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Maui ‘ground zero’ for release of
billions of biopesticide lab-altered mosquitoes

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Posted By: Harlowe, 2/8/2024 2:59:27 PM

Up to 775,992,000 bacteria-infected mosquitoes could be released in Maui every week for the next 20 years, according to Hawaii Unites, an environmental advocacy group that last month lost its bid to require the state to conduct an environmental impact statement before allowing the controversial project to proceed.[Snip]According to Lia, the U.S. Department of the Interior provided more than $30 million for the avian malaria phase of the state’s plan. The project also has secured more than $14 million from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act enacted in 2021 and an additional $16 million through President Joe Biden’s 2023

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Advocates include Corteva Agriscience which is a “conglomerate formed via the merger of Dow AgroSciences and DuPont/Pioneer and owns many patents for CRISPR gene-editing technology.” The mosquitoes being used in the project “are not known to be genetically modified.” The bacterium Wolbachia used in the project is “safe for humans” according to the founder of the World Mosquito Program because “it thrives in honeybees, butterflies, moths, and fruit flies ... part of our food chain.”

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Reply 1 - Posted by: thefield 2/8/2024 3:41:06 PM (No. 1653481)
This site should have a contest on this one. " what possibly could go wrong"?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Dr. Constant 2/8/2024 4:17:29 PM (No. 1653513)
Been done for decades for mosquito control. It is a better solution than pesticides that just kill everything.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: MindMadeUp 2/8/2024 5:09:39 PM (No. 1653542)
You might say, I have just a little less trust in the Maui government after the way they handled the Lahaina fires.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Hermit_Crab 2/8/2024 5:40:32 PM (No. 1653558)
Way too many non-elites survived the fires.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 2/8/2024 6:09:16 PM (No. 1653590)
What could possibly go wrong? It's not like they could carry diseases or something...Oh, wait.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: ussjimmycarter 2/8/2024 7:00:13 PM (No. 1653625)
I sit on my deck at sunset and watch the bats fly back and forth chomping mosquitos! MN state bird! I hate them but don’t trust science any further than I can throw it! Idiots!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: danu 2/8/2024 8:24:23 PM (No. 1653706)
don't kill the white house fly.
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