As an Australian farmer, I find myself wondering if the professional protest group Friends of the Earth should consider renaming itself. I suggest “Foes of the Farmer.”
Barack Obama promised to bring change to the United States. Will this son of a Kenyan who is a former resident of Indonesia also bring change outside of America’s borders? Last summer, at his speech in Berlin, this self-proclaimed “citizen of the world” suggested that he would try.
Editor's Note: Guest columnist and 2007 Global Farmer to Farmer Roundtable participant Ken Kamiya has grown papaya for over 35 years in Hawaii. Who better to talk about what’s at stake for biotechnology as a tool benefitting Hawaiian agriculture.
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