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
