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Pesticide & GMO companies spend big to influence politics in Hawaii

2014-06-20 13:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Hawaii has become "ground zero" in the controversy over genetically modified crops and pesticides. With the seed crop industry (including conventional as well as GMO crops) reaping $146.3 million a year in sales resulting from its activities in Hawaii, the out-of-state pesticide and GMO firms Syngenta, Monsanto, DuPont Pioneer, Dow Chemical, BASF, and Bayer CropScience have brought substantial sums of corporate cash into the state`s relatively small political arena. Chemical conglomerates retaliate...

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