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Aloha,

As I mentioned above my wife and I live in Captain Cook, South Kona District, on the Big Island of Hawaii. We own and operate a 7 acre Kona coffee farm that has been a coffee farm for 150 years. We have coffee trees that are 100 plus years old.

We are coming to the end of the 2007 harvest. Most likely our final round of picking will be in 7-10 days as the last of 2-3000 pound of cherry ripens. The total harvest this year will be around 30,000 pounds of cherry.

Mahalo,

Konapage

At 8:55am on December 7th, 2007, sosulhae said…: I like kona^^

At 11:24am on December 7th, 2007, Konapage said…: Aloha,

If you ever visit Kona please contact me and come to visit our farm. We love to give tours and have guests. Some even stay on our farm.

At 9:59pm on January 18th, 2008, Konapage said…: Aloha,

Well the legislative season is upon us again in Hawaii so citizens
beware!

Seriously though this particular matter has to do with Kona coffee.

We ask you to support Kona coffee by going to this web address
http://www.petitiononline.com/75Kona/petition.html and signing the
petition.

If passed the new law will mandate that in order to use the "Kona"
name on the label that a coffee must contain a minimum of 75% Kona
coffee. Truly this is just a start because we cannot get a 100%
requirement passed by the legislature. The blenders are too large a
powerful and contribute too much money to the politicians to win that
war this time.

In fact the current law allows as little as 10% Kona coffee to be
present in a blend and it can still say Kona on the label. I know with
certainty that some blenders on the mainland ignore even this as they
have told me directly. This costs Kona coffee farmers, the state of
Hawaii lots of money and reflects very poorly on 100% Kona coffee!

Additionally, did you know that any commercial quantity of green beans
imported into Hawaii or the mainland for roasting from other countries
are fumigated with a known cancer causing chemical that is banned from
use with other foods?????????????

There's more! What is the other plus 90% of the coffee contained in
the Kona blend coffee? No one knows for certain since there is no
truth in labeling informing the consumer where that coffee came
from!!!!!!!! It could be from Australia, Antartica, Greenland, Mexico,
Saudi Arabia, Iraq, damn near anywhere!!!!!!! It could be the dregs of
the dregs but the manufacturer(s) won't tell you! I guess he is really
not too proud of his product.

Your support of this petition is greatly appreciated. There is also
some legislation occurring in the Federal legislature that may solve
the truth in labeling law and I will post on that as information
becomes available.

Mahalo,

Page

KCFA and KCC member

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