Unease in Hawaii’s Cornfields, NY Times article by Andrew Pollack

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/business/fight-over-genetically-altered-crops-flares-in-hawaii.html?pagewanted=all&_r=2&

Cory Lum for The New York Times

A research scientist at Pioneer in a Dupont Pioneer cornfield near Koloa, Kauai. The county is considering limits on growers.

By ANDREW POLLACK

Published: October 7, 2013

The state has become a hub for the development of genetically engineered corn and other crops that are sold to farmers around the globe. Monsanto and other seed companies have moved here en masse, and corn now sprouts on thousands of acres where sugar cane or pineapples once grew.

But activists opposed to biotech crops have joined with residents who say the corn farms expose them to dust and pesticides, and they are trying to drive the companies away, or at least rein them in.