Maui Mayor: Proposed Moratorium on GM Crops is Impractical

Implementing a moratorium on biotech crops is impractical, says Maui, Hawaii Mayor Alan Arakawa. The proposed moratorium will disallow cultivation and testing of biotech crops until developers complete environmental and public health studies to prove safety. According to Arakawa, if the moratorium is approved in the November 4 election, the measure would be "almost impossible and impractical to be able to administer."

"It's going to require the county to become very invasive in that we're going to have to go to almost every single person's house, (inspect) every tree that's there, be able to identify in our forests, in our pastures, all the potentially infested GMO products and somehow be able to control it," said Arakawa during a panel discussion with mayoral, gubernatorial and county council candidates. Arakawa did not make a formal stance on biotech, but he said that he does not believe that biotech crops are harmful.

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