Eating imported produce is like ingesting chemicals by the spoonfull. These shit hole countries have no where close to the regulations that the US does on pesticide use and many chemicals are freely applied that are completely illegal in the US. And since on 2% of the produce that is imported, is inspected, a lot never gets checked. I would never eat that shit. And it has nothing to do with the cost of EPA regs..it is the cost of labor pure and simple. I know farmers who have operations in South America and have went the organic route and are making huge bank importing it to the US.smackaholic wrote:As for the shelves being loaded with messican produce, I would think that has more to do with the fact that they can produce it cheaper thanks to their adapting our agricultural techniques without having to worry about the EPA nazis.
Haven't noticed much messican stuff up this way. Do get a lot of south american stuff in the winter though. Also get shitty apples this time of year from chile. why can't those spics grow macs down that way?
Our family had farm holdings in Northern CA in the Crescent City area. Lily bulbs. CA has fucked with business and agriculture so much, we ended up moving almost all the bulb production across the border into Curry County in southern Oregon near Brookings. Same fucking watershed and drainage, but we had fields that bisected the border and had to use different agricultural practices on them. It is hard enough to make it in agriculture these days, but onerous regulations, reporting and other fuck with you shit just made it impossible. When the father in law died, we liquidated the farm and ground and about 2.5 million dollars per year was taken out of the local economy down there.
CA is completely fucked and getting what they deserve.
