GMO CROPS AND HAWAII - Hawaii being sued by BIG AGRA for limiting GMO crops

As was expected, Big Biotech’s legal juggernaut has rolled into action in Hawai’i. On Friday afternoon, three big agrochemical companies — Pioneer-DuPont, Syngenta, and Agrigenetics Inc (a subsidiary of Dow Chemical) —  filed a suit in a federal court in Honolulu seeking to block Kauai County’s new GMO regulatory law. Two other big agribusiness concerns on the island that will be affected by the law — Kauai Coffee and BASF — haven’t joined the suit.

Many residents, especially those living on the west side of the island where most of the biotech companies’ fields are located, are deeply concerned about the health and environmental impact of the large volumes of pesticides used these fields. Three-two four crop harvests a year, they say, means a tripling or quadrupling of the amount of pesticide used — way over what’s used in fields, GMO or otherwise — on typical farms. Many local doctors and nurses, teachers and parents are especially worried that exposure to pesticides is harming children. 

http://www.alternet.org/food/hawaii-latest-battleground-over-genetically-modified-crops?page=0%2C1&akid=11405.294211.nyuIhB&rd=1&src=newsletter947249&t=19