmental GMO health impact would cost, an amount she estimated at $500,000. Knowing that they would rather spent 12 times that amount fighting the assessment raises major red flags, Lukens said... The industry group (Monsanto/Dow) has spent $6.3 million so far, which equals $72.54 for each registered voter in Maui County. The nearly $8 million the group raised roughly equals the amount of money that all the major candidates spent so far in the statewide governors race this year, including Gov. Neil Abercrombie, State Sen. David Ige, former Lieutenant Gov. Duke Aiona and former Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann. One of the things that we learned after the gubernatorial primary this summer is that money doesnt always buy you love, Lukens said. “At the end of the day, money doesnt vote. People vote.” #Maui #GMO #gmomoratorium #notafarmingban #stoppoisoningparadise #EIS #GMOsareNOTSAFE #gmofreeHawaii #GMOFreeCanada #GMOFreeUSA
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:30:01 +0000
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