Chickens eat them. The imported khalij pheasants eat them. The pigs eat them. Humans eat them. Explain like you are on trial for destroying human food supply, please.
Waiawi fruits are delicious and grow like weeds in wet Hawaii (you could buy the plants in the fancy garden section of a store in California and other places). I have made sweet and savory preserves with tham, as well as eaten them since childhood. They pump out fruit twice a year, and line the roads with easy to access plants. Recently, someone in hawaii agriculture government released a genetically engineered pest to disfigure the plant and the fruit, and slow growth for this 'invasive species', in a land where more than seventy percent of the food supply is shipped in (and the majority of the population is not rich, and many on government food assistance). With full transparency, please tell me the research laws this project was subject to, and the make up of the institutional review board that approved the project in advance of development. Who funded the project and was it just genetic engineering students looking to do something, or an actual corporate facility?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psidium_cattleyanum
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/12/23/us-wants-to-sell-gm-soya-and-corn-to-india-farmers-wary
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Yet it is difficult to pick the fruit in random areas because of the rampant imported fire ant problem. Please explain like you are a corporate whore who doesn't know when to stop destroying the ecosystem. Both of these things are massive issues and yet mosquitoes and also little fire ants have not yet been wiped out. Mosquitoes you can wax poetic about evolutionary biology and whatever else but the fire ants attack electrical systems so it is actually a financial bonus for places like home depot because you have to keep replacing electrical equipment unless you treat the ants with birth control that is also a bonus for business because it is a new lucrative business because the pests are intolerable. Find the fucking corporation that imported the ants and make them pay for complete eradication already. And Hawaii doesn't yet have malaria but if it were a risk I am sure more business would be developed to spray poison from planes like they do in Florida.
Why would underfunded fresh out of college agriculture inspectors be blamed for this when it would make logical sense to just limit the corporate whores? I mean, this isn't, like, rocket science. How are those corporate whores doing? Are they regulated yet?
I mean, like, don't the hawaiians categorize their food supply by which canoe group brought it in (dur). When do the canoes stop?
And/or can everything being imported be fumigated for every known ecosystem destroying pest, and also can we have a special institutional review board that governs corporate whores versus long term ecological protection? Haaay New Zealand
Let us not forget the importation of rat lungworm (rats were here but the mollusk was not)