First I will respond to your response, you said, "This is completely immature and asinine."
I agree with you it is, when you look at how you can say one thing and then say another and then go back and forth that is exactly how you described my actions.
When you say something that is actually wrong and you are corrected, you say that you are right and the other person is wrong, for example.
You said Isa is a kava that the Hawaiians love, I said that was not true and sited some reference's as to why what I was saying was right, you disregarded this and said you have family and friends that say other wise.
It is true that there are people that like Isa, you are one of them, that is your choice, I have never had a problems with peoples choice of buying what ever kava they want but I did have a problem with kava being sold as Noble and it actually has some tudei inside or it might be all tudei.
The reason I said you were "trouble making" and "that you like to do it" is because that is how it seems, and this is not the first time you have brought this up and getting all kinds of responses from many different members, most of them are on the do not drink tudei side but would like to make sure that the kava they buy is what they expect to get, meaning Noble or Tudei.
Then you mention how you have done so much for almost 20 years now for the kava community and I do not deny that, you have done a lot for the kava community, I don't think that was ever in doubt from any of the member, but I am speaking for myself right now.
You also talked about how I seem to get an unfair edge somehow and that I am only a vendor.
I have to tell you that I have been involved with kava since I was a teenager, I have been told stories from my grandmother how she use to prepare her dads kava, that's family history.
I started drinking kava on a regular basis in 1985, I have been growing is since 1987, I have been helping in research with kava since 1993, I am the President of the Hawaii Awa Council and have been for over 15 years, before I was there president I was the vise president, before I was vise president I was a director at large. I have tought about Hawaiian kava at a Hawaiian immersion school in Keaau Hawaii. Another unique thing is that I know and correspond with just about every kava expert there is. I can go on and on but I will stop there While you do have experience with kava it is clear who has more.
You then imply how I am making so much money just because all the pacific countries have banned tudei kava, you make it seem like I have some unfair advantage with what I am doing.
All i am doing is growing great kava and educating people with the most update information.
I am not stopping anyone from starting there own farm here and growing Hawaiian kava or even tudei, that is up to them, I even encourage people to grow Hawaiian kava and start Hawaiian kava farms.
The fact that Hawaiian kava is so good and noble is because it is obvious that the early settlers brought only the best with them on the canoes as space was limited, we also know that Hawaii was the last stop of the migration of kava so we can expect Hawaii to have the best of what the early settlers to Hawaii had to choose from, they did not bring tudei to Hawaii, the did not bring it to Fiji nor to Tonga nor to Samoa nor to pohnpei.
It has always been my intention to offer kava lovers a choice, just because my kava is so good does not mean that I nor TK is out to get the competition.
A top vendor even came on and said that it was not as bad as you say it is when you say so many vendor are going out of business because of TK or even me.
It is always up to the customer as to weather or not they are going to buy my kava and buy it again and again or got some other kava or even a combo of both, there IS a lot of good kava out there, there is also a lot of bad kava out there, thus the purpose of TK.
I have nothing to loose, I am not hurt or upset, you hit no nerve, the truth coming out? Remember the truth is you are a kava reviewer with almost 20 years experience, you think because I never did reviews online means I have never got together with kava leaders and others in the kava community and talked about the effects of different kava, you should here what they have to say about Isa. Also I have been doing that for many more years than you.
Then you say I am just a kava seller, I am much more than that and that is clear and well known and I know what I am talking about because I stay on the top of the kava scene, an example might be when you asked where Johnathan Yee was. Well when my daughter and I were talking to him at the 2015 KAVACON he told us that he only has a small place and his kava does not grow that big, I know how much land it takes to supply a kava business, also he also does it in his spare time not full time, he has a place close by me but his kava all died there because of phoma and neglect since he lives on Oahu. I have to say that my daughter was surprised when he told us he can get 15 pounds from a mature kava of say 3 years old because she knows and has seen and helped harvest and process my kava that is over 150 pounds in 4 years. So I guess ya, now my cover is blown, now people know the truth.
I can go on and on and others can go on but I am going to stop here.
Ma,i,ai Keia,ia"oia noi O" ole,pa"a Pepa hale.
aloha nui loa.
Chris
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