She's baaack, and it's not good news for science literacy, farmers and food-minded Hawaiians. I'm referring to Vandana Shiva, the Indian anti-GMO crusader who kicked off a five-day blitz through Hawaii with a talk-and-music fest at the Capitol Building on Wednesday....
Like it or not, our seafood increasingly originates not in the deep ocean but on fish farms hugging the coasts. Aquaculture already supplies about half of the world's seafood, and global production is going to have to more than double by 2050 to meet demand, according...
It was a sunny and picturesque afternoon on Monsanto’s 2300-acre grow-out station in Kunia. The Waianae mountain range loomed above and Pearl Harbor’s west loch sprawled out past the H-1 below. Taylor Kellerman, Kailua born-and-raised Operations Lead at Monsanto, wore...
Despite GMO supporters' claims in Hawaii, the “Chemical Agriculture Age” is not essential to producing enough food for all the planet's inhabitants. A recent opinion piece in the Maui News blog opposing organic agriculture and in support of biotech GE...
Quality Controls Hawaii Imports Ball Park 90% Of Its Food With the islands importing such a large percentage of its' food it isn't much of a surprise that the farmers' market can be challenge when seeking out locally produced organic, or beyond organic, produce,...
Burgers made completely from scratch with specifically sourced, organic ingredients sounds like a simple enough idea, but few have the stamina, like Pono Burger’s Chef Makani Gerardi, to see this concept through so completely — especially when the concept is spread...
