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EAT.LOCAL
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junk food craving has set in from last night’s frozen pizza “local” local foods. A booth foods front when one scores
o raise awareness immediately prior to my per- binge it makes it a lot easier at the Farmers Market caught LOCALLY MADE BUTTER! What
about the Kanu Hawaii ceived deprivation. My friend to approach the day with an my eye...squid luau, opihi, limu better way to enjoy this creamy
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and the North Kohala Eat How did she know that I have got in late last night and didn’t ing here for 20 years and not (I admit I did eat a big glob off
Locally Grown Campaign a deep and ancient relation- have any time prepare food know how to prepare these a butter knife first.)
(eatlocalhi.org), Andrea ship with Cheetos? They were for today. I scrambled local foods? And worse yet, I don’t
Dean [Hawaii Island] and is my preferred snack food when eggs with Puna goat cheese know how to harvest these nDAY 6- Mangos
eating 100% locally grown I was growing up. Thankfully, feta and simultaneously mi- foods.
for 60 days. The following Mary had a stomach virus and cro-waved a Molokai sweet Mango, the most divine of all
are excerpts from Andrea’s I had the whole bag to myself. potato, hard boiled a few nDAY 3: Where Does Food foods. Who needs other local
blog... eggs, scooped some Waimea Come from Mommy? Costco, foods when there is mango?
Since I am a native New York- strawberries into a Tupper- of course.
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ter @andreadeangreen frozen pizza into my mouth at My moral compass is waver- people (myself included) buy The good news is that today
9:30 pm. ing around the issue of con- food, has a lot of locally grown was kind of an ordinary day. I
diments. The last time I did a vegetables. I found local pa- am not having any trials and
90 day eat local challenge I payas, purple sweet potatoes, tribulations. I am buying my
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nut oil), local salt and used ety of local lettuces. Farmer’s ers Market and trading with
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GMO & TARO
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T
aro (“kalo” in Hawaiian) is
one of Hawaii’s traditional
staple food crops and is
held sacred to the Hawai-
ian tradition. The taro plant is deeply
connected to Hawaiian creation story
in which kalo sprung forth from the
grave of Hsdo’ohokukalani, the pre-
mature child, of Papa Honomaku,
(‘Mother Earth’) and Wakea, (‘ Fa-
ther Sky’). They later birthed a sec-
ond child, Haloa, who was fed by the
sustenance of the kalo plant. Thus,
Kalo became the metaphorical older
sibling and the staple food crop for
the Hawaiian people.
Indigenous Hawaiian cultures relied
upon taro as primary form of suste-
nance and it is widely grown all over
the world today. Its starchy, root-like
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corm is to peel it, scrape it, boil it,
and pound it into the purple, sticky
substance called poi. Poi is said to be
better for you than wheat, potatoes,
rice, or any other starch people rely
on.
Because of its strong cultural value
and nutritional benefit, the mainte-
nance of taro’s agricultural integrity
as a sacred plant is extremely impor-
tant to Hawaiians and many others. In
recent years, controversy has arisen
regarding the future use and own-
ership of traditional Hawaiian culti-
vars of taro. Throughout the past
few decades, major plant breeding
companies and research institutions
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The following is a brief description of
those proceedings.
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Development, colonization, increas-
ing population and climate change all
have put pressure on Hawaii’s culti-
vated and natural ecosystems. Addi-
tionally, modern conventional farm-
ing methods have drastically altered
global farming practices and land-
scapes, affecting every aspect of our
food chain. In the 1960’s the Green
Revolution began, forever changing
global agriculture with the implemen-
tation of industrial mechanization,
high dependence on pesticides/her-
bicides and extensive irrigation sys-
tems. The most recent technologi-
cal revolution in agriculture is the so
called ‘Gene Revolution’ which refers
to the manipulation of plants and
animals at the genetic level.
GMO is the acronym for Genetically
Modified Organism. Genetic modi-
fication refers to the processes by
which DNA molecules from different
sources are combined into one mol-
ecule in order to create a new set of
genes. The DNA is then transferred
into an organism -generally in or-
der to produce new desirable traits.
Currently, genes of different species
are being combined in food crops at
the molecular level without knowl-
edge of their effects on soils, eco-
systems, or human health – and in
many cases, without public approval
or knowledge.
In recent years GMO foods and tech-
nologies have become very contro-
versial, especially with regard to the
cultural rights of Indigenous Peoples
to whom these crops have different
value and use than of that of the
capitalistic agribusiness model.
The American Academy of Environ-
mental Medicine this year said that
genetically modified foods are caus-
ally linked to accelerated aging, dys-
functional immune regulation, organ
damage, gastrointestinal distress,
and immune system damage. In ad-
dition to environmental concerns are
the economic and political issues
that GMO crops present: A study
came out by the Union of Concerned
Scientists confirming that genetically
modified crops, on average, reduce
yield over time. A USDA report from
2006 showed that farmers don’t actu-
ally increase income from GMOs, but
many actually lose income. For the
last several years, the United States
has spent $3-$5 billion per year to
prop up the prices of the GM crops no
one wants (Smith, Jeffrey, 2009).
WHY GMO IN HAWAII?
Many years ago, a decision was made
to allow Hawaii’s soils to become the
nursery for experimental GMO ag-
cultural crops because it is the most
isolated island chain in the world, and
has a year-round growing season. Be-
ginning in the mid-1990s with Gover-
nor Cayetano, multinational agribusi-
ness corporations such as Monsanto,
Dow, Dupont/Pioneer and Syngenta
were incentivized to come and set up
shop. The Hawai‘i Legislature enacted
laws to financially assist and protect
these companies. These laws (Act 22l
and now Act 215) provide investment
capital, give tax subsidies, tax credits
for research activities, exclude royal-
ties from gross income, and give tax
exemptions on stock options (Hawai’I
SEED 2006). Indeed, Hawaii has more
experimental field trials of genetic
engineering than any other state in
the nation. However, Hawaii also has
the most anti-GMO bills introduced
into a legislature out of anywhere in
the country
GMO TAROT PROTESTS
The University of Hawaii (UH) has
long been studying and experiment-
ing with taro. In 2002, UH pat-
ented three varieties of hybridized
(non-genetically engineered) taro,
which were decedents of the Hawai-
ian-Polynesian taro group. Patent
laws were originally designed as
incentive for scientists to continue
to innovate for public benefit and to
protect the rights of those inventors.
However, in recent years, patent
law has become the darling of large
multinational corporations, which
in some cases hold rights identi-
cal to those of an individual. Entire
corporations can now patent, own,
and license plants and animals, and
the genes they contain. With full
support and financial assistance
of federal and state governments,
land-grant universities (such as UH
Manoa) and their regulators the EPA,
FDA, and USDA - the rush is on to
control the seeds of life. Whoever
controls the seed controls the food,
and ultimately the people (Hawai’I
SEED 2006).
In 2003, UH, in conjunction with the
Hawaii Agriculture Research Center
(HARC) began experimenting with ge-
netic engineering of the taro plant.
Locals were outraged when they
found out about this research, and
responded with protests, organizing
and letter writing. Hawaiian oppo-
nents of the taro patents view them
as an infringement on their collective
intellectual property rights because
their ancestors created the original
varieties. The patenting of these plant
varieties meant that farmers who
wanted to purchase breeding stock
had to sign a licensing agreement
with UH which prohibited farmers
from selling or breeding the patented
plants. Farmers were also required
to pay royalties to the university for
using the taro cultivars. Additionally,
many Hawaiians were outraged at be-
ing excluded from the decision mak-
ing process concerning one of their
most sacred plants (Wong 2006).
Members of UH’s College of Tropi-
cal Agriculture and Human Resources
(CTAHR) defended the patents, say-
ing that the University’s goal is to
help taro (kalo) farmers and that the
school deserves to receive profit from
an invention created by one of its
scientists (Wong, 2006).
In June 2006, in response to the pub-
lic outcry, UH dropped its patents on
the three varieties of taro, putting
the plant back in the hands of local
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Hawaiian farmers and citizens. Ap-
proximately 200 people showed up to
the rally at UH campus, participating
in hula, oli, and erecting a large stone
alter dedicated in honor of Haloa,
the sacred ancestor of the Hawaiian
people described at the beginning of
this article. The protests culminated
with a symbolic “lock out” in which
protestors pad locked the doors to
the university’s medical school, the
meeting place for the University
Boards of Regents. Subsequently, UH
officials agreed to enter in direct talks
with protesting groups.
FUTURE OUTLOOKS
Though UH agreed to stop genetic
engineering experiments on the Ha-
waiian varieties, they continue to ma-
nipulate the Chinese Bunlong variety
of taro. Researchers hope to make
the taro resistant to a fungus (phy-
tophthora). This overlooks the causes
of disease and fungus problems with
taro: poor water quality, lack of wa-
ter, lack of diversity, and the loss of
the knowledge about the traditional,
organic, healthy growing techniques.
Many assert that GMO research con-
tinues to disregard native Hawaiian
cultural concerns and could lead to
economic devastation of the taro
market (Hawai’i SEED 2006).
Protests against GMO agriculture are
not new. Indeed, Indigenous Peoples
all over the world have been fighting
for their right to preserve indigenous
knowledge, cultural heritage and land
stewardship practices. In 2003 the
Native Hawaiian Intellectual Property
Rights Conference was held in Ho-
nolulu in order that Native Hawaiians
articulate their right to self determi-
nation and to protect and perpetuate
their cultural traditions. The UN hu-
man Rights Council has passed The
Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples, which among many other
statements, asserts that Indigenous
Peoples have the right to control,
develop and protect “the manifesta-
tions of their sciences, technologies
and cultures, including human and
genetic resources, seeds, medicines,
knowledge of the properties of fauna
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ECO.TECH
EV UPDATE
Nissan, Mitsubishi, Coda,
& WheeGo are just a few of
the companies that plan to
bring 100% electric, highway
approved vehicles to Ha-
waii. WheeGo already has a
35-40MPH demo on island,
and several, not hundreds, of
people have already reserved
the first generation of Nissan
Leaf (scheduled for January
2011). More charging stations
will be the next step for the
growing electric car market.
and flora..” (Schlais 2007).
The controversy over the patenting of
taro (kalo) may be indicative of how SOLAR UPDATE
Western notions of property are in A University of Hawaii team
many ways directly contradictory to was selected as one of only
indigenous traditional knowledge and
20 teams to compete in the
cultural value systems. The main ge-
nealogical creation chant for Native U.S. Dept. of Energy Solar
Hawaiians, the Kumulipo, recounts Decathalone. Look for future
the interdependence of all things. As stories on this topic as we
such, plants, animals, humans and all follow the teams progress to
of the earth’s creatures are one. In
Washington D.C.
this view, the patenting of taro can be
likened to the patenting of one’s older www.solardecathlon.gov
sibling – an unfathomable act.
One of the underlying issues here is
that generally of profit versus cul-
tural maintenance: “The indigenous
view of the world...is the antithesis to
the western paradigm: Communitar-
ian not individual, focused on sharing
rather than shielding things, respect
for land and all living things as sacred
rather than as objects ripe for exploi-
tation and consumption” -Siegfried
Wiessner. BLUE ECONOMY
Gunter Pauli officially intro-
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Draws Protests” Malaki. (2006): 16. is it you ask? “A redesign of
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