purposes and it's still used massively for that reason basically the federal government has granted syngenta and pioneer the right to test the sides 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 working communities of color that are being most impacted and a lot of the lands that these chemical companies operate on are state lands which our 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 a sugar era where they would be doing a pineapple arrow we are in the bio pic era. they're exercising this corporate profit over the welfare of the people right now koa is ground 0 for 4 of the largest chemical corporations in the world for their

library really agitated one of the boys to the health and on the way he collapsed the next morning syngenta was denied denied not we were not spraying anything but the teachers had actually gone out and taken pictures with all this chaos was going on the school and students were being and they were spraying right in the feels right adjacent to. a follow up study was done on that 32 page study the last 4 pages are the chemicals that they have found me i can your middle school we have shown an association between organophosphate exposure as measured by those metabolites in the mother's urine during pregnancy and shorten just station abnormal neonatal reflexes decreased mental development in the children at 2 years of age decreased i.q. at age 7 and 10 years of age pervasive developmental disorder which is like or to some symptoms. attention problems in schooling poor executive functioning in pre-adolescents and we have also shown that there are. people that might be more affected than others i have virtue of their genetics. protecting our kids from chemicals is a common sense thing that every

library really agitated one of the boys to the health and on the way he collapsed the next morning syngenta was denied denied not we.