Corn Maiden Stands against Frankenfoods in GMO-Occupied Hawaii
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.
About You
Section 1: About You
First Name
Eden
Last Name
Peart
Website
Organization
Hawaii SEED
Country
United States
Section 2: About Your Organization
Organization Name
Hawaii SEED
Organization Website
Organization Phone
808 756 1269
Organization Address
PO Box 2352 Kealakelua, HI
Organization Country
United States
Your idea
Name Your Project
Corn Maiden Stands against Frankenfoods in GMO-Occupied Hawaii
Country your work focuses on
United States
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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I just learned earlier today that most GMO corn seeds for global distribution are grown in Hawaii. I've been wondering where they were are all produced.
The planting of non gmo corn next to the modified stuff is a brilliant idea. Misinformation has created significant confusion about GMO's. Unfortunately, we must now bear witness to the actual physical destructive impacts and ask average citizens to bring forward scientific evidence that substantiates our true and valid concerns (This fact does not cease to shock me). Your idea inspires application of empirical science AND remembrance of the noble and nourishing Corn 'Maiden' who for millenia, swiftly changed and transformed herself, adapting to a great variety of climates and environments, always in service of the gardeners and gathers who tended her. May that adaptability inherent in nature never be squeezed out by terminator genes and sterile pollen.
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 the gift of Life that is nourishing food. It will be just one approach to all the ways we need to work together to transform the gross misappropriation of life that is the essence of agricultural genetic engineering.
A major challenge is the perpetuation of at least a couple of myths generated by the Biotech industry : 1) "Co-existence" - that natural farming and or organic or even conventional agriculture can "co-exist" with GE (without contamination ) - proven impossible in a rather recent report from Spain for instance.
2) that GE is needed to feed the world. Everyday I am surprised by how many and who (otherwise 'green, 'educated' folks for instance,) believe this. I believe this is especially insipid propaganda since it expoits a very humane natural expression of caring and generosity which we all have - the desire to feed each other. The IAASTD report is a good concise counter to this lie - basically this huge, authoritative report concluded that Biotech and it's yields and other measures of performance have been grossly overrated and it is actually ONLY small organic farms with their diversity and resiliency that truly have the capacity to feed the world's projected 2050 population of an estimated 9 billion of us.
One more thing - : ) I heard a funny definition of the acronym "GMO" this weekend - "Move over God."
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