<\/object><\/p>\nKamehameha Schools, one of Hawaii’s largest landowners, leases much of its land to Monsanto. Monsanto’s pesticides frequently drift onto neighboring towns, and the GMO seeds blow with the wind across neighboring properties, contaminating real farms. Kamehameha Schools is part of one of the biggest legacy foundations in the state, and its charter states that it is supposed to look after the needs of citizens of Hawaiian ancestry.<\/p>\n
According to the film, Kamehameha Schools would live up to its charter by revoking the leases it gives Monsanto and begin turning that land over to local farmers. Rehabilitation of the land will take years, as the company’s toxic farming practices have left soils bereft of nutrients, microfauna and microflora, and for productivity, are completely chemically dependent.<\/p>\n
Local farms might not be able to pay the same rate to Kamehameha Schools for that land, but if local residents were to sue for chemical contamination and illnesses that arise from the drifting pesticides from Monsanto’s operations, Liz Dunne, environmental attorney, says that Kamehameha Schools could absolutely be included in the lawsuit, as the landowner of record.<\/p>\n
Leasing lands to Monsanto might just be too risky, making the economics of local food much more attractive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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