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Surf Splendor

160 – Cyrus Sutton: Island Earth

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2017

⏱️ 88 minutes

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In today’s episode David chats with professional surfer turned filmmaker Cyrus Sutton about his new film “Island Earth”. The film takes a candid look at the agricultural industry in Hawaii and follows a young scientist’s struggle for truth between science and tradition as he enters an industry that many feel is threatening his homeland. Cyrus … Continue reading "160 – Cyrus Sutton: Island Earth" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the world's best papaya, man.

0:37.3

GMO papaya, rainbow papaya man g m o papaya rainbow papaya nothing better than this

0:43.3

can we back let's stop until they go are you guys with me this is the biggest in our mental issue of my generation and' generations. How we're going to feed the

0:56.6

world without destroying the planet we depend on. Kauai had three growing seasons. So right off

1:03.1

the bat, they're using three times the amount of pesticides they might use in Iowa or someplace like

1:07.8

that. The stuff they're growing here on 11,000 acre speeds and no one. No one eats

1:12.6

at all. I live in

1:14.9

the open air lab

1:16.8

that test food that

1:18.7

goes on your dinner table.

1:21.3

I'll say this on camera. I don't have a scientific

1:22.8

issue with GMO. Frost resistant strawberries

1:25.1

and drought resistant beans.

1:27.3

Oh man. We grow more food and feed the world.

1:30.3

Now, the whole GMO movement is about selling more of my chemical, not using less.

1:35.2

The industry is suing our government, saying no.

1:39.1

It's not that our products are safe.

1:41.3

It's that you don't have the power to force us to disclose to you what we're spraying.

1:47.3

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