today these islands face an uncertain future and the survival of this natural paradise is being threatened. why mere valley. was my school. lease is the way i learned to hunt and fish. to enjoy. this whole

valley. i used to go hunting from here i'd saddle up my mules and that right all the way into the valley. valley was a very. self-sustaining neighborhood. a lot of the people were hunted some were fishermen a lot of them had small businesses of the own a lot of the people were farmers we weren't they gantz. agriculture because all of the farmers up here were all tariff almos. so we all had to work hard we all had to respect each other the fad use that were given to us by our family he taught you all do stings that you need in your life to survive if. i was raised by immigrant grandparents. to

appreciate what. has given me. but some of reduced. the establishment of a large sugar plantations was kind of the colonial force that really hold these islands into the chains of global capital agricultural production and left behind the legacy of consolidated land ownership control over water rights and really that this and franchise men and marginalization of indigenous people and their homelands . my home is located in a while called white in a place known as kick off on the west side of i 6 years ago i was awarded hawaiian homestead the mixed blessing was that i had annoyed what i would be surrounded by a few years after moving to that neighborhood in the late 1980 s.

with a lot of the sugarcane plantations shutting down and with economy overly dependent on tourism policymakers in both hawaii and washington started conversations about making hawaii a center of biotechnology research both to diversify the economy and to take over some of the agricultural economy that was being lost and we had the highest number of open air field test sites of anywhere in the nation we've had over $3300.00 permits issued for such testing sense that began in the early ninety's. so they grew fruit in these fields. with. us. why these climate means

multiple formulations can be tested in the same fields will you it's all about the chemicals and the reason it's all about the chemicals is that the g.m. seed companies are also the chemical companies and they are breeding seeds that then depends totally on the chemicals that they also manufacture. in genetic engineering unlike what happens in nature where you have sex and you have mating of organisms in genetic engineering you're doing it in a test tube where you're transferring genes from one organism into another organism or you're editing the genome of that organism using cut and paste techniques let's say you have a tomato and you want to make the tomato resilient or impervious to cold and much more durable you could take the genes of

a flounder and transfer it into the genome of the tomato. they're not interested in feeding the world there is didn't feeding their bottom line and that bottom line is selling more and more chemicals disaster they make that's what the shareholders want feeding the world was always a greenwashing of a technology whose aim was to sell more chemicals chemical companies are experimenting in hawaii with these g.m. seeds using many many times allowable limits of pesticides using pesticides that are banned in europe. because of their potential danger both to the environment and human health. restrict and use pesticides are are those that have been banned for

residential use by the federal government because of evidence that they are harmful to human health in 2000 the e.p.a. bancorp pyra fos in many household products like insecticides after research showed it cause nausea in dizziness especially in children who later studies found children exposed prenatal lead to the past decide how to increase odds of developmental and attention disorders. is however authorized for use for agricultural purposes and it's still used massively for that reason basically the federal government has granted syngenta and pioneer the right to test pesticides here on this island outside of what the label mandates states including hawaii started to pass some of their own laws to regulate these open air field test sites and as this kind of patchwork regulatory framework came into being they said oh we better go out to the feds and design something that works for us when you

look at what's happening on the west side it's mainly made. and work in communities of color that are being most impacted and a lot of the lands that these chemical companies operate on are state lands which are lands that were stolen from the overthrown kingdom of hawaii and are contested still and are supposed to be held in trust for the betterment of native hawaiians whether it be doing the sugar era where they would be doing upaya now. we are in the biotech era. they're exercising this corporate profit over the welfare of the people right now coyle is ground 0 for 4 of the largest chemical corporations in the world for their experimental scene production. and they're. there doing their experiments and. we're live approximately 500 yards away from where chemicals in the dust come from.

has a great effect on us it took away our lives. you can't see it in the yard and enjoy your yard that you've worked hard for. drift is relevant in real between these chemicals and transport through the environment there's no telling where these pesticides will end up some of the chemicals they last couple of months after life 10 months they don't want to. put out fumes so now you're moving particles putting out a few fumes will travel straight as the wind my neighbors there experimented with corn did do an experience there just in different pesticide cocktails.

nobody knows what these chemicals will do the humans they've never been tested no. nobody has ever proven them safe is a huge guinea pig experiment and it's clearly a violation of the nurnberg code that says any kind of human experimentation is illegal unless there is informed consent. and that there is a clear legal capacity for people to opt out if they choose not to be experimented on those people know i are living daily under violations of the nuremberg code. our state agencies are violating the civil rights laws of our country by completely ignoring the fact that their actions are putting at risk predominantly native hawaiian populations they are leasing lands without requiring any kind of protections for the people that live near these operations and if you look at the

populations of people that live closest to these fields what you find is that there is a larger predominance of native hawaiian resident near these particular areas.

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with them to i don't want that for i confess i mean yes i knew she needed that down in the community yeah i am kind of whom he gets killed and he had a chicken dance in the night he made a move on to follow the man that you know enough about him before out of the. you know world a big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. officer. told him to get up off the ground and the officer began to pet him down.

and then place on the sounds of kind of fighting into the grown man like wrestling essentially the officer burly guy go through his drawn. individually twisted away from the officer holding the toys out of his crib. the obvious or did they kind of lunge for the weapon once missed and then what happened on tree swung at the officers hands didn't hit him i never saw any contact between the 2 any kind with back to where they were so the officers back here there try again 15 feet apart at this point and that's when the officer pulled out his gun and he did it on 3. genetic engineering is a discipline and the product is a g.m.o.

bt corn is a corn plant that is a g.m.o. now when they genetically engineered this bt corn they had an objective the objective was to create a corn plant that would be resistant to insects so there's 2 ways they could do that one is you take a piece of corn and you throw pesticide on it the other way with genetic engineering is you take corn you extract the genome of a bacterium and you insert it into the genome of that corn and what you've got now is a new corn in this case is called bt corn and every cell of that corn plant creates its own internal insecticide. in the early eighty's monsanto found a bacteria that was stans their herbicide roundup they were let's take d.n.a. from that bacteria put it into corn and eventually soy and cotton plants they said now we've got it you can ariel spray those crops with these toxic herbicides kill the waves and the crops survive we have not done adequate that's you're going to see the issue is the chronic effects the long term for that's important no

because people are chronically exposed so much so that irrespective of whether or not it accumulates they carry a load we know it's in the mother's milk whether or not it crosses in neutral to the placenta barrier i don't know but the issue was raised with the e.p.a. . why did she look for the chronic effects of glad to see a constant exposure and they said because it never accumulates 1st of all accumulate means you keep building it up like money in the bank but it doesn't matter if it accumulates or not if you're exposed to it every day or everywhere.

to grow g m o's that they're doing is they're just dumping copious amounts of poisons and chemicals on thousands and thousands of acres of these experimental crops extorts schools sure ames' waterways likely right into the ocean animals are getting sick before getting sick federal government hardly regulates experimental genetically engineered crops in any meaningful way it essentially allows the companies to grow what they want to grow allowing open air field trials of these very biologically potent crops. the state of hawaii has a hands off attitude towards this industry. we live on him i don't. we live on an island that has finite natural resources one of our and resources is our drinkable water 40 years ago the

chemical companies that formed the model we use d.d.t. spring chemicals on to the point of who feels these fuels. got into our water aquifer and tainted our drinkable water if you want to have an experimental plot to test a new chemical should be mandated this be done under controlled circumstances closed systems not. making the world your test tube the world your laboratory. the chemicals that they put under the ground are going to infiltrate through this oils into the water and they're going to wash off the rivers and streams and they will accumulate the air and it will by all amplify and concentrate in the food chain up the food chain indeed human being and. they'll cause illness and know and they'll diminish quality of life and they'll diminish the potential of

these children we would wake up and my daughters would sometimes have really bad headaches and prior to moving. into our home we had never experienced things like that so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of environmental racism going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power yes it's racism it's clear to be that native hawaiians and others who are socio economically less advantaged are. taking the brunt of this industry when you look at the history of the chemical corporations that we're talking about we're talking about corporations that created the nucular p.c. b.s. dioxin. agent orange and many of the top 12 persistent organic pollutants that destroy our world. rachel carson said it in the brookside spring but how it said it

in his book agriculture testament that industry that had gotten used to making chemicals the wall they got so addicted to profits that they've been retooled and redesigned. to make it dependent on these chemicals. a neo nicotine oid is a neurotoxin for an insect so when an insect ingest the neo nicotine oid it actually disrupts the nervous system of that insect so no it is an insecticide which is used to kill an insect in a recent set of publications which are nearly over $800.00 papers they've shown that nicotine oids are actually showing up in the pollen of wild flowers which are then being consumed by b. so the sun their diabetes and butterflies. is thought of the design of the use

only says mccutcheon. what's different about nicotine noids is that they're present all the time this seeds were coated with the near nicotine noids and then the seed was planted the new nicotine oid is water soluble so it goes into the soil the seed sprouts and those seed root tips then take up the new nicotine oid into the plant so the entire plant all the cells all the tissues all the pollutants contain neo nicotine noise and that's how they repel insects and they're in the food because they're systemic pesticides same is true for glide to say they're not on the surface of the apple or the peach sure the whatever it is they're in the fur you can't wash them off.

on the island of kuwait where we have the most information out of all of what you do to activists struggle lawsuits freedom of information requests we know that in 2012 at least 800 tons of restricted use pesticides were bought and probably sprayed on the island we know 1 that pesticides like clip sheriff has application rates probably 10 times the national average. the intensity and frequency of pesticide use it is so high that it led one award winning journalist to call it one of the most toxic agricultural environments and all of american agriculture we know from a lawsuit that pesticides are sprayed by at least one company 250 to 300 days a year 10 to 16 times a day the pesticides there are really. we should be very careful about introducing chemicals that affect the nature of life itself because the unintended

consequences. are already affecting human health in a long term way. and the number one thing is for me as a mom. my daughter's health change prior to observing those changes i had no idea what g.m. agriculture. was so i just started to do research on my own and what i found was very disturbing the studies are very clear the. pediatrics the american cancer institute they all say that people that live and work around agricultural areas where there's heavy pesticide use have higher incidence of cancer of. disease.

after 17 years of the doctor here in hawaii. i'm completely convinced that we have long standing chronic effects of the sides i have no doubt in my mind any longer. my daughter is as mad a she's been to. emergency many times. my grandchildren one of them as. respiratory problems too like she is developing asthma. yeah i mean asthma respiratory infections they're almost the norm on our side of the island and the more i spoke to people the more i discover that it's just kind of a way of life. in the environment and can and is aerosolized it does get into the air that we breathe and when it's taken into the lungs and the smallest air exchange units it can move from the into the bloodstream especially

a pregnant mother's blood stream and we know corporate reforms can cross the placenta and from there it gets into the baby circulation and then crosses into the brain we have looked at the relationship specifically organophosphates and respiratory problems in children and what we found is that it wasn't just prenatal exposure but it was postnatal exposure of the child that was related to their lung function i started work at holar. which is the community health clinic the pattern that i saw was mostly respiratory illness rashes fatigue severe headaches dizziness all sentences that you would see what's pesticide exposure almost all the patients from the fields would come in with their work clothes on their dirty soiled shirts work boots their dirty pants. the front line

of all the impacts of these pesticides are the farm workers so they're the front line and their children are in the front and they often live very near the fields so whether it be the cancers whether it be the birth defects whether it be children getting asthma having cognitive problems these are can be thought most intensely by those workers we have met the effects of organophosphates on the brain particularly the organophosphate pesticide called core pyros the findings in that sample were very striking we thrown to areas of brain in the large ones across regions of the brain that are involved in higher order cognitive processing those regions of abnormalities seem to relate very very tightly to cognitive problems especially in measures of i are an intelligence of these children so that the bigger the abnormality the lower their i.q. so it suggests a fairly tight causal link between the exposures and fetal life with abnormalities

in brain structure and those abnormalities in structure we think produce after maladies in intellectual functioning in these children you can't treat a developmental disability that's structural you can't change that brain function of that brain structure that didn't get to develop from utero age one age to age 3 . i'm often asked where i'm seeing the clusters of disease and developmental problems and to be frank i'm seeing the monk oh i see him in the very places where the chemical companies are doing their year round studies. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic development only mostly exists i

don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. you know world of big. lot and conspiracies it's time to wait to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

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