Convening in Hawai‘i bolsters peoples’ movement against the Big 6 People in Hawai‘i are standing up to agricultural biotech giants Monsanto, Syngenta, Dow, DuPont-Pioneer and BASF. These transnational pesticide and seed corporations own more than 1,000 genetically engineered seed test plots across the islands—more than anywhere else in the world. Their pesticide-intensive experiments have had serious consequences, such as repeated pesticide drift onto children and teachers at Waimea Middle School on Kaua‘i.
