Eighteen months ago, a woman bought a 9-acre organic farm on the big island of Hawaii. About a week ago, she called Greenpeace because she suspected that she had found GMO papaya trees on her new farm. Volunteers showed up on her farm in hazmat suits to "decontaminate" her farm of the GMO papaya trees.
The workers had to wear the hazmat suits in order to prevent any further spread of the GMO seeds, which ended up on the woman's farm via birds or wind from nearby farms that grow the SunUp variety of papayas. The SunUp and Rainbow varieties of papaya were created by the University of Hawaii and Cornell University in order to resist disease. Genetically engineered papayas are only grown in Hawaii.








