I sent a letter to the Representatives explaining how our family farm has been affected by the fear mongering created by the organic industry lobbyist, Ashley Lukens.  The people she propagandizes tends to not think about the issues and automatically jump to conclusions that they are being "poisoned" by farmers like my dad, who has been in business for over 45 years.  The fear she creates makes people hysterical to the point of destroying our trees.  Does she care about that? She and her followers do not give a hoot about the consequences of their actions.

Lukens tried to attend the Kahaluu Neighborhood Board to bring fear against farms.  There's no seed farms there but there are small farmers.  She did her spiel that was so convincing but never expected to face the real farmers who showed up to question her "data." Instead of trying to work with us on what's truth, she left in a hurry.  Her employer has no real investment in farms so they care nothing about Hawaii agriculture.