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Hawaiian macadamia nut farmers face economic devastation due to false labeling of imported mac nuts as "Hawaiian" Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Enjoy your mac nuts! I hope to bring you more articles about health products from Hawaii, including noni, spirulina, kava kava and even a story about how the war on marijuana has caused an escalation in the use of meth on across the islands. Stay tuned to NewsTarget for more honest, independent reporting on topics like these. If you know of another good mac nut farm that consumers may want to contact, you may list their URL in the comments section of this article. (Please do!

A pound of raw mac nuts from the Big Island of Hawaii makes a great gift!) Remember the time difference if you call: Hawaii is two or three hours behind California time, so don't call these folks at five in the morning Hawaii time, please. I regret that I cannot list all the other deserving mac nut farmers in Hawaii. There are many others, but that is way beyond the scope of this article. Remember: I get paid nothing to recommend these companies, and I paid for all the travel on my own dime.

I give their operation five stars for honesty, ethics and outstanding mac nuts. Another operation worth supporting is Purdy's Macadamia Nut Farm, located on the small island of Molokai. I flew to Molokai and interviewed Purdy himself, who gives daily tours of his mac nut farm to visitors. You'll find his site at http://molokai-aloha.com/macnuts/ Neither one of these sites has any sort of sophisticated e-commerce system. You have to order the nuts by phone or mail. It's cumbersome, but it's worth it. Order several pounds at a time to make it worth your while.

That's why I say don't buy your mac nuts from a big, brand-name food company. Buy 'em directly from the people who grow them. My advice is the same for other specialty food items. Buy wine from the wineries, buy cacao from a farmer-owned cooperative, and seek out ways to get your food, clothing, personal care products and other items from a source that actually supports local farmers rather than driving them into bankruptcy.

In my opinion, Hawaiian macadamia nuts are tastier, more nutritious, and higher quality than the mass-produced nuts imported from Australia (perhaps Australian mac nuts are great in Australia because they keep the good ones for themselves!). There's (finally!) an effort underway to end the macadamia nut false labeling that's going on today. Hawaii House Bill 1628, sponsored by Rep. Bob Herkes, D-Puna-N. Kona, would require that mac nut packaging clearly state the percentage of nuts grown in Hawaii.

They've bought out many farms and now virtually monopolize the processing and packaging of mac nuts on the Big Island. Since big business is now dominating the macadamia nut industry, we can only expect the deceptions to get even worse. Big business often seems to be all about exploiting consumers and squeezing every last dime it can out of a resource in order to maximize profits, even if it means destroying an industry and the farmers that go along with it, and that's what we are seeing in the Hawaiian macadamia nut industry today.

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The quality of their cashews, mac nuts, pistachios and other ingredients are simply at a completely different level than the commodity nut products you might be familiar with. I'm especially impressed with their white mulberries. These are sun dried, wild harvested and absolutely delicious. There's probably no better tasting dried fruit on the planet. I've started adding them to my superfood smoothies as a natural fruit-based sweetener. They add a rich, sweet and superbly satisfying flavor to just about anything you might want to blend up and drink.

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Macadamia Nuts Macadamia nuts, or mac nuts for short, are tasty and crunchy, buttery-flavored nuts that are about the size of a marble when unshelled. Though native to Australia, macadamia nuts are closely associated with Hawaii, and for good reason: Hawaii is the largest exporter of macadamia nuts, providing 95 percent of the world's crop. Macadamia integrifolia is a fast-growing, regular-shaped, medium-sized tree with heavy, dark green foliage. Leaves develop in whorls of three, paired, or in fours. The leaves are rarely solitary.

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