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You Can’t Get on a Canoe Without a Real Plan
As I was looking at my dad’s papaya seedlings the other day, it really made me realize how things in nature are a reflection of our own lives in many ways. Every single papaya came from a...
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The Future of Hawaii Can’t Rest in a Protest
Once again, the anti-TMT, anti-GMO, anti-everything folks are going to protest yet again. This time, their groups have united to “protect” Hawaii. They have decided to “malama the aina” and...
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Think About It: Harvard School of Public Health and GMOs
Someone recently posted a link from a website called the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard University School of Public Health. I cannot believe that such a prestigious medical...
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The Personal Price of the Anti-GMO to Me: $1695
I’ve known for some time that the Babes Against Biotech ring leader, Nomi Carmona, bought my domain name some time ago. She created an anti-Monsanto screed calling me the GMO papaya princess. I...
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When Science is Silenced
Last week was science week at the Cornell Alliance for Science Global Leadership Fellowship Program. I had a chance to get some great education on entomology, crop science, animal science, and plant...
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The Pay It Forward Shill
My time here in Cornell has been somewhat of an emotional roller coaster ride, but not in a bad way. I came really excited to meet fellow allies who have been affected by the anti-GMO activism...
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The Peace from Food
Two things happened the other day that has really struck me. In my GMO debate class, Dr. Tony Shelton, an entomologist, put this quote up on one of his lecture slides. There can be no peace in the...
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The Greatest Global Deception is the Deprivation of Others
Everyday while chatting with Cornell Alliance for Science fellows, I’m starting to realize a very peculiar pattern of intentional misinformation throughout the world. The activists are quite skillful...
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The Life of the Land
The new year is right around the corner and I am hoping that this year will be a better year than the last. With what I’ve learned at Cornell during my Alliance for Science fellowship, I have even...
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The Truth About Pesticides in Paradise
I want to know the truth about the issue of the pesticide complaints in Hawaii so I decided to review the raw data myself to see. I made a request in the interest of public information to the Hawaii...
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Protect the Keiki and Kupuna
I do a lot of training of new interns at work and have noticed a very disturbing trend. I rarely see them asking how to best prepare for it prior to starting. I somehow get the feeling that I’m...
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Stolen Future
The last few days I’ve been busy speaking to people and networking in hopes of seeing real, tangible change in Hawaii. Granted, I’ve had to take vacation days to do this because I don’t get any money...
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Cotton and Sheep
This past weekend was the Hawaii State Farm Fair at Kualoa Ranch. Usually, my dad’s farm has a booth there where we sample papayas. However, we’ve been sold out the last several weeks so we aren’t...
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A Passion for Papaya is Not Propaganda
Dr. Marion Nestle referred to the film Food Evolution as “propaganda” and the other activists like Zen Honeycutt and the Food Babe are jumping onboard. This implies that the content was misleading,...
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