Lorlrin Pang, M.D. B.S. Chemistry, Princeton, MPH, Tulane, and MD, Tulane

Endocrinologist (Diabetes and Hormones Specialist), Genetic Expert and Medical Researcher, Consultant to WHO, Consultant to the United States Congress, Maui District County Health Officer. He participates and speaks as a private citizen.

Seven Years ago I was called to Molokai because the children next to the GMO fields were sick. I couldn’t figure out was going on and I didn’t think about or even know how much pesticides they were using. Every school, even ones that were far away had children who were getting sick.

Five years ago I went to West Kauai in Waimea, three different times because the children repeatedly got sick after spraying. They would spray and the children quickly got sick. Then I started to realize that these companies growing and testing GMOs are using a lot of chemical pesticides.

For my 25 years with the World Health Organization, my job was to plan and design the evaluation of drugs; vaccines and diagnostics. I currently review research for the US Congress.

In drugs and chemicals we have one basic principle. When you have two drugs that have been studied and are known and you combine them, all heck could break loose. Either drug could get stronger or weaker or make something total new. It could be anything, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Both drugs could be totally safe by themselves, but when you combine them either one could become more toxic or something new could occur altogether. In other words, all kinds of weird stuff can happen. We repeatedly see this all the time in pharmaceuticals. This is my background.

Well we’re supposed to apply this principle to pesticides. The industries applying these pesticides may not intend to have these combinations happen, but they do happen.

In normal agriculture you might expect 7 or so chemical pesticides being used. In these GMO fields they are using as many as 80 different chemicals and no one knows what happens when they mix in the fields or drift into the environment and combine.

These combinations of chemicals need to be understood and tested for. If we don’t do it, the results can be devastating.