• The right to choose • A few hearty bacteria • Quantum leap forward is here now • Reading between the lines The right to choose In regard to GMO labeling, I believe that above all the arguments for or
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Reading between the linesThe right to choose
In regard to GMO labeling, I believe that above all the arguments for or against the safety of GMO foods, there is a much more vital issue, and that is our right to choose.
We live in a democracy and we should have the right to choose what we buy based on the ingredients and detailed information provided for each product.
When GMO or any other ingredients are permitted by law to be censored from the product information for any reason, this is taking away our fundamental right to choose because we are not being fully informed and perhaps even deceived about the products we are buying.
More and more people are developing allergies to foods, some of them deadly. If companies are allowed to censor the information on their products then they are no only taking away our right to choose what we buy but they are also putting lives at risk.
It is the duty of our government, which represents us and the policies of democracy itself, to recognize these threats to our freedoms no matter where they may crop up.
By allowing GMO ingredients to be censored from product labels, we are making way for other ingredients to be censored as well and this presents risks to both personal freedom and physical health.
Shastin Snyder, Kilauea
A few hearty bacteria
Seven billion humans are now residing on Earth. The only two species on Earth increasing are humans and insects. Every other life form is declining.
I remember from microbiology class studying the life cycle of bacteria cultures in a petri dish and graphing it on a chart. The flat phase at the beginning represented the slow growth phase as the bacteria was getting started.
The abundance of food and space lead to the rapid growth spurt where the bacteria began to rapidly spike upward in population which is represented by the line spiking upward nearly vertical to the top of the graph.
The leveling off of the graph at the top represents the point at which there is just enough food and space for the now crowded dish to sustain the maximum possible bacteria in the finite space provided for the miniature society.
As the bacteria continue to expand without the higher level of consciousness required to recognize their impending doom they simply run out of food and literally poison themselves in their own waste and enter the “death phase” represented by the straight line down to the bottom of the graph.
A few hearty bacteria begin to restart the cycle again but it struck me profoundly how similar this graph matched the pattern of human population growth on petri dish Earth.
Jason Nichols, Koloa
Quantum leap forward is here now
Thanks, Robert, for expressing a mind-stretching concept in a manner that can be absorbed (“Quantum leap forward is coming soon,” Letters, Nov. 29).
The concept is demonstrated everyday by Washington, D.C., politicians clutching to the past.
One can no longer live in the present applying the visions of attachments to the past and perceived future.
The rapidity of change makes that a disaster for patterns no longer apply in this current state of unprecedented happenings.
It requires one to respond rather then react. What the Buddhist call rigpa. Being present in the now.
Enjoy.
Ray Holmes, Kapa‘a
Reading between the lines
As I read the title and the letter posted in your editorial section Tuesday by Robert from Koloa, titled “Quantum leap coming soon,” my mind almost couldn’t avoid making a loose connection between his editorial and the prominent sign above the church next to the highway in ‘Oma‘o which reads “Jesus Coming Soon.”
My question is to the author, Koloa Robert: Are you somehow linking the emergence of a new global-consciousness with the re-emergence of Christ-consciousness?
In other words, does this “quantum leap” you were referring to have anything to do with loving everyone and everything (i.e. Christ-consciousness), rather than loving and “saving” only the chosen few, while excluding the rest (heathen, gentile, infidel, subhuman, 99 percent), or are you suggesting that the “Occupy” movements protesting against the corrupt corporate/government 1 percent elite who control most of the wealth and make most of the important decisions in the world, will finally allow the 99 percent a voice in restoring the “rule of law”?
Or, am I just trying to oversimplify and read between the lines?
Amy Austin, Kalaheo
