On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 9:43:46 AM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
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> >Trouble is, the soil buildup of pesticide residues, the fact that many TGYs
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> > are blends from different farms, plus pesticides accumulate in clay soil,
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> >and tea plants have natural tendency to absorb nutrients heavily from the
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> >soil - all of those factors meant disaster for TGY market.
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> >In China, even much of the domestic market is afraid to drink TGY. It's also
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> >perceived as hurting the stomach - so it's a tea not looked upon favorably
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> >now.
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> The domestic market is starting to worry about contaminated and fake foods,
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> just like happened in the US a century or so ago. I'm not sure that they have
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> the power to have anything done about it.
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> They're still growing guanyin tea in Taiwan, though, and some of it is
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> excellent.
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> --scott
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> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Well, we do have the power not to buy- don't we? Toci