Friday, October 05, 2012

Washington bureaucrats to make our tomatoes less tasty, more expensive, and less plentiful?

Obama's Commerce Department is about to intervene in a dispute with Mexican and U.S. tomato growers. If the Department intervenes, your tomatoes will be less tasty, more expensive, less plentiful, and thousands of jobs will be lost.

An L.A. Times article points out that "Many in the pro-Mexican tomato camp suspect presidential election politics have had a role in the dispute, with the Floridians using their state's status as a repository of swing votes to put pressure on the Obama administration."

Read how Mexico might retaliate here:  http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/02/business/la-fi-mexico-tomato-war-20121003

1 comment:

Terri Wagner said...

Sigh I like tomatoes guess i need to learn how to grow them myself.