Corn Maiden Stands against Frankenfoods in GMO-Occupied Hawaii

Competition Finalist

This entry has been selected as a finalist in the
GMO Risk or Rescue? Helping Consumers Decide competition.

We will create and distribute in a educational campaign, packets of identity-preserved corn with information on how and why to plant plots of real corn adjacent to the 6,000 acres of GMO seed corn in production now in Hawaii.

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Section 1: About You

Prénom

Eden

Nom

Peart

URL du site Web

Organization

Hawaii SEED

Pays

États Unis

Section 2: About Your Organization

Nom

Hawaii SEED

Téléphone

808 756 1269

Adresse

PO Box 2352 Kealakelua, HI

Pays

États Unis

Your idea

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Name Your Project

Corn Maiden Stands against Frankenfoods in GMO-Occupied Hawaii

Country your work focuses on

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What makes your approach innovative?

The GMO industry has banked on Hawai'i 's aloha and made our islands the world center of unregulated GMO field testing and exploits over 6,000 acres of our best farmlands and ag ricultural resources to grow GMO seed corn that pollutes the rest of the world! We have organized to counter this over the past 10 years and are now ready to engage everyone who lives adjacent to GMO seed corn fields to honor the Corn Maiden ~ by planting and tending a plot of beautiful identity-preserved heritage Painted Mountain corn developed by www.seedweneed.com. These plots will allow Hawaii's concerned citizens to assert our right to food sovereignty and to allign with peoples everywhere in honoring the gift of life given to the People from the Corn Maiden ages ago. We will be able to document and bring public attention to the likely contamination that results from the Biotech interlopers and even possibly bring about a class action suit. People of Native American descent living here and growing their plots will be able to demonstate infringement of their right to practice their religion as well.

Describe Your Idea

We will create and distribute in a educational campaign, packets of identity-preserved corn with information on how and why to plant plots of real corn adjacent to the 6,000 acres of GMO seed corn in production now in Hawaii.

How will you sustain your solution?

We will utilize our existing network of community organizations including GMO-Free Hawaii organizations, Native Hawaiian groups, Farmers groups, Consumer/Citizen groups etc. to publicize our effort and findings. We will also continue to redistribute seed grown from these first plantings in an on-going movement to draw attention to the many problems induced by Biotech "solutions."

What will be the impact of your solution?

We will demonstrate how we can and will feed each other (and rise to our opportunitry to grow identity -preserved seed for the world!) while making Hawaii GMO Free!

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134 weeks agoEden Peart said: Mahalo for your mana'o (thanks for your shared ideas/wisdom~) This is what we are hoping to do - especially to remind us and honor ... about this Competition Entry. - lire plus >
134 weeks agoHarvest Lakelander said: I just learned earlier today that most GMO corn seeds for global distribution are grown in Hawaii. I've been wondering where they were ... about this Competition Entry. - lire plus >
135 weeks agoSarah Mintz updated this Competition Entry.
135 weeks agoEden Peart submitted this idea.