"Anybody you see around here dressed in a Tyvek suit will be
someone from Greenpeace," David Stoltzfus joked as we surveyed the
thousands of carefully numbered corn plants growing in the stony
rust-colored soil of a former sugar cane plantation just a few
miles inland from the spectacular Wailea Beach. Stoltzfus, who
heads Monsanto's Piilani seed production farm on Maui, was
referring to the white disposable coveralls that protesters wear
for the TV cameras when "decontaminating" biotech crop fields.
Hawaii is the epicenter of a furious campaign to shut down production farms that yield genetically modified seed. It was September, and I was there to see for myself the "Frankencorn" that haunts activists' choleric imaginations.
Anti-biotech signs and literature were scattered across the Hawaiian Islands. The Crystals and Gems Gallery in Hanalei, a trendy little town on Kauai, displayed several protest posters and offered fliers urging a ban on biotech crops. The gallery is the sort of place where, when my wife picked up an attractive stone and asked a clerk what it was, the reply was, "Do you mean, 'What does it do?' " Apparently, that particular rock can dispel negativity.
http://reason.com/archives/2014/01/15/the-fable-of-hawaiian-frankenc
Hawaii is the epicenter of a furious campaign to shut down production farms that yield genetically modified seed. It was September, and I was there to see for myself the "Frankencorn" that haunts activists' choleric imaginations.
Anti-biotech signs and literature were scattered across the Hawaiian Islands. The Crystals and Gems Gallery in Hanalei, a trendy little town on Kauai, displayed several protest posters and offered fliers urging a ban on biotech crops. The gallery is the sort of place where, when my wife picked up an attractive stone and asked a clerk what it was, the reply was, "Do you mean, 'What does it do?' " Apparently, that particular rock can dispel negativity.
http://reason.com/archives/2014/01/15/the-fable-of-hawaiian-frankenc
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