I'm really neutral on this method and I don't see it any different than a lot of things with maple production or other agricultural changes. I just don't see how anyone who runs miles of tubing into the woods and drills holes into perfectly good trees and then turns on a vacuum can say that doing something sustainable in a field in any more less ethical than what they are doing. What's wrong with moving out of the woods and into fields like lots of other food products?

One of the first questions I often hear is - "doesn't that hurt the tree"? Wouldn't it be nice to be able to tell them that the woods are now left alone and I only tap what's in my field? If people have problems with that, they should stop eating because there's probably a lot of things in agriculture that would disturb them.