Richard Ha writes:
In this letter to the Hawai‘i County Council, Bill Walter of W.H. Shipman expresses very well what we farmers are trying to articulate.
Councilwoman Wille points to a stack of testimony, taller than the stack opposing Bill 113, and says, "The people have spoken."
If we used "tonnage of food produced on the Big Island" as a means to compare, though, the stack representing the folks opposed to Bill 113 would be 10 times taller.
But they did not bother to listen to the farmers.
Click to listen to what the farmers producing food on this island think.
Very well said…I got a bit of chicken skin while reading Bill’s Letter!
Mahalo…ps. We’re now up to 97% of ALL agricultural production in Oposition to Bill 113!
Who says 1 voice cannot make a difference, we have one Farmer and Rancher at a time…
Mahalo Bill. Well said.
Unbelievable somebody would do something so stupid as to use one stack of paper being higher than the other one as some kind of decision indicator. True story, had a boss that would ask for a report. He would hold it in his hand, and based on what he thought the weight should be, would accept or reject it if it was too light or too heavy. And he was the boss, so he was always knew better.