{"id":135373,"date":"2014-08-06T20:13:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T20:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=135373"},"modified":"2014-08-06T20:13:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T20:13:56","slug":"fight-continues-moratorium-gmo-crops-hawaiis-big-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/fight-continues-moratorium-gmo-crops-hawaiis-big-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight Continues Over Moratorium of GMO Crops on Hawaii\u2019s Big Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #222222;\">On Aug. 1\u00a0<a style=\"color: #439241;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforfoodsafety.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Food Safety<\/a>\u00a0(CFS),\u00a0<a style=\"color: #439241;\" href=\"http:\/\/earthjustice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earthjustice<\/a>\u00a0and local farmers filed a\u00a0<a style=\"color: #439241;\" href=\"http:\/\/earthjustice.org\/sites\/default\/files\/files\/2%20Memo%20ISO_GMO_hawaii_Mot%20%20Intervene%208-1-2014%20-%20FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">motion to intervene<\/a>\u00a0in a lawsuit to defend the County of Hawaii\u2019s Ordinance 13-121, which places a moratorium on expanding GE crops on the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #439241;\" href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2013\/11\/21\/hawaii-bans-gmo-biotech-companies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Big Island<\/a>\u00a0and regulates the organisms to prevent harm from associated pesticide use and the contamination of non-GE crops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201cHawaii County, like every county, has the right to protect its farmers and native environments from genetically engineered crops,\u201d said George Kimbrell, CFS senior attorney. \u201cHaving GE-free zones is critical for the sustainable future of U.S. agriculture, and to protect Hawaii\u2019s unique ecosystems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">The lawsuit is driven largely by the Biotechnology Industry Organization, the trade association representing companies like Monsanto. It aims to open up the island for expansion of GE crop production by rolling back the 2013 ordinance. Due to Hawaii\u2019s climate, it has become a world center for experimental GE seed production.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/08\/05\/fight-over-moratorium-gmo-hawaii-big-island\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Aug. 1\u00a0Center for Food Safety\u00a0(CFS),\u00a0Earthjustice\u00a0and local farmers filed a\u00a0motion to intervene\u00a0in a lawsuit to defend the County of Hawaii\u2019s Ordinance 13-121, which places a moratorium on expanding GE crops on the\u00a0Big Island\u00a0and regulates the organisms to prevent harm from associated pesticide use and the contamination of non-GE crops. \u201cHawaii County, like every county, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-135373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-sicence-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}