Politics of Subsistence Living

After leaving health and social services as a means for gainful
income in 2006, Yukie Yamada lived and worked in rural areas
of Maui on properties designated "ag" properties.

A few of the property owners were able to establish a life apart
from the usual material trappings associated with land ownership.
Some of these property owners are absolutely of sound mind in
this choice, however, life in the jungle is hardly life in paradise.

With hostile policy enforcement tactics by the County of Maui
and speculation by the sort of folks who like to raise property
value because they are the only ones who could afford them,
these rural areas are the target of many drug/terror crimes.

Yukie found living and working on these lands a life of health
and spirit. Yet cultivating food on such properties was even
more harrowing to her safety than working in health and social
services where fraud, waste and abuse are a normalized way
of being. There is far too much profit for attorneys, property
owners, criminal defendants to cover-up crimes against those
who are committed to living drug-free.

OPERATION ROTTEN TOMATO: Fraud in the Food Industry

Please refer to the FBI news service press release on OPERATION ROTTEN TOMATO.
Price-fixing, racketeering and bribery are the charges on SK Foods in California. Now that
the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been at it recently, with their fingers in many
investigations with the FBI and Federal Trade Commission. Yay for all those who want
a more transparent food industry. Remember what they did for alcohol drinkers during
the days when alcohol was contraband?

Now - all y'all have to do is build a political, economic, social platform that generates sig-
nificant interest and motives for the public sector, government and commercial news
groups while the ignorance, idiocy and indifference of the nintendo library and what-
should-the-color-of-my-hair-be-this-week crowd searches for the next best sale on cell
phones. Whoa! Go to it, folks! It may change your relationship to food and eating.

Growing food is not as easy as it seems. In Hawaii, many grew up with fruit trees and a
few vegetable favorites in their yards, but cultivation of sustainable, quality food is a very
tiresome, burdensome and often times harrowing activity due to competitive stakeholders
in the corporate mono-food industry of Hawaii.

The only thing to say about Hawaii's dying sugar industry, is that they did achieve a small
margin of sustainability all by their lonesome by using fermented cane for bagasse energy.
See their internet site for more on this isolated hype.