States have authority to ban, Hawai‘i counties left out in landmark decisions

Hawai‛i’s people recently took the next step in the battle to protect themselves and their environment from genetically engineered crops.

Hawai’i has quietly undergone an agricultural revolution whereby chemical companies treat the islands as pesticide testing grounds for GE crops, but communities are fighting back.

A coalition of local farmers and environmental groups have filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit to defend a Hawai‘i County ordinance that imposes a moratorium on the expansion of genetically engineered (GE) crops on the Big Island. Sustainable agriculture nonprofit, Center for Food Safety (CFS), and three Hawai‘i Island farmers asked the court…

Groups seek to intervene as biotech firms attempt to roll back regulations on genetically engineered crops