Hawaii coffee farmers hope lawsuit settlements guarantee that Kona brew in your cup is real
Whenever Suzanne Shriner left Hawaii to visit the mainland, she didn’t have to taste the Kona coffee sold at Costco, Walmart and other big-box stores to conclude it was fake.
She just looked at the price of the beans — significantly less per pound than it cost to produce on her farm on the Big Island.
“There’s a lot of money in counterfeiting, and it happens in every industry, but we’re not nameless, faceless corporations,” she said. “We’re small farmers who are directly impacted by this.”
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